Sweet Summer Scientist: Spontaneous Human Combustion

SHOW NOTES

This week, we break some news too terrible even for a bat dress, two yummy sandwiches go head to head, Melanie adds to the Quicksand Irrational Fears Hall of Fame and gets aggressive about pancakes.

Content warnings: second trimester loss, grief, funeral planning, death by burning, alcoholism, animal experimentation.

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08 Jun 1805, 3
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31 Oct 2019, T6
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