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Each week, scienceman Alex Duckles, author of the Naturalish blog on Medium, is joined by his trusty producer Ben Schultz to explore the amazing (and sometimes terrifying) real science hidden within myths, fantasy, and science fiction from the past and present. It's all Naturalish!

Scary Tasty Fun Mummies

This week Alex and Ben dive into the spooky (or maybe not so spooky) world of the mummies. Today they are frightful cursed monsters, but were they alw...
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Sandworms of the Dune-iverse

Frank Herbert did his homework before writing his classic science fiction novel, Dune. So in order to cover the biology of all-important giant sandwor...
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Rat King: A Tangled Tale

It's ALIVE! Or is it? Actually, how could such an abomination even survive? The frightful rattenkonig sits in that murky ground between fact and ficti...
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Gremlins: The Real Christmas Creep

Boo! Merry Spookmas! It's Naturalish Nights! Deck the halls with webs of cob. Good spookings to you and you kin. That's right! We are in the thick of ...
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Naturalish Solves the Scare Crisis

All these monsters employed by Monsters Inc. are scaring kids for their scare energy, but no one is stopping to ask: WHY?! That is, until a certain sc...
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Monstrous Growing Pains

Have you ever dreamed of being big? But like skyscaper big, though. You could climb a building, go on a rampage, or skateboard with a train! Sounds pr...
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We Speak for the Monster Trees

How monstrous are monster trees really? Naturalish returns to the realm of cryptozoology this week as Alex and Ben take trip back in time to examine t...
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Who Squatches The Squatchers?

You probably don't believe in Bigfoot, but if you do, you probably have difficulty proving the existence of the noble Sasquatch to so-called scientist...
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