113: Rediscovered Organs & Bird Watching

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Wait, how are we rediscovering organs in 2026?? Or... are we? Well let's learn about the history and fads of the insides of our bodies! And what is bird watching, why do we all love it, and how casual and competitive can you get with it? Images we talk about: (Also available at https://www.letslearneverything.com/113/) Clay Liver Online Terminologia Anatomica Salivary Glands Bird Study Skins A Field guide to Birds Example Page Timestamps: (00:00:00) Intro (00:04:56) Rediscovered Organs (01:05:15) Bird Watching (01:50:12) Outro Support us with a Max Fun Membership! Join our Discord! We also learn about: Huh?? Mesopotamian organ divination, sheep liver phrenology models, everyone needs to talk about this, Al-Razi’s “Doubts about Galen”, the great ignorance time skip, hmm this dead body must be wrong, the dissection fad, the murder act, you don’t know Burke and Hare?? body snatching and anatomy murder, the vestigial craze, Wiedersheim’s minimal viable person, the problem of naming organs, 20 synonyms of organs, Ella goes feral over the online Federative International Programme for Anatomical Terminology, our 3-4, hi Dad and Ella’s mom - hope you enjoyed that clitoris joke, our 4t