Learn about why air curtains blast you with air when you walk into certain stores; microbes that survive in the desert by dissolving rocks with acid; and the latest research into how we learn, with help from renowned cognitive neuroscientist Stanislas Dehaene.

That blast of air when you walk into a business has a name: an air curtain by Grant Currin

• Ashish. (2018, March 21). Air Curtain Door At Entrance: Why There Is A Blast Of Air At Mall’s Entrance? Science ABC. is-there-a-blast-of-coldhot-air-at-the-entrances-of-shopping-malls.html">https://www.scienceabc.com/eyeopeners/why-is-there-a-blast-of-coldhot-air-at-the-entrances-of-shopping-malls.html
• Air Curtains 101 | What is an Air Curtain? | Berner. (2020, May 28). Berner. https://berner.com/air-curtains-101/
• L. Wang, Investigation of the Impact of Building Entrance Air Curtain on
• Whole Building Energy Use, Air Movement and Control Association, 2013,
• p. 57. https://www.amca.org/assets/resources/public/userfiles/file/Energy%20Initiative%20Web%20Pages/Air%20Curtain%20Study(1).pdf

Scientists discover microbes that survive in the desert by dissolving rocks with acid by Grant Currin

• Levy, M. G. (2020, May 8). Extreme microbes survive the desert by dissolving rocks with acid. Massive Science. https://massivesci.com/articles/microbes-desert-extremophiles-atacama-rocks-gypsum-mars/
• ARADS Project Designs Tools for Finding Signs of Life. (2018). NASA. https://www.nasa.gov/ames/arads
• Huang, W., Ertekin, E., Wang, T., Cruz, L., Dailey, M., DiRuggiero, J., & Kisailus, D. (2020). Mechanism of water extraction from gypsum rock by desert colonizing microorganisms. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(20), 10681–10687. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2001613117
• Govert Schilling. (2015, July 22). An Astronomer’s Paradise, Chile May Be the Best Place on Earth to Enjoy a Starry Sky. Smithsonian Magazine; Smithsonian Magazine. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/star-trekking-chile-astronomy-180955798/

Additional resources from Stanislas Dehaene:

• Pick up “How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine...for Now” on Amazon https://amazon.com
• uniad. (2016). LAB. UNICOG - Cognitive Neuroimaging Lab. http://www.unicog.org/
• Collège de France faculty bio de-france.fr/site/en-stanislas-dehaene/presentation.htm">https://www.college-de-france.fr/site/en-stanislas-dehaene/presentation.htm
• Follow @StanDehaene on Twitter https://twitter.com/StanDehaene
• Stanislas Dehaene on Google Scholar https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=2Dd5uoIAAAAJ&hl=en

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