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Speaker 2: Hey, high ologites. So this is the very very first
Speaker 2: minisode of ologies. I thought, why don't I toss you
Speaker 2: a little one now we can catch up on Horology, Primatology, Gemology.
Speaker 2: Maybe you're an episode behind and you just want a
Speaker 2: short one. So here's the deal. It's a million degrees
Speaker 2: and it's October and I'm pissed about it. I have
Speaker 2: scarves I can't wear. It's hot. I want it to
Speaker 2: feel like Halloween, and I'm getting really new nostalgic and
Speaker 2: I'm having this hunger for autumn. So I decided to
Speaker 2: look up some of the ologies associated with autumn, and
Speaker 2: I thought i'd tell you about them because they're crazy. Okay,
Speaker 2: you're ready, So let's just call this ologies October Cool
Speaker 2: October Ologies pretty soon pretty sot so. So the first
Speaker 2: ology I want to tell you about cucurbatology. Q. Curbatology
Speaker 2: is the study You're so not even ready for this.
Speaker 2: This is so awesome. Cue crebatology, the study of pumpkins
Speaker 2: and gourds. This is a real thing. I was researching
Speaker 2: a little bit because I was like, I don't know
Speaker 2: anything about cucurb turns out jack o lanterns in Ireland?
Speaker 2: Do you know that they used to be made out
Speaker 2: of hollowed out turnips? Like, I don't know what kind
Speaker 2: of elbow grease it takes to holler out a turnip,
Speaker 2: but I'm not interested. Also, I looked at pictures of them.
Speaker 2: Damn they look like mummy babies. They're horrifying. They're so
Speaker 2: much more scary than pumpkins, very unpleasant. I did look
Speaker 2: up some advice from a cue curbatologist. They say, hey,
Speaker 2: you're gonna carve a pumpkin. You don't want it to rot.
Speaker 2: Why don't you spray that thing with a weak mix
Speaker 2: of bleach and water stop that mold? Right? And it's
Speaker 2: tracks you, guys. Advice from a cue curbatologist. Pumpkins and gords.
Speaker 2: What else says fall to me than zombies and tomo pathology?
Speaker 2: What the hell's at well, it's when insects becomes zombies.
Speaker 2: People love zombies. I can't even look at someone in
Speaker 2: zombie makeup without being really actually afraid. I don't know,
Speaker 2: I don't understand. My ra sees someone who is like
Speaker 2: an extra in a movie wearing prosthetics and I'm like, no,
Speaker 2: that's a real dead person. But in the insect world,
Speaker 2: there's this one fungus zombie maker called cordyce EPs, and
Speaker 2: it infests carpenter ant colonies. And what happens is an
Speaker 2: ant gets a spore on it gets infected by this fungus,
Speaker 2: and then the fungus takes over its behavior and essentially
Speaker 2: leads it to crawl up a branch, hop on a leaf,
Speaker 2: which it never does. It never does this, and then
Speaker 2: use its jaws to bite on the leaf. There it
Speaker 2: dies with a death clench onto a leaf, and then
Speaker 2: a stalk a fungus grows out of the ants dome
Speaker 2: like a fungal antenna, and then it rains spores down
Speaker 2: onto all of the ant's friends and family, like like
Speaker 2: a fungus bomb at your family reunion. It's the worst anyway,
Speaker 2: that Aunt wouldn't have done that were it not possessed
Speaker 2: by a fungus zombie, so deal with that. Another good
Speaker 2: October type of ology. I don't know, demonology heard of it.
Speaker 2: So demonology is a thing people study demons. And I
Speaker 2: came across one person who says she is a forensic
Speaker 2: psychologist who specializes in violent crime. She has a PhD
Speaker 2: in forensic psychology, a master's in educational psychology, and a
Speaker 2: bachelor's in personality and religion. She literally wrote the book
Speaker 2: on demonology, and then she wrote a follow up book
Speaker 2: called demonology too, of course, in differentiating medical illnesses from
Speaker 2: spiritual possession. I checked on her Twitter to see what's
Speaker 2: on her mind, and her account had been suspended, so
Speaker 2: I don't know, maybe demon hacked it. Another good ology
Speaker 2: for this time of year. Chiropterology. Chiropterology, So this comes
Speaker 2: from Cairo, hand in taro wing, so handwing. This is
Speaker 2: a study of bats. And you know, there's a thousand
Speaker 2: species of bats, but only three of them are vampire bats.
Speaker 2: So the rest of the bats are like, I just
Speaker 2: want to eat mosquitos or fruit, and I have such
Speaker 2: a terrible reputation. Vampire bats pretty cool. There's this one
Speaker 2: called a white winged vampire bat lives in South America,
Speaker 2: prefers the blood of birds if given a choice, and
Speaker 2: in one study they find out that they worked in pairs.
Speaker 2: They crawl like spiders across the floor undetected, and then
Speaker 2: one of them nuzzles up to a chicken breast and
Speaker 2: pretends to beat its baby, and the checken's like, oh
Speaker 2: huh a and starts to incubate it, while the other
Speaker 2: one pierces its foot and feeds on the fresh blood.
Speaker 2: And before you're like, dude, that's not cool, one of
Speaker 2: them's boguarding a live chicken foot and the others doing
Speaker 2: all the ruse work. Well, some species of vampire bats,
Speaker 2: and I'm not sure if it's this one, but either way,
Speaker 2: we'll feed on blood and then they'll go back to
Speaker 2: their friends and they'll barf it up and be like,
Speaker 2: does they want some of this? I think that's very nice. Now,
Speaker 2: the ultimate autumno ology phenology, this is the changing of
Speaker 2: the seasons, So spring phenology, you're studying buds, daffodils, shoots,
Speaker 2: grasses the like. Fall phonology the changing of the leaves
Speaker 2: and what changes the leaf color? Well, they're really orange
Speaker 2: and yellow underneath, but all the chlorophyll that they need
Speaker 2: in the summer turn some green, so the chlorophyll dissipates.
Speaker 2: The leaves turned these beautiful orange and yellow colors. This
Speaker 2: year though, it's been really warm, so the chlorophyll is
Speaker 2: breaking down kind of slower than usual. But apparently it's
Speaker 2: supposed to cool down in November. They do say that
Speaker 2: twenty seventeen is currently on pace to be the second
Speaker 2: hottest year on record. When was the first, like in
Speaker 2: the eighteen hundreds? No, no, it was twenty sixteen, So whatever.
Speaker 2: Moral the story asks smart people dumb questions before we
Speaker 2: all bake to death. Speaking of death, very special episode
Speaker 2: of Ologies comes out on Halloween, Thanatology Study of Death
Speaker 2: and Dying. Weirdly, it was one of the most uplifting
Speaker 2: conversations I've had in my live life. Do come back
Speaker 2: next week on Halloween for Thanatology. Meanwhile, thank you so
Speaker 2: much to everyone who's rating and reviewing and subscribing. I
Speaker 2: read your reviews. I'm a creep like that. I appreciate
Speaker 2: every one of them. And because of that, you guys
Speaker 2: have kept this in the top twenty five science podcasts
Speaker 2: for the last month, which is so huge, So thank
Speaker 2: you to all of the ologites over in Patreon who
Speaker 2: are supporting the show and making it possible, and then
Speaker 2: the Facebook Ologies podcast group. Also, if you're looking for
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Speaker 2: has you quite literally covered. There's shirts and tots and
Speaker 2: mugs and baby onesies and we just put up just
Speaker 2: put up today as I record this, enamel pins, So
Speaker 2: there's ology pins with different ologies on that and they're
Speaker 2: so dope and they're limited editions, so you're probably gonna
Speaker 2: want to get them quick. So come back next week
Speaker 2: and we'll address the hallyween spookiness of death. And also
Speaker 2: I promise you will leave feeling more badass than you
Speaker 2: have in a while, So go romp in the sprinklers
Speaker 2: or some leaves depending on the weather. We'll see you
Speaker 2: back here next week for thanatology.
Speaker 3: Pacodermatology, homology, crypto zoology, lithology, technology, meteorology, paratology, anthology, seriology, elinology.
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