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Today we have an extra special episode where we talk to Dan Schachner about this year\u2019s Puppy Bowl, then we\u2019ll learn about the truths and myths of spontaneous human combustion, and how cancer rates in the US have gone down by 33% since the \u201890s!\xa0

The Puppy Bowl

Human Candles\xa0

• \u201cStrange reports have claimed humans spontaneously burst into flames, but science can explain how bodies sometimes act like a candle wick\u201d by Paola Rosa-Aquino
  • https://www.businessinsider.com/is-spontaneous-human-combustion-real-or-myth-scientific-evidence
• \u201cMan died from spontaneous human combustion, inquest finds\u201d by Brian McDonald
  • https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/man-died-from-spontaneous-human-combustion-inquest-finds-26774631.html
• \u201cSpontaneous Human Combustion in the Light of the 21st Century\u201d by Virve Koljonen, MD, PhD and Nicolas Kluger, MD (PAYWALL)
  • https://academic.oup.com/jbcr/article-abstract/33/3/e102/4588696?login=false

Cancer Rate Down\xa0\xa0\xa0

• \u201cUS cancer death rate drops by 30% since 1991\u201d by BBC
  • https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64255719
• \u201cUS cancer death rate falls 33% since 1991, partly due to advances in treatment, early detection and less smoking, report says\u201d By Jacqueline Howard
  • https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/12/health/us-cancer-deaths-decline-wellness/index.html
• \u201cU.S. Cancer Death Rate Has Fallen 33% Since 1991, Here\u2019s Why\u201d by John Loeppky
  • https://www.healthline.com/health-news/u-s-cancer-death-rate-has-fallen-33-since-1991-heres-why
• \u201cUS cancer deaths drop 33% since 1991, new report says\u201d by J Oliver Conroy
  • https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/14/us-cancer-deaths-drop-third-since-1991-new-report-says
• \u201cCancer statistics, 2023\u201d by Rebecca L. Siegel MPH et al.
  • https://acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.3322/caac.21763

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