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Podcast: Curiosity Weekly
Episode: From Music to Bacon, Biology is Everywhere (w/ Biologist Melanie Peffer)
Description: Learn about the treadmill’s torture device origins. Then, author Melanie Peffer explains why biology is everywhere.
Treadmills were originally torture devices by Steffie Drucker
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Treadmills Were Meant to Be Atonement Machines | JSTOR Daily. (2018, May 2). JSTOR Daily. https://daily.jstor.org/treadmills-were-meant-to-be-atonement-machines/Â
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BBC. (2017, January 9). Free Thinking - The dark history of the treadmill. BBC; BB...