Blade: blood, colloidal silver aposematism, and scoville testing
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Blade
Silver
Weaponizing silver. Colloidal silver. Papa Smurf. Blue anti-vampire aposematism.
Spray defense
Pepper spray. Garlic spray. The difference between bear spray and self-defense pepper spray. The positives and negatives of fog-mode sprays in vampire club fighting. Johnny Knoxville pain ratings.
Scoville units
Laboratory capsaicin measurement by high-performance liquid chromatography vs the organoleptic method. The obvious unreliability of the original organoleptic (tasting) method.
Blood
Blooooood. Blood drinking. Hemoglobin deficiencies. Heme. Porphyria and the vampire legend. Blood doping.
Sun block
Vampires and ultraviolet sensitivity. “Chemical” and “physical” UV sunblocks.
Decipherment
Decipherment vs translation. Ancient manuscripts. Multispectral imaging. Machine learning supremacy. Making random noise until you know how to play Mario.
Links
Blade: iTunes | Amazon
The World in UV by Veritassium: YouTube
Sunscreen in UV by Physics Girl: YouTube
Red Bull Crashed Ice 2012 Uphill Race: YouTube