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[/] VIDEOS /// PODCAST /// BLOG /// STORE Podcast Syphilis Through The Ages Venture into a past of brutally-disfiguring venereal disease and madness… Listen Now Video The Future of the Kardashev Scale: Part 2 Explore the mind-blowing power of the future… Watch Now Blog Post Anti-Syphilis Posters & the Monstrous Feminine Did anti-syphilis posters of yesteryear blame females for the disease? Judge for yourself… Read Now Podcast Syphilis: The Great Imitator Explore the science behind this destructive and elusive venereal disease… Listen Now Video Costume Tips for Conventions – Information Elevator Board the Information Elevator, suit up and prep for that con… Watch Now Blog Post Monster of the Week: The Werewolf Let’s consider the werewolf from the standpoint of science, salamanders and cannibal morphs… Read Now Classic STBYM The Penis Episode, Part One Get your giggles out, then listen in for a two-part discussion on the evolution of the human penis… Listen Now THE RADAR STBYM Videos Video Check out the latest Stuff to Blow Your Mind videos here. Watch Now The STBYM Podcast Podcast Listen to the latest episodes of the Stuff to Blow Your Mind podcast. Listen Now Meet Your Hosts About Us Meet Julie and Robert, the hosts of Stuff to Blow Your Mind. Read Now The STBYM Blog blog Read the latest posts from the Stuff to Blow Your Mind blog. 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Watch Now All Topics 10 Sci-Fi VHS Boxes that Blew My Mind » aliens » animals » art » Artatomical » Art Spotlight » Best of 2012 » biology » cats » Christmas » climate change » death » drugs » evolution » galleries » global warming » Halloween » hell » history » horror » mind-blowing video » Monster of the Week » monsters » music » NASA » neurology » neuroscience » parasites » religion » religion and science » retrofuturism » robotics » robots » sci-fi » science » science news » sex » solar power » space » space music » STBYM-best-of-2010 » STBYM Best of 2011 » STBYM Interview » STBYM movie review » STBYM Roundup » August 28, 2014 Art Spotlight: Jan van Eyck’s Eye of God What do you see when you look at this painting? What, indeed, seems to be looking back at you? This 1434 portrait of Giovanni di Nicolao Arnolfini and his wife stands as an incredible example of Renaissance art — and … Read more › August 27, 2014 Anti-Syphilis Posters and the Monstrous Feminine It’s a common trope throughout humanity’s patriarchal history: The otherness of woman is not only alien and unknowable but ultimately the stuff of monstrosity. We see it in myth cycles, folklore, witchcraft persecution and various interpretations of human reproduction. Rather … Read more › August 27, 2014 Artificial Noses and the Ravages of Syphilis As we discuss in our podcast episode “Syphilis Through the Ages,” the disfiguring disease forced many Europeans to hide their bald spots and sunken, decaying noses. And so powdered wigs became increasingly popular, as did codpieces, merkins and false noses … Read more › August 26, 2014 Artatomical: Rembrandt’s Portrait of de Lairesse As mentioned in our podcast episode “Syphilis Through the Ages,” the pox plagued Europeans for centuries with profound cultural ramifications. Yet some of the afflicted took a level of hedonistic pride in their illness, or at least faced it with … Read more › August 26, 2014 How Inventive: The Shower Hood How inventive! Here we see Munich actress Inge Marschall demonstrating the use of the shower-hood, a 1970 German invention to protect hair and make-up in the shower. It’s essentially a shower cap for your entire head and it seems strange … Read more › August 25, 2014 Monster of the Week: The Werewolf Ah, how have we overlooked the werewolf for so long? I think we can blame the moon. The lycanthropic human is slave to the lunar cycle — or so we’ve been told. When the full moon hangs fat in the … Read more › August 25, 2014 Tertiary Syphilis Invades your Television It’s syphilis week at Stuff to Blow Your Mind. That’s right, both this week’s podcast episodes explore the fascinating science, culture and history of this most monstrous of venereal diseases. Plus, in addition to last week’s Monster of the Week … Read more › August 22, 2014 Artatomical: Matthias Grünewald’s Diseased Christ The Isenheim Altarpiece of German Renissance painter Matthias Grünewald (1470 – 1528) is a powerful work of religious art. It’s also about as morbid and apocalyptic a vision of the Christian faith as you could ask for, thoroughly grounding our fleshly … Read more › August 21, 2014 How Inventive: The Artificial Mommy Breast How inventive! Here we see a 1963 photo of the next big thing infant sleep aids: the artificial breast with built-in heartbeat from the Japanese Majima company. As far as I can tell, this technology didn’t quite catch on. Amazon … Read more › August 18, 2014 Monster of the Week: The Syphilitic Vampire We’ve discussed humanoid sanguivores and Mexican vampire women before, but this week we turn our attention to Count Spirochete, the vampiric embodiment of syphilis. Just as the Russian sailing ship The Demeter delivered Dracula to the shores of England, so … Read more › « PREV NEXT » 1 of 119 About Stuff to Blow Your Mind Learn even more about the human hosts of Stuff to Blow Your Mind. Read More Advertisement Videos Stuff to Blow Your Mind: The Videos Watch the latest Stuff to Blow Your Mind videos on our video page. Watch Now Podcasts Stuff to Blow Your Mind: The Podcast Check out the latest audio podcasts from Stuff to Blow Your Mind. Listen Now check out our shows MORE FROM THE STUFF NETWORK CHECK OUT STUFF TO BLOW YOUR MIND ON HOWSTUFFWORKS YOUTUBE FACEBOOK TWITTER TUMBLR GOOGLE+ ABOUT NEWSLETTER MORE STUFF SITES ... 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