One Flew Over The Kuru Nest
How does Monticello span to Kuru and the cannabilistic Fore people of Papua New Guinea? Traverse from Thomas Jefferson and his plan for maple sugar, ending slavery, and the Louisiana Purchase, westward expansion along the Oregon Trail, the fate of the Donner Party, cannibalism, Fore people, Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, and the Kuru prion disease.
Truckee River Donner Party Camp
© Bruce Cooper
Cerebellum with Kuru
© D.C. Gajdusek
Show Notes
Credits
Written and performed by Dr. Dustin Edwards and Faith Cox
Music from https://filmmusic.io
“Crinoline Dreams” by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com);
license CC BY 4.0
Images from
Cerebellum from Kuru-infected Fore © Daniel Carleton Gajdusek; license CC BY 3.0
Truckee River © Bruce Cooper; license CC BY-SA 3.0
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