96: Fossoriality & Movie Censorship

How have animals adapted to the digging lifestyle, and can that help us explain the Devil's Corkscrew? And what are the various ways movies can be censored across the world, and what does that tell us about the world itself?
Images we Talk About:
The Devil's Corkscrew (th-thumbnailer.cdn-si-edu.com/rvk-eVBbHiCFjGPO…)
Mole Skeleton Comparison (figures.semanticscholar.org/2450e253fd7de5f75d…)
Mole Digging Video (youtu.be/toARdZKs-IE?si=ZKadBtHrtlwxKxHP&t…)
Monitor Lizard Burrow (letslearneverything.com/images/varanus-gouldii…)
Monitor Lizard Burrows (letslearneverything.com/images/varanus-gouldii…)
Timestamps:
(00:00:00) Intro
(00:02:30) Fossoriality
(00:52:58) Movie Censorship
(01:36:53) Outro
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We also learn about:
Daemonelix or the Devil’s Corkscrew, well Tom I hope one of your facts beats Ella’s giant sloth fact, only nerds know the word fossorial, why dig is easy - how dig is harder, mole skeletons are hyper specialized, moles are herd to catch and keep, I dig holes for me, is that couscous? the silica gel of pasta, x-ray videos of moles digging in couscous, devil’s corkscrew deja vu, first and deepest lizard burough, one of the most stable egg environments for an 8 month incubation, it turns out helixes are more common than we thought, Put! Lizards! In! Couscous! Peter Jackson’s braindead, video nastys, wow blaming media for crime we’ve never heard that before, video nastys were an easy ban because politicans didnt care about them, a microcosm of the moral panics of the time, the military entertainment complex, the US doesn’t have any outright movie bans… but they do have the hayes code, self censorship, no picture show lower the moral standard of those who see it, the commercial influence on self censorship, charlie shackleton’s paint drying film, poilitical movie bans reflect real alliances and tensions, denmark’s only ever banned the disney skeleton dance, Denmark’s freedom of speech is what the US thinks it is, don’t be mean to the military uwu, only 34 foreign films can be shown in china every year, the censorship is coming from inside the house, a Bohemian Rhapsody without mention of sexuality, Tilda Swinton played an asian character to get around mentioning Tibet, World War Z was changed even though it never aired in China, why are you making me defend these bad movies, censorship is as strong as the weakest link in the chain that’s profitable, “it’s all just crazy and some food for thought, thank youuu”
Sources:
NPCA on the Devil's Corkscrew (npca.org/articles/983-the-beaver-that-didn-t-g…)
Smithsonian Mag Devil's Corkscrew (smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/how…)
Mole Forlimb Morphology (journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/222/4/jeb1…)
Mole Senses Paper (sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982…)
Fossorial Ventilatory Response (sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S156…)
Mole Rat Lung Comparison Paper (nature.com/articles/s41598-020-61873-8)
NWF Mole Facts (nwf.org/Educational-Resources/Wildlife-Guide/M…)
NYTimes Mole Motion (nytimes.com/2014/01/28/science/uncovering-the-…)
Yi Fen Lin Mole Walking Paper (semanticscholar.org/paper/BURROWING-AND-WALKIN…)
Yi Fen Lin Mole Burrowing Paper (journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/222/4/jeb1…)
Deep Nesting in a Lizard: Deja Vu Devil's Corkscrew: First Helical Reptile Burrow and Deepest Vertebrate Nest. (researchgate.net/publication/280559331_Deep_Ne…)
Helical Burrows Across the Animal Kingdom Paper (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39263461)
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BBFC: Video Nasties (web.archive.org/web/20200924204745/https://www…)
Wiki: Video Nasty (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_nasty)
BFI: Unspooling the Video Nasties (bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/features/history-br…)
Wiki: Film Censorship in the United States (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_censorship_in_the_U…)
Guardian: Top Gun for Hire (theguardian.com/film/2022/may/26/top-gun-for-h…)
Wiki: List of films banned in the United States (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_banned_in_…)
Screen Online: Hayes Code (screenonline.org.uk/film/id/592022)
Vice: Why I’m Making British Film Censors Watch Paint Dry (vice.com/en/article/british-film-censorship-bb…)
Wiki: Paint Drying (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paint_Drying)
Wiki: List of Banned Films (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_banned_films)
BBC: Cambodia Bans Thai Movies (bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2ezgjlzggyo)
BBC: Russia Bans Death of Stalin (bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-42803681)
Reuters: Lightyear Banned (reuters.com/business/media-telecom/exclusive-p…)
Wiki: The Skeleton Dance (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Skeleton_Dance)
EBSCO: History of Censorship in Denmark (ebsco.com/research-starters/politics-and-gover…)
English Translation of the Danish Constitution (web.archive.org/web/20100613072624/http://legi…)
Wiki: Denmark Motion Picture Content Rating System (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_picture_content_r…)
Variety: Foreign Titles Squeezed in China Film Market (variety.com/2022/film/news/foreign-titles-sque…)
Harvard: Disney censorship in China (hir.harvard.edu/rated-c-for-censored-walt-disn…)
Pen: Made in Hollywood, Censored by Beijing (pen.org/report/made-in-hollywood-censored-by-b…)

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