We like to keep the humor(s) high around here: black bile and phglegm specifically. What form will the Zombiepocalypse take? Is it rabies (rabid whales, what?), prion disease (legit terrifying), or cordyceps (coming for the last of us)? Our listeners share their eponym experiences. Niki slaps on some anti-AI-slop stickers. Huyen is still an otaku (and a brimmed cap).

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Show Notes

▶ Intro

00:01:20 September office hours! | Technical Tea | Patreon
https://www.patreon.com/TechnicalTeaShow/posts/september-office-169999100

00:01:43 Executive Barista: Tom Merritt
https://www.tommerritt.com/

▶ Tech Vampires!

00:03:21 "Love and Pain" (Vampire) by Edvard Munch (1895) | Wikimedia Commons
Original held by the Munch Museum, Oslo
License: Public Domain
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edvard_Munch_-_Vampire_(1895)_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg

00:04:25 Powerline Maintenance Drones | DJI Enterprise
https://enterprise.dji.com/inspection/powerline-inspection

00:04:59 Autonomous Overhead Powerline Recharging for Uninterrupted Drone Operations
https://portal.findresearcher.sdu.dk/en/publications/autonomous-overhead-powerline-recharging-for-uninterrupted-drone-/

00:05:03 "Autonomous Overhead Powerline Recharging for Uninterrupted Drone Operations - ICRA 2024" | Drone Infrastructure Inspection & Interaction Group
https://youtu.be/C-uekD6VTIQ

00:07:41 Bloodletting | Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloodletting

00:08:03 Dr. Gerry Tolbert | Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/gtolbert/

00:08:14 Trepanning | Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trepanning

00:08:23 Humorism | Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humorism

00:08:27 Hippocrates | Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocrates

00:08:30 Galen | Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galen

00:08:32 Marcus Aurelius | Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Aurelius

00:08:34 The four 'humours': Our 2,500-year-old mania for personality types | BBC
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250915-the-ancient-origins-of-todays-personality-types

00:08:49 @emmanuellafont | Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/emmanuellafont

00:09:31 Phrenology | Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrenology

00:11:09 Which Ninja Turtle Are You? Life's Most Important Question | After Hours | Cracked
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtsmluPK7Ug&t=262s

00:13:20 Aristotle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristotle

00:14:32 François-Joseph-Victor Broussais
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois-Joseph-Victor_Broussais

00:15:02 Figure 31.—Instruments and technique of phlebotomy | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Bloodletting Instruments in the National Museum of History and Technology
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33102/images/fig31.jpg

00:15:29 The Project Gutenberg eBook of Bloodletting Instruments in the National Museum of History and Technology
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33102/pg33102-images.html
Figure 16.—Advertisement for phlebotomy and cupping instruments. | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Bloodletting Instruments in the National Museum of History and Technology
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33102/images/fig16.jpg

00:15:44 Phlebotomy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phlebotomy

00:16:09 Fleam with three blades | Science Museum Group
https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co141078/fleam-with-three-blades

00:16:44 Lancets and flambes to let blood. | The Spring-Lancet, A “Bloodstain’d Faithful Friend!”
https://artsci.case.edu/dittrick/2014/07/24/the-spring-lancet-a-bloodstaind-faithful-friend/

00:17:32 Germ Theory | Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germ_theory_of_disease

00:18:35 Deep Cut: The Story of Spring Lancets and Medical Change | Spurlock Museum of World Cultures | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
https://www.spurlock.illinois.edu/blog/p/deep-cut-the/481

00:18:38 Figure 6.(left)—Spring lancet, 19th century. &Figure 7.(right)—Interior of spring lancet. | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Bloodletting Instruments in the National Museum of History and Technology
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/33102/pg33102-images.html#Page_13

00:19:01 A bloody 19th-century health craze almost drove these creatures extinct | National Geographic
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/premium/article/leech-blood-health-craze-extinct

00:20:11 Hirudo Medicinalis | Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirudo_medicinalis

00:21:53 Hiurdin | Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirudin

00:22:14 Protease | Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protease

00:23:25 Medicinal Leeches and Where to Find Them: The rise, fall, and resurrection of the humble leech by Jessica Martucci | Science History Institute Museum & Library
https://www.sciencehistory.org/stories/magazine/medicinal-leeches-and-where-to-find-them/

00:24:59 Leech Mania | National Endowment for the Humanities
https://www.neh.gov/article/leech-mania

00:28:15 Resolution and Independence | Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resolution_and_Independence

00:28:36 Resolution and Independence by William Wordsworth | Storgy
https://storgy.com/poems/resolution-and-independence-william-wordsworth/

00:31:00 Louis Pasteur | Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Pasteur

00:31:01 Robert Kloch | Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Koch

00:31:09 "The history of bloodletting" by Gerry Greenstone, BCMJ, vol. 52, No. 1, January February 2010 | British Columbia Medical Journal
https://bcmj.org/premise/history-bloodletting

00:31:38 Dec. 14, 1799: The excruciating final hours of President George Washington by Dr. Howard Markel | PBS News
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/dec-14-1799-excruciating-final-hours-president-george-washington

00:32:33 Venous Congestion | 2010 Plastic Surgery Secrets Plus
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/nursing-and-health-professions/venous-congestion

00:32:59 Mechanical Leeches, London, England, 1850-1855 | Science Museum Group
https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co142294/mechanical-leech-london-england-1850-1855

00:33:23 Blood diagnostics modelled on leeches | ETH Zurich
https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2024/05/blood-diagnostics-modelled-on-leeches.html

00:33:55 Product Classification: Leeches, Medicinal | FDA
https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfPCD/classification.cfm?ID=NRN

00:34:26 Novel device takes over where leeches leave off | EurekAlert
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/649033
"A mechanical leech (at left) developed by otolaryngology professor and surgeon Greg Hartig features a glass vacuum chamber with tubes for maintaining suction and irrigating of a patient's wound. At right in a lab beaker is a live leech traditionally used for medicinal purposes." by Jeff Miller
https://news.wisc.edu/newsphotos/images/mechanical_leech01.jpg

▶ Science Zombies!

00:37:01 Zombies as portrayed in the movie Night of the Living Dead | Wikimedia Commons
Still from the film "Night of the Living Dead" by George A. Romero (1968)
License: Public Domain
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombie#/media/File:Zombies_NightoftheLivingDead.jpg

00:37:49 Rabies in popular culture | Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabies_in_popular_culture

00:37:55 About Rabies | CDC
https://www.cdc.gov/rabies/about/index.html#cdc_disease_basics_symptoms-signs-and-symptoms

00:38:21 About Zoonotic Diseases | CDC
https://www.cdc.gov/one-health/about/about-zoonotic-diseases.html

00:38:39 Rabies | World Health Organization
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/rabies

00:39:01 Rabies Vaccine | Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabies_vaccine

00:39:44 Preventing Rabies from Rats | CDC
https://www.cdc.gov/rabies/prevention/bats.html

00:40:57 Rabies | Symptoms | Mayo Clinic
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/rabies/symptoms-causes/syc-20351821#symptoms

00:43:35 Nationwide Increase in Reported Human Rabies Exposures: Rabies Post-exposure Prophylaxis Administration | CDC
https://www.cdc.gov/han/php/notices/han00533.html

00:44:02 State public health labs step up as CDC pauses testing for various pathogens, including rabies, mpox | University of Minnesota
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/rabies/state-public-health-labs-step-cdc-pauses-testing-various-pathogens-including-rabies-mpox

00:44:23 Goats Petting Zoo Rabies
https://www.dph.ncdhhs.gov/blog/2026/08/29/ncdhhs-confirms-rabies-mobile-petting-zoo

00:45:23 Prion Diseases | Conditions and Diseases | Health | Johns Hopkins
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/prion-diseases

00:45:31 "Scrapie prions" (PrPSc (stained in red) revealed in a photomicrograph of scrapie-infected mouse neuronal cells) by NIAID (2011) | Wikimedia Commons
Original produced by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) / CDC PHIL (ID# 18131)
License: Public Domain
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scrapie_prions.jpg#/media/File:Scrapie_prions.jpg

00:45:55 Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy | CDC
https://www.cdc.gov/mad-cow/php/animal-health/index.html

00:46:01 "Spongiform degeneration in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease" (Micrograph showing vacuoles that appear as holes in tissue sections, H&E stain) by Dr. Al Jenny (CDC) | Wikimedia Commons
Original produced by Dr. Al Jenny for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Public Health Image Library (PHIL)
License: Public Domain
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmissible_spongiform_encephalopathy#/media/File:Spongiform_degeneration_in_Creutzfeldt-Jakob_disease.jpg

00:47:01 My Quest to Cure Prion Disease — Before It’s Too Late | Sonia Vallabh | TED
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04PmEJaYKd0

00:47:11 Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease | Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creutzfeldt%E2%80%93Jakob_disease

00:47:43 Scrapies | USDA
https://www.aphis.usda.gov/livestock-poultry-disease/sheep-goat/scrapie

00:47:45 Chronic Wasting Disease | USDA
https://www.aphis.usda.gov/livestock-poultry-disease/cervid/chronic-wasting

00:48:00 Now health nuts are drinking deer blood to ‘stay young’, risking deadly zombie deer disease, warn experts | Focusing on Wildlife
https://focusingonwildlife.com/news/now-health-nuts-are-drinking-deer-blood-to-stay-young-risking-deadly-zombie-deer-disease-warn-experts/

00:49:11 Kuru, the First Human Prion Disease | Natural Library of Medicine
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6466359/

00:49:23 My friend got prion disease. We watched her forget who we are. | Chubbyemu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmuuin3AaVs

00:50:33 The Last of Us (video game) | Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_of_Us_(video_game)

00:50:38 The Last of Us season 1 | Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_of_Us_season_1

00:50:45 We Asked a Mycologist About The Last of Us and It Got Weird by Bria McNeal | Esquire
https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/a42760795/last-of-us-fungus-cordyceps-mycologist/

00:50:52 Cordyceps | Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordyceps

00:50:59 Wasp parasitized by the fungus Cordyceps | Wikimedia Commons
Photo of a wasp parasitized by Cordyceps fungus by Erich G. Vallery, USDA Forest Service - SRS-4552, Bugwood.org
License: CC BY 3.0
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordyceps#/media/File:Cordyceps.jpg

00:51:41 Ophiocordyceps unilateralis | Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophiocordyceps_unilateralis

00:51:44 Schematic of ant behavioral manipulation by Ophiocordyceps unilateralis | Wikimedia Commons
Illustration of Ophiocordyceps unilateralis lifecycle by Lenapcrd
License: CC BY 3.0
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophiocordyceps_unilateralis#/media/File:Ant_behavioural_manipulation_by_O._unilateralis.png

00:52:53 Gibellula arachnophila by niki14 | iNaturalist
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/147135398

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00:57:44 Eustachian tube | Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eustachian_tube

▶ Something We Enjoyed This Month

00:59:34 Witch Hat Atelier | Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch_Hat_Atelier

00:59:45 "BEST Anime of Spring 2026" by Geoff Thew | Mother's Basement
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmDSoS5gybY&t=1279s

01:00:22 Magic | Independent Witch Hat Atelier Wiki
https://witchhatatelier.telepedia.net/wiki/Magic

01:01:25 I Built a Witch Hat Atelier Spell Simulator | Nerva dorf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVWYW0K3ikg

01:01:51 Smokesculpting Seal | Independent Witch Hat Atelier Wiki
https://witchhatatelier.telepedia.net/wiki/Smokesculpting_Seal

01:02:59 Palm Quires | Independent Witch Hat Atelier Wiki
https://witchhatatelier.telepedia.net/wiki/Palm_Quire

01:04:42 sarahmackattack | Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/sarahmackattack

01:05:07 bunny of shame AI SLOP sticker (10pcs) | grymary
https://www.grymuary.com/product/bunny-of-shame-ai-slop-sticker-10pcs

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