6,000 miles away from home in Bangkok, Holly Dejsupa is just another third culture kid struggling through medical school. In class, she learns bizarre stuff like why the ER is busier on Valentine’s Day and why cheese can give you nightmares. Outside of class, she has cool conversations with much cooler people (“history-taking”, she calls it). Thus, THAT MED KID is a crockpot celebrating the weird and wonderful.
Cannibalism -- why did our ancestors ever engage in it? In this episode, we'll dig into the nutritional profile of human meat (fun fact: the human heart has 651 calories) to see if we're really that tasty enough to be consumed, or if there were other social reasons justifying the taboo act.
