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Join Rachel Teichman, LMSW and Victor Varnado, KSN as they delve into the bizarre world of the Schmidt Sting Pain Index, a system that rates the pain of insect stings. Explore the peculiar methodology and its entomological insights in this intriguing episode. Here's a fascinating tidbit: The pain index was developed by entomologist Justin Schmidt, who famously described the sting of the bullet ant as "pure, intense, brilliant pain."Produced and hosted by Victor Varnado & Rachel TeichmanFull Wikipedia article here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schmidt_sting_pain_indexWE APPRECIATE YOUR SUPPORT ON PATREON!https://www.patreon.com/wikilistenpodcastFind us on social media!https://www.facebook.com/WikiListenInstagram @WikiListenTwitter @Wiki_ListenGet bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We've had some sickness in our house that has interfered with our podcast schedule. (Don't worry, we're all ok!) So this month we're reaching into our archives to replay an episode you may have missed the first time. This is one of our favorite episodes, and one of our most popular. It's an interview with Dr. Justin Schmidt who has been stung by over 100 different insects and created a scale of how much each one hurts. He tells us about what it feels like to get stung by a bullet ant (OUCH!) versus a bee, why insects sting, why some insects die after they sting you, and lots more.  We will be back soon with bug edition of four truths and a lie and, by Jaguar's demand, an episode of All About Cooking.   

How can the painful bites and stings of insects be objectively classified onto a spectrum of suffering? One entomologist has spent his life's work doing just that. Listen in to discover:  Why honeybees might have the most dangerous sting in the world What makes an insects sting painful What determines how painful an insect's sting will develop to be Entomologist and author of "The Sting of the Wild", Justin Schmidt shares his insight on honeybee behavioral adaptions and his experience creating a sting pain index from scratch. Mr. Schmidt left his role as a laboratory chemist to combine that knowledge with his love of insects. Using his chemical expertise and applying it to the venom of insects, the Schmidt Sting Pain Index was created. On a scale from one to four, insects worldwide find their place from a mere annoyance on the low end of the scale to an electric shock topping out at four. Contrary to intuition, a bug's size is not necessarily relative to the might of its sting. It has been found that regardless of the size, if an insect is not often threatened or challenged by large predators, it may not have as severe a sting. Due to honeybee behavioral adaptions, a single sting only falls as a two on the index, but the victim may be in for severe repercussions if attacked by a swarm. To learn more, purchase "The Sting of the Wild" on Amazon.com or search the Schmidt Sting Pain Index online. Episode also available on Apple Podcasts: apple.co/30PvU9C

This week: bees! wasps! hornets! yellowjackets! (and other things that sting) with special guest Justin O. Schmidt, research biologist at Southwestern Biological Institute, adjunct faculty at University of Arizona’s department of entymology, author of The Sting of the Wild, and creator of the famous Schmidt Sting Pain Index. Scientific American called Schmidt the "King of Sting." The New York Times dubbed him a “Connoisseur of Pain.” Here’s your college class on stings, with ... if we may ... the "sommelier of sting." Thanks to our sponsors, the Catskill Mountains Scenic Byway, and the Catskill Center. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/kaatscast/support

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Starting this week, Kids Listen member podcasts – like What If World, The Past and the Curious, The Good Words Podcast, Book Club for Kids, Little Bedtime Stories, Tumble Podcast, Timestorm, Be Calm on Ahway Island, Aaron’s World, Best Day Yet, The Alien Adventures of Finn Caspian, Story Spectacular, Unspookable, Curious Kid Podcast and Buttons & Figs – and of course Cool Facts About Animals – will bring you a podcast and an activity based on the episode. Cool Facts About Animals’ episode is up today! For our episode, we chose our second most popular episode of all time – tarantula hawk wasps. This episode features an interview with Dr. Justin Schmidt, who invented the Schmidt Sting Pain Index.  Do you kow how he invented that index? He got stung. A lot. And then told people about how much each one hurt on a scale from 1 to 4. It’s a really fun episode, filled with lots of animal facts from a super cool scientist. After you listen, you can find a number of activities relating to the episode, including inventing your own index, drawing your defensive superpowers, doing in-depth bug observation, and lots more.  Here are all the links you need: Kids Listen Activity Podcast on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/kids-listen-activity-podcast/id1502915722 Raw feed if you’re not an iTunes person: https://kidslistenactivitypodcast.libsyn.com/rss Kids Listen Activity website: https://www.kidslisten.org/activity-podcast Link to our most popular episode: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/unicorns/id1334467437?i=1000433820094 Here’s another resource of podcasts to listen to and other resources: https://medium.com/kidslisten/schools-out-kids-podcasts-are-in-82634e23d4c4 And our contact info – we’d love to hear from you! Email us at coolfactsaboutanimals@gmail.com or tweet @coolanimalspod. If you’re into hashtags, use the tag #kidslistenactivitypod Stay well, listeners. 

We are coming up on our 100th episode, and this one is one of our most popular of all time, and for good reason. We get to speak with Dr. Schmidt, who invented the Schmidt Sting Pain Index. Do you kow how he invented that index? He got stung. A lot. And then told people about how much each one hurt on a scale from 1 to 4. It’s a really fun episode, filled with lots of animal facts from a super cool scientist. After the podcast ends, it’s time to get started on the activity! Head to http://www.kidslisten.org/activity-podcast to find activities relating to this podcast, including inventing your own index, drawing your defensive superpowers, doing in-depth bug observation, and lots more. Share your activities with us with help from your adult! Use the hashtag #kidslistenactivitypod to post a photo on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook .

Today, Noah talks about how the same strain can affect your body in different ways. We take on bad vape cartridges, and talk about the difference between legal and illegal cartridges. Finally, we wrap up this episode with some food for thought talking about the Schmidt Sting Pain Index. Don't know what that is? You'll have to listen to find out!

A long, long time ago we got a request from James—who was 5 at the time—to do an episode about tarantula hawk wasps. When we started researching the insect, we kept coming across the name Dr. Justin Schmidt. Grady had already heard of him—you may have too. He invented what’s called the Schmidt Sting Pain Index. The index measures just what it sounds like it would—how painful different insects’ stings are to humans. Dr. Schmidt is also the author of a book called The Sting of the Wild, which we recommend you all read. We had the great pleasure of having a Skype conversation from Dr. Schmidt from his office in Tucson, Arizona. We talked about not just the tarantula hawk wasp, but also about other stinging insects, why some insects die after they sting you, how much it hurts to get stung by a bullet ant, and lots more. Check it out. We will be back with our regular format soon! And once again, we know we have a growing list of folks who we owe bookmarks and replies too. You are on our radar, but summer fun is getting in the way. We will be back on track soon!  

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Entomologist Dr. Justin Schmidt is known as "The King of Sting" for good reason. After decades spent subjecting himself to ant, wasp, and bee stings, the Schmidt Sting Pain Index is the bible of insect stings. Or perhaps it's a connoisseur's guide.

Poison Boy and the Safety Rangers roll up their sleeves and get to work on the annual carbon monoxide detection campaign. Time to save some lives Rangers! In addition to going on the warpath against CO, the Toxicological Avenger reviews some elements of the fascinating book THE STING OF THE WILD and discusses the hilarious and important exploits of Dr. Justin O. Schmidt - the "Man Who Gets Stung for Science" and the guy that developed the Schmidt Sting Pain Index - a four point scoring system for the pain associated with stinging insects. Crazy but amazingly scientifically important. We also discuss some of the important and interesting and bizarre events that occurred this week in the history of our little planet. Bust a move, Rangers! 

Is it worse to be stung by a scorpion or a bee? Ask Justin O. Schmidt, a biologist at Southwestern Biological Institute, who’s also affiliated with the Department of Entomology at the University of Arizona and the author of The Sting of the Wild. Dr. Schmidt has let more than 83 different species of stinging insects from all over the world attack him... all in the name of science! Schmidt is the inventor of the eponymous “Schmidt Sting Pain Index,” which ranks the relative pain caused by insect stings on various parts of the body. On this week’s Please Explain, he’ll explain why insects sting in the first place, and what happens to them (and us) when they do it.  Have questions about insect stings? Send us your questions in a comment below, or let us know on Twitter or Facebook!

Entomologist Justin Schmidt is developing a way to measure painful insect stings - by stinging himself with as many creatures as possible.

The Ig Nobel Prizes honour achievements that first make us laugh, then make us think. We take a look at this year's winners: from unboiled eggs to painful bee stings! You can watch the award ceremony here. The Chemistry prize was awarded to a team from Australia and the USA "for inventing a chemical recipe to partially un-boil an egg". The Physics prize went to scientists from the USA and Taiwan "for testing the biological principle that nearly all mammals empty their bladders in about 21 seconds (plus or minus 13 seconds)". The Literature prize was awarded to linguists from The Netherlands, USA, Belgium and Australia "for discovering that the word "[huh?" (or its equivalent) seems to exist in every human language — and for not being quite sure why". The Management prize was given to three business school professors, "for discovering that many business leaders developed in childhood a fondness for risk-taking, when they experienced natural disasters (such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, and wildfires) that — for them — had no dire personal consequences". The Economics prize went to the Bangkok Metropolitan Police, "for offering to pay policemen extra cash if the policemen refuse to take bribes". The Medicine prize was awarded jointly to two groups, "for experiments to study the biomedical benefits or biomedical consequences of intense kissing (and other intimate, interpersonal activities)". The Mathematics prize was given to Elisabeth Oberzaucher and Karl Grammer, "for trying to use mathematical techniques to determine whether and how Moulay Ismael the Bloodthirsty, the Sharifian Emperor of Morocco, managed, during the years from 1697 through 1727, to father 888 children". The Biology prize was presented to scientists from Chile and the USA, "for observing that when you attach a weighted stick to the rear end of a chicken, the chicken then walks in a manner similar to that in which dinosaurs are thought to have walked". The Diagnostic Medicine prize went to researchers from the University of Oxford and Stoke Mandeville Hospital, "for determining that acute appendicitis can be accurately diagnosed by the amount of pain evident when the patient is driven over speed bumps". The Physiology and Entomology prize was jointly awarded to two individuals. Justin Schmidt got the gong "for painstakingly creating the Schmidt Sting Pain Index, which rates the relative pain people feel when stung by various insects". Michael L. Smith was granted the prize "for carefully arranging for honey bees to sting him repeatedly on 25 different locations on his body, to learn which locations are the least painful (the skull, middle toe tip, and upper arm) and which are the most painful (the nostril, upper lip, and penis shaft)".

Gavin Pitts is back with Joe, Kevin, and Toren to discuss wasps, from the world's smallest of the amoeba-sized Fairy Fly to the Asian Giant Hornet! Plus the difference between wasps, hornets, ants and bees, how the Green Fairy Wasp "drives" cockroaches around via their antennae, a pop quiz on the Schmidt Sting Pain Index, several recent wasp-related deaths, and some terrible wasp-related movies. News: We're doing another live podcast at EXP Restaurant & Bar with special guests Sneaky Dragon and a live One Minute Medical School! Details at tickets available at Caustic Gear. Music: "I Got The Stinger" by Jabo Smith's Rhythm Aces Images Links Damn Interesting - Mind-Controlling Wasps and Zombie Spiders Videos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UkDMrG6tog http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_aHOnyXIOI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qN2XMyxAs5o http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtF-u4q7dI4

Episode ID:  5 Date:  Tue, Sep 25 2012 BGepisode5.mp3 Teaser Text:  This week on Baby Geniuses: Avery Monsen travels with Emily to an event featuring a man named Bracco the Silent Gazer, Lisa explains the Schmidt Sting Pain Index, Brent Sullivan drops by to give his expertise on cyber-stalking, and Toby Ridgles of Gumtion Candies gives us a shaky presentation on his new diet gum. This week on Baby Geniuses: Avery Monsen travels with Emily to an event featuring a man named Bracco the Silent Gazer, Lisa explains the Schmidt Sting Pain Index, Brent Sullivan drops by to give his expertise on cyber-stalking, and Toby Ridgles of Gumtion Candies gives us a shaky presentation on his new diet gum.