102: The Vitamin Saga & The Evolution of Fairies

Why are there so many vitamins, what even IS a vitamin?? Well Tom finally understands, and takes us on a tour through their infuriating past. And how did the cheerful fairy we know and love today, evolve into its current form? Well we'll only tell if you can answer our riddles three and- or you can just listen to the episode. Things we Talk About:James Lind Scurvy PaintingThe Various Vitamin BsVitamin MapBrownieFirst Fairy ImageCicely Mary Barker FairiesCottingley Fairies 1Cottingley Fairies 2Illusion SpinnersBitterbloom Bearer Timestamps: (00:00:00) Intro (00:03:05) The Vitamin Saga (00:57:54) The Evolution of Fairies (01:48:20) Outro Support us with a Max Fun Membership! Join our Discord! We also learn about: Will vitamin c cure me or murder me? more people died of scurvy than combat on the seas, Lind’s biblical scurvy experiment painting, vitamin Pee, maybe oranges are the fifth humor, beri beri, the gelatin comission, come onnn man it’s the 1800s give me a break, we know proteins carbs fats and minerals but something’s missing, STUDY MINERALS THEY SAID - YOU’LL WIN A NOBEL PRIZE THEY SAID, vital amines but they’re not amines, wait are vitamins like fish?? drop the e just vitamin, *mymymymy* all the vitamins are completely different?, some vitamins only exist for a few picoseconds in a supercollider, a bunch of vitamins got pluto’d, Vitamins are like a title, vitamer, VITAMIN D IS A HORMONE, wait maybe hormones are vitamins too, we haven’t talked about how vitamins work because they do Too Many Things, “we’re trying our best but sometimes our best isn’t good enough”, lifting the shadow of death, fitnessgirl250 actually has a PhD, food science is an applied science, the LLE supplement has all the dropped vitamins, vitamins are perfect for capitalism, there is not silver bullet, you can’t supplement your way into a healthy life, an appearance from she/her Caroline, the rainbow magic fairy books, we support evil fairies, the fickle house brownies, realizing fairytales are fairy tales, both high and low class could blame fairies, dressing boys as girls to protect them from the fae, booktok loves hot Rumpelstiltskin, American leprechaun traps, fae - fatah - the fates, when did fairies evolve wings, distinguishing from angels through insectification, fairies may have shrunk to be less threatening, Tom doesn’t know what a panto is, Victorians established the modern fairy, fairies went from robbing cribs to being trapped in the nursery, Cicely Mary Barker’s flower fairies, the collectability of fairies, 350 fairy books in 5 years, the Cottingley fairy hoax, fairies went from being about protecting sons to empowering girls, spelling fairy or faerie, Evyn Fong’s insectoid fairies, the review corner riddle, weaponizing review corner to talk to us. Semba: The Discover of the VitaminsRoyal Museums Greenwich: ScurveyScience History Institute: ScurveyBeriberi Review through Chinese Medical LiteratureDrummond's Naming of VitaminsNobel Laureats in the History of VitaminsSemba: On the Discovery of Vitamin ASciAm: What Vitamins Really Do --- Wiki: Parī (Peris)JER Journal: Peri and Persian MythologyBook: A Dictionary of English FolkloreBBC: Fairies, Leprechauns and Changelings: Ireland's Darkest FolkloreBlog: Fairy versus Faerie, and other names for the FaeHarvard University: The Wife of Bath's Prologue and TaleThis Is Gendered: The FairyBlog: An Overview of How Faeries Were Portrayed During Different Literary PeriodsEdinburgh University: A Need for Belief: The Victorians and Fairies. Book: Trolls: From Scandinavia to Dam Dolls, Tolkien, and Harry PotterBBC: When Britain was Gripped by 'Fairy Mania'Blog: The Surprising Magic of Bad BooksOxford English Dictionary: Fairy Help support this show and unlock bonus content! Become a member at https://maximumfun.org/joinlearn