The Invention of Dragons

2017-01-17

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“Vitality — that is the test; and, whatever its components, mere truth is not necessarily one of them. A dragon, for instance, is a more enduring animal than a pterodactyl. I have never yet met anyone who really believed in a pterodactyl; but every honest person believes in dragons — down in the back-kitchen of his consciousness.”

-Kenneth Grahame

Outro Song: Just A Ride by Rishloo

http://www.rishloo.com/

https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/living-as-ghosts-buildings/id976469574

BOOKS

The Reluctant Dragon by Kenneth Grahame on Amazon

http://geni.us/TheReluctantDragon

The Fruit, The Tree, And The Serpent: Why We See So Well by Lynne A. Isbell on Amazon

http://geni.us/TheFruitTreeSerpent

An Instinct For Dragons by David E. Jones on Amazon

http://geni.us/AnInstinctForDragons

The Dragons Of Eden by Carl Sagan on Amazon

http://geni.us/TheDragonsofEden

Kenneth Graham Biography by Peter Green on Amazon

http://geni.us/KennethGrahame

Dragons: The Myths, Legends and Lore by Doug Niles on Amazon

http://geni.us/MythsLegendsandLore

Dragons And Unicorns: A Natural History by Paul A. Johnsgard on Amazon

http://geni.us/DragonsandUnicorns

Dragons: A Natural History by Karl P. N. Shuker on Amazon

http://geni.us/DragonsANaturalHistory

Venomous: How Earth’s Deadliest Creatures Mastered Biochemistry by Christie Wilcox on Amazon

http://geni.us/Venemous

RESEARCH PAPERS

Conditioned Electrodermal Responses To Masked Fear-Relevant Stimuli

https://goo.gl/wiM9sE

On The Automatic Nature Of Phobic Fear

https://goo.gl/v94ovh

Testing The Snake-Detection Hypothesis

https://goo.gl/IICPk6

The Hidden Snake In The Grass

https://goo.gl/Kj2uOs

Humans Recognize Partially Obscured Snakes More Easily Than Other Animals

https://goo.gl/oPyjad

The Origin of Snake And Spider Fear

https://goo.gl/ViXJDs

The Narrow Fellow In The Grass

https://goo.gl/vwId37

ARTICLES

Afraid of Snakes? Your Pulvinar May Be To Blame by Carl Zimmer

https://goo.gl/hoJGtu

Fear Of Snakes, Spiders Rooted In Evolution by John Roach

https://goo.gl/nOMD5h

When You Were A Baby, You Were Not Scared Of Snakes by Melissa Hogenboom

https://goo.gl/TbNNnL

Why We Are Afraid Of Snakes by Ann Lukits

https://goo.gl/AMzJBh

Are Humans Predisposed To Fear Snakes by Nathan H. Lents

https://goo.gl/cRqIUe

Scientists Have A Scary Theory About Why Human Vision Evolved by Meghan Bartels

https://goo.gl/3NGnvv

East vs West Dragons

https://goo.gl/hpharX

NPR Lynne Isbell Snake Detection Theory

https://goo.gl/tN9rPQ

https://goo.gl/qlqOMW

Ancestor Of All Placental Mammals

https://goo.gl/AucczE

ASSET CREDITS

Fire-Breathing Dragon Sound Effect by CGEffex

https://goo.gl/RKR589

Tablet V Photo of Epic of Gilgamesh by Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin

https://goo.gl/uHeImk

https://goo.gl/Z9P820

Spanish Dragon Relief by Alexandre Perez Vigo

https://goo.gl/T78u0Y

Gilgamesh Statue Photos by ZulaikhaN and Samantha

https://goo.gl/OtgIwM

https://goo.gl/EtGjPb

https://goo.gl/3rUZUy

Eastern Dragon Gates picture by Okkisafire

https://goo.gl/88oQfb

Blindsight Experiment 1989

https://goo.gl/gkK3rY

Lemurs Madagascar by Quentin Djaq Le Franc

https://goo.gl/h9cSWG

Lemurs Madagascar r by Andrew Quitmeyer

https://goo.gl/LwWX3U

World Map by Nicholas Raymond Changes Made

https://goo.gl/SQa7u2

Harlow’s Studies On Dependency In Monkeys

https://goo.gl/Y5iFf7

UCF In Print - David Jones

https://goo.gl/tJ962k

Die Nibelungen by Fritz Lang (1924)

https://goo.gl/6yiKwD

Artwork By

Darrell K. Sweet

Edward Burne-Jones

Bernat Martorell

George Timothy Tobin

Arthur Rackham

Briton Rivière

Viktor Vasnetsov

Qasim ibn ’Ali

Ogata Gekko

Donn P Crane

Konstantin Vasilyev

Thomas Cooper Gotch

Chen Rong

William Blake

Harold Nelson

Leonardo Da Vinci

Emil Doepler

Solomon Joseph Solomon

Sir George Ripley

Maximilian Liebenwein

Georg Jenny

Ulisse Aldrovandi

John Bauer

Gustav Doré

Caravaggio

VSAUCE CREDITS

Written, Produced, Edited and Hosted by Kevin Lieber

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Contributing Researcher & Editor Matthew Tabor, Koala Fight Media

http://koala.fm/

VFX by Eric Langlay

https://www.youtube.com/c/ericlanglay

Sound Design by Jay Pellizzi

http://jaypellizzi.com/

Select Music by Jake Chudnow

https://www.youtube.com/user/jakechudnow

Special Thanks Hopi Hoekstra

https://twitter.com/hopihoekstra

Special Thanks Joshua Mark

https://www.ancient.eu/user/JPryst/

Special Thanks Paula Lieber

https://twitter.com/pixichuu

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The Curiosity Box

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