Episode 146: Splice It Real Good

CW: Animal Cruelty, Racism (briefly)

You ever wonder how plausible it would be to become a real life catgirl/catboy/catbeing? How close we are to having centaurs? Or perhaps you wonder if you could gain some cool animal powers if science just progressed far enough? Well guess what! Remy has the deets on human/animal chimera research! We also discuss the ethics of cannibalism. Again.

Let’s start with just the Wikipedia for the scientist who did the Soviet Monkey Man experiment, Ilya Ivanov.

And here’s the story about the monkey man experiment.

This is an article about the emerging technologies science is looking into when it comes to creating organs grown in pigs or other animals. This looks at the ethics of this kind of science.

And here’s a look at the actual work that’s being done. This is an article about hearts with human cells that were grown inside a pig for the first time.

Then we just sort of chattered about what animals we think would be the best and the worst the combine into a human/animal hybrid if we were creating a superhuman version of ourselves. So here’s some animal fact articles about some of the animals mentioned.

Here’s a little thing about Koalas and their various qualities that you might inherit if you were to be spliced with one.

Tis one is about jellyfish and qualities of you might inherit if you were to be spliced with some species of them.

This one talks about the dung beetle and qualities you might inherit if you were to be spliced with one of them.