Fang Theory

For one last time, we reflect on our time hosting Fang Theory, be our usual silly goofy selves, and visit the Twilight universe together. We hope you enjoyed it, and thank you for any precious moments you've spent with us. Socials (where we will still periodically post memes and updates): Instagram Twitter Donate: Quileute Move to Higher Ground Fundraiser Our intro and outro music: In the Gloaming - American Quartet (1910) An update for any concerned listeners: Paige and Hannah have since acquired Taylor tickets and will be seeing her together :) Links: Paige's article about falling in love with Twilight (again) Big Joel and autonomy in Twilight My favorite Phoebe Bridgers tweet And the perfect quote-tweet A little parting gift

Goonies never say die…but vampires sure do. As Hannah so eloquently put it, this is “the last one where we're not just dicking around.” Tune in to hear how vampires die (and why it's so hard to kill them) as well as some horrifying real life examples of regeneration in nature, featuring the wackiest goofiest animals. Also, don't worry. Your liver is always looking out for you. Socials: Instagram Twitter Donate: Quileute Move to Higher Ground Fundraiser Our intro and outro music: In the Gloaming - American Quartet (1910) Links: Hydra picture Are Vampires Bald??? (Our hair episode) Our White Whale (Our semen episode) Hammerhead worms Itchy deer antlers Inventor of the pap smear and why it's called that Regeneration overview Regeneration and axolotls Axolotls and human regeneration research Hydras are immortal probably Replantation of digits

In a lowkey, silly one, Hannah and Paige make the case that New Moon has the best movie soundtrack in the Twilight franchise, if not in cinema history as they talk about what they love about each song and rank them. Socials: Instagram Twitter Donate: Quileute Move to Higher Ground Fundraiser Our intro and outro music: In the Gloaming - American Quartet (1910) Links: The New Moon Soundtrack White Demon Love Song Here We Go Again Video (by OK Go) The Killers are Mormon (?) Who is Thom Yorke Songs written exclusively for the soundtrack

This week Paige and Hannah go on a little self-indulgent jaunt through the first twilight movie. They talk about their favorite parts, the cinematography moves they thought were brilliant, the decisions they thought were, uh, questionable, and generally have a little silly time. Socials: Instagram Twitter Donate: Quileute Move to Higher Ground Fundraiser Our intro and outro music: In the Gloaming - American Quartet (1910) Links: SNL Skit The New Girl episode with Eric Clip 1 (1:00-3:00) Clip 2 (1:55-end) Clip 3 Clip 4 Clip 5 Clip 6

Paige brings Hannah her favorite and most heinous wig pictures from the entire Twilight series, and Hannah tier ranks them. Heads up, folks, some of these are pretty rough. Socials: Instagram Twitter Donate: Quileute Move to Higher Ground Fundraiser Our intro and outro music: In the Gloaming - American Quartet (1910) Links: The doc with all the links to the wigs Paige and Hannah discuss "Who Wears Wigs in Twilight?" "Which actors wore wigs..." "The Wiggiest Hair of the Twilight Franchise" "Good News for Twilight Cast Members: No More Wigs" Interview with Nikki Reed and Elizabeth Reaser Rob on BD Pt 2 Hair "You nicknamed my daughter after the loch ness monster?!" clip Hannah's Glee tier ranking youtube video reference AHTIFICE! "You think they fooled me, brother?" (starts 2:40) Dakota Fanning's education The most sensual scene in twilight Ariana Grande on hair damage :(

We humbly present Another Silly One. Basically, Paige walks Hannah through some moments in Midnight Sun and they make fun of Edward a little bit but also generally fawn over how much he loves Bella. It'll be fun, we promise. Socials: Instagram Twitter Donate: Quileute Move to Higher Ground Fundraiser Our intro and outro music: In the Gloaming - American Quartet (1910) Links: Feeling lucky?

Stephanie laid down the gauntlet when she said that vampires can never get stronger or weaker. We answer the challenge this week by explaining how muscles work, grow, and atrophy and how vampires can't do most of those things. Plus, this week turned out to be a culmination of our past episodes in many ways, so if you haven't already, here are a few that we think you should check out! Our White Whale The Real Virus Was the Friends We Made Along the Way You And Me, Baby, Ain't Nothing But Mammals The Gang Gets Hormonal Shine Bright Like a Diamond Donate: Quileute Move to Higher Ground Fundraiser Our intro and outro music: In the Gloaming - American Quartet (1910) Links: How the Muscular System Works Muscular System Crashcourse 1 Muscular System Crashcourse 2 Muscular System Crashcourse 3 Intro to muscle growth Muscle growth overview Muscle atrophy overview Why muscle tired :( Big Boy Science™ (muscle atrophy) More Big Boy Science™ (muscle atrophy) EVEN MORE BIG BOY SCIENCE™ (macronutrients) Lactic acid Proteasome inhibitor definition

This week, we're back with something a little different: a little more raw and a lot less researched. Paige and Hannah show their uninitiated friend Marissa iconic clips from the Twilight movies and she explains to them what they mean and why they're important. Some highlights include: that Blue-Ass Movie, what Alice and a Puffle from Club Penguin have in common, and Jacob Revealing Himself. CONTENT WARNING: Hannah insisted on explaining the Omega Verse for reasons unknown. Donate: Quileute Move to Higher Ground Fundraiser Our intro and outro music: In the Gloaming - American Quartet (1910) Clips Featured: Jacob Is a Wolf She Broke Her Hand. Punching My Face. hey did you get contacts? Jacob Reveals Himself Green is what? GOOD. I wanna be a cowboy, bay-bey it's la push, baby, la push Movie theater and want me to PUT you in the hospital? you nick-named my daughter

This week we tackle one of the bedrocks of the Twilight vampire lore: why doesn't Edward sleep? Featuring an overview of current theories about why humans do sleep and Paige and Hannah being icked out by Edward watching Bella but commiserating with her about talking in her sleep. Donate: Quileute Move to Higher Ground Fundraiser Our intro and outro music: In the Gloaming - American Quartet (1910) Links: "Spittin' Facts" (AKA the "Spit on Me" episode) Who are we / what do we want / why are we doing this Coral reef teleosts being the most average fish imaginable Social media and sleep deprivation Maintenance Phase on sleep "The Science of the Midnight Snack" Why we sleep theories "Is Sleep Essential?" Dolphins and unihemispheric sleep More on unihemispheric sleep Sleep deprivation and pigeons :( EEG definition What happens in the body during sleep More things the body does during sleep 2L of saliva a day

Why do vampires have such good eyesight, and why do “vegetarian” and “regular” vampires have different eye colors? Find out in this week's episode, where we answer your burning questions by discussing how human eyes work and what works differently in animals with better eyesight than us. Featuring a passionate defense of tofu by Hannah. Note: Eagles are SWIMMING in cones: "In a human, the fovea has 200,000 cones per millimeter, giving us wonderful vision. In the central fovea of an eagle there are about a MILLION cones per millimeter." It also turns out we were mistaken: bats don't have more cones; they have rods that have evolved to detect UV light which actually compensates from relative color blindness that comes as a result of having few cones (whoops). Donate: Quileute Move to Higher Ground Fundraiser Our intro and outro music: In the Gloaming - American Quartet (1910) Links: Disturbing artist rendition of a human with eagle eyes Eye shape and impaired vision Vision overview (god bless hank) Diagram of an eye Why goats have horizontal pupils Bat vision More bat vision More more bats Echolocation Owls Cat vision Eye color variation in humans and domesticated animals Orange and gold eyes Albinism and red eyes Birds with red eyes Malaga tourist site

In the final leg of this memory journey, Paige and Hannah talk about why vampires remember everything that happens to them after the transformation and consider Bella's claim that she struggles to remember things that happened to her as a human because her senses were so much worse. Topics of note will include: photographic memory, *real* people who remember everything that ever happened to them, and cases through history of people who have regained their sight. Donate: Quileute Move to Higher Ground Fundraiser Our intro and outro music: In the Gloaming - American Quartet (1910) Note: The book Eclipse doesn't say how the newborn army got to the clearing, so the decision to film the vampires coming out of the lake was purely artistic. Also, because Virgil was a pseudonym, Paige was unable to determine if he's still alive or what happened to him after 1993. Links: Sacks' article on Virgil Cases of regained sight (New Yorker) Synesthesia and eidetic memory Synesthesia and calendar dates People are biologically coded to recognize faces ("greeble" study) Eidetic imagery definition Hypermnesia Highly Super Autobiographical Memory (HSAM) Jim McGaugh's original HSAM study 60 Minutes US and Australia Sleep-consolidation study HSAM and sleep quality Why we sleep Sleep and memory Benefits of sleep "Sleep-Dependent Consolidation of Memory" Blindness and neuroplasticity Occipital lobe and regained sight

Hannah walks us through electroshock therapy (AKA electroconvulsive therapy) and how, before we knew how to do it safely, it could seriously disrupt memory. In other words, this week, we go ask Alice. Donate: Quileute Move to Higher Ground Fundraiser Our intro and outro music: In the Gloaming - American Quartet (1910) Links: MRIs Image Electroconvulsive Therapy Overview History of Electroconvulsive Therapy "Electroconvulsive Therapy: 80 Years Old and Still Going Strong" The Nazis and ECT ECT and Memory ECT and Cognitive Effects

We embark on a journey to understand the vampire memory — why are the Cullens' vampire memories so clear and their human memories so foggy? In this episode, Hannah explains the basics of how the brain remembers and forgets. Plus, Paige and Hannah wax poetic about the unsexy nature of psychology definitions, and then they get a little sappy. Donate: Quileute Move to Higher Ground Fundraiser Our intro and outro music: In the Gloaming - American Quartet (1910) Links: Hannah Consolidation Diagram (Under "Figures," it is "Figure 1") The Sleeping at Last Song ("Smell") Hank Explains Memory "The Episodic Buffer" "Memory" Definition "Where are Memories Stored in the Brain" "Everything You Need to Know About the Cerebellum" Basal Ganglia "How Brains Make Memories" Forgetting and Amnesia "Amnesia" Definition Amnesia Overview Psychological Studies of Amnesia

Why Bella is so obsessed with how Edward smells in the books. We're getting into pheromones y'all: what makes them different from body odor and is that why vampires smell so good (and why Bella smells so good to vampires)? Why is all of Eclipse just everyone telling everyone else that they smell so bad? Plus, divergences to discuss the pressing matter of shipping possibilities among the Cullens. Donate: Quileute Move to Higher Ground Fundraiser Our intro and outro music: In the Gloaming - American Quartet (1910) Links: Farrah Moan Dogs Taking Owner's Stuff For Separation Anxiety Menstrual Cycle Syncing Debunked Hank Explains Pheromones Pheromones Overview A Third Pheromones Overview Androstenone Overview Chemoreception and Pheromones "Why Single People Smell Different" Charles University of Prague Meat Consumption Study The Other Meat Consumption and Smell Study Babies and Mom Smell Study Human Pheromones and Sexual Attraction Pheromones and Saliva "Influence of HLA on human partnership and sexual satisfaction" T-Shirt Study "Spider Scents Attract Prey" Microbiome and Body Odor Antiperspirant Deodorant and Aluminum (It's safe after all!) Wildcats and Genetic Similarity

We're taking a little break this week, so enjoy a rambling conversation about what would happen if the Cullens joined the Avengers, featuring Hannah's Marvel prowess and the political philosophy of immortal beings which culminates in a touch of Percy Jackson. Donate: Quileute Move to Higher Ground Fundraiser Our intro and outro music: In the Gloaming - American Quartet (1910)

Paige and Hannah present their various theories about what may make vampire skin so sparkly and hard. Hannah, a non-certified skin expert, tells us what skin is and what changes it might go through as a result of the transformation. Paige returns to tardigrades and presents an alternate explanation for that characteristic Twilight sparkle. Donate: Quileute Move to Higher Ground Fundraiser Our intro and outro music: In the Gloaming - American Quartet (1910) Links: Comb Jellies Video Biofluorescent Turtle Video Skin Layers (with the thicc picture that freaks us out) The Structure of Normal Skin The Protective Role of Melanin Guanine Crystals and Fish Healing Properties of Fish Skin Scleroderma Tardigrades and UV Resistance (interview with Eswarappa) Tardigrades and UV Resistance (original study) Tardigrades and Fluorescence Biofluorescent Turtle Biofluorescent Amphibians Biofluorescent Springhare Biofluorescent Birds Biofluorescent Coral Biofluorescent Comb Jellies

A winding and rambling exploration of whether or not x-rays work on vampires via a discussion about tardigrades. Possibly our least hinged episode, but, listen, we had a good time and we hope you will too. Note: In the interest of protecting Paige's X-Men cred, she misspoke: Wolverine's bones aren't made of adamantium, but they are covered in adamantium. Donate: Quileute Move to Higher Ground Fundraiser Our intro and outro music: In the Gloaming - American Quartet (1910) Links: Medieval Lions That Are Everything To Me Murphy's Law (Colloquial) Murphy's Law (Scientific) X-Rays Overview How Do X-Rays Work? How Do X-Rays See Through Your Skin? Tardigrades Overview Radiation Tolerance in Tardigrades A Computational Structural Study on Dsup NASA: Water Bears in Space "The Tardigrade Damage Suppressor Protein Modulates Transcription Factor..."

Why vampires will eventually all be bald, explained through an overview of how hair grows and a possible explanation for vampire immortaility. Plus, a bonus fashion show featuring the hairstyles of Alice, Carlisle, Jasper, and Aro. Donate: Quileute Move to Higher Ground Fundraiser Our intro and outro music: In the Gloaming - American Quartet (1910) Links: Aro's Hair (Probably) Civil War Facial Hair, Ranked Dutch Men with Wavy Hair 1920s Bobs (with pictures) The Lowdown on the Twilight Wigs Kristen Stewart on the Eclipse Wig Etymology of "Vampire" Empousa (Rick Riordan did not make them up) "An Overview of Alopecias" Hair Follicle Definition Hair Structure Human Hair Growth Overview Hair Biology Hair Growth Overview Fibroblast Growth Factors Fibroblast Growth Factors and Stages of Hair Growth Androgen Definition Androgens and Hair Growth Androgens and Puberty Average Height in 1912 1600s-1700s European Fashion 1860s Hairstyles for Men Homer and Hair Facial Air in Antiquity

Making up for dismal sex-ed in high school by exploring the intricacies of vampire genitalia with more d*ck puns than season 8 of Supernatural. Buckle in folks, we're after our white whale. Donate: Quileute Move to Higher Ground Fundraiser Our intro and outro music: In the Gloaming - American Quartet (1910) Links: The Diagram Persistent Genital Arousal Disorder Sperm Count and High Temperatures Sperm Count and Laptops Semen Overview Sperm Whales Epididyme Overview Spermatogenesis Overview Spermatogenesis Ductus Deferens (AKA Vas Deferens) Sperm Release Pathway Erection and Ejaculation Overview Spermiogenesis Overview "Seminal Fluid Quick Guide" All the Nahuel Tea "Spermatogenesis: The Commitment to Meiosis" Sperm Count Per Day Sperm Count Per Ejaculation (and ejaculations per day) WHO Report on Sperm Count

A tour of anatomy culminating in an answer to the question that has been plaguing us for months: when Stephanie Meyer said venom replaces all fluid in the vampire body…did she really mean *all* fluid? Donate: Quileute Move to Higher Ground Fundraiser Our intro and outro music: In the Gloaming - American Quartet (1910) Links: What is Consent Enthusiastic Consent Everything You Need to Know About Consent Overview of the Life and Work of Marie Bonaparte Skin pH Vulva Terms Review Vaginal Lubrication Definition Mucus Definition Blood Plasma Definition Capillary Endothelium Free Radicals Definition Sympathetic Nervous System History of Orgasm Research (Marie Bonaparte and Freud) Lloyd Orgasm Research How Oral Medicine Enters the Blood Stream "Vagina As Route for Systemic Drug Delivery"

How venom in vampire saliva may have extra potent healing properties, demonstrated via a discussion of how wounds heal and the healing properties of good old-fashioned primate spit. Bonus discussions include: abjection and Edward's self-deprecation, Emmett's unhealthy obsession with bears, what cell migration and communism have in common, and is spit the future of skincare? Donate: Quileute Move to Higher Ground Fundraiser Our intro and outro music: In the Gloaming - American Quartet (1910) Links: Cute Octopus Moving like Cells in Collective Migration The Relationship Between the Heart's Pumping and Gravity An Overview of Abjection Collagen Definition An Overview of Microneedling The Definition of Epithelial Cells How Wounds Heal (TEDEd) Saliva and Wound Healing Study The Power of Saliva: Antimicrobial and Beyond Peptide Definition Definition of Neutrophil Cathelicidin Definition Angiogenesis Definition Trefoil Factor 3 and Saliva Study Collective Cell Migration Cell Spreading Cell Adhesion Cell Proliferation Histatin Overview Histatin and Wound Healing Study Fibroblast Definition Fibroblast Migration Definition Histatins are the Major Wound-Closure Stimulating Factors...

*Trigger warning for the pandemimoore.* How venom may act like a virus in the vampiric transformation process. Featuring: what is a virus, how did we figure out they're a thing, how do they infect cells, and that time Bella almost killed Seth. Donate: Quileute Move to Higher Ground Fundraiser Our intro and outro music: In the Gloaming - American Quartet (1910) Links: Our Cult (All Hail Proboscis Monkey) What is a Virus More Virus Definitions History of Virus Discovery Molecular Constraints of Interspecies Transmission Dogs Don't Get the Flu The Rona and Animals

Are vampires mammals? An overview of the definition and characteristics of mammals, a detour to discuss mules, and a breakthrough in the question of vampire fertility. Donate: Quileute Move to Higher Ground Fundraiser Our intro and outro music: In the Gloaming - American Quartet (1910) Links: Overview of Mammals Mammal Red Blood Cells Overview of Mules Overview of Estrous Cycle (Another) Overview of Estrous Cycle Menopause

How humans breathe and why vampires don't have to, but, most importantly, why we as environmentalists should be concerned about the vampire population and how Hannah justifies murder. (Plus, secretly, the story of how we smell.) Donate: Quileute Move to Higher Ground Fundraiser Our intro and outro music: In the Gloaming - American Quartet (1910) Links: How Do Lungs Work? The Process of Breathing Explained How Do We Smell Things? How Does Smell Work? Olfaction in Humans Explained The Transduction of Olfactory Signals UC Berkeley 2007 Smell Study Beanie Vampire in Eclipse: 1:24:10

How Jasper controls the moods of people who don't breathe (derogatory), an overview of the endocrine system, our current theories on vampire bloodstreams, and Rosalie saying "my monkey man" ringing in our ears at all hours of day and night. Donate: Quileute Move to Higher Ground Fundraiser Our intro and outro music: In the Gloaming - American Quartet (1910) Links: PBS How Do Hormones Work? CrashCourse Endocrine System Thirst Hormones Hormones of "Love" Lust, Attraction, and Attachment Study Hypothalamus Complications of Studying Oxytocin Study

How Jasper got Bella to go to her own birthday party, a brief introduction to Cartesian dualism, an overview of leading emotional processing theories, and, as always, a reminder that vampires' primary emotion is horny. Plus, a third act twist! Donate: Quileute Move to Higher Ground Fundraiser Links: Mind Body Dualism James-Lange Theory 1 James-Lange Theory 2 Cannon-Bard Theory Schachter-Singer Theory Schachter-Singer adrenaline study Neural Basis of Romantic Love Study Overview of Theories of Emotion Spotlight Effect History of Math History of Noodles History of Beer

Welcome to Fang Theory! The podcast where we notice something interesting or weird in the Twilight universe, take it way too seriously, and bring in real world science to explain it. If you've ever wondered if vampire hair grows back, what Twilight's take on Cartesian Dualism is, or how all the pieces broken off a vampire could crawl back together, then tune in every other Thursday.