Smologies #10: BODY HEAT with Dr. Shane Campbell-Staton

Thermophysiologist, UCLA professor and host of The Biology of Superheroes podcast, Dr. Shane Campbell-Staton. (Photo: Ben Gebo, Harvard University Press)

Bundle up for a smol, classroom-friendly episode with Princeton University evolutionary biologist and Thermophysiologist Dr. Shane Campbell-Staton. You’ll learn about everything from heat tolerance to frostbite, anti-freeze woodfrogs to icy alligators, why some people run hot, why your toes run cold, how a fever is like a honeybee, how geography influences our body composition, how mammoths got big, and why you should grab your hat before running out the door. Also: what counts as “balmy” in Alaska.

The uncut, *adult* version of Thermophysiology is up at alieward.com/ologies/thermophysiology

Listen to this Smologies episode on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get podcasts.

Full, uncut, NSFW version of Thermophysiology plus research links

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Here is Dr. Campbell-Staton’s website and Twitter

Listen to his podcast The Biology of Super Heroes

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