Using Lava Lamps to Generate Randomness (w/ Matt Parker), How Ritalin Makes You Focus, and What Bacteria Beneath the Sea Floor Means for Life on Mars
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Curiosity Daily
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Discovery
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audio
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Astronomy, 
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Science & Medicine, 
Self-Help, 
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Technology
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Publication Date |
Apr 27, 2020
Episode Duration |
00:11:11

Learn about how drugs like Ritalin and Adderall actually make you “focus,” how tech companies are using lava lamps to make computers more secure, and why new life discovered at the bottom of the ocean opens up new possibilities for finding life on Mars.

Scientists figured out how Ritalin actually makes you focus by Grant Currin

  • Ritalin and similar medications cause brain to focus on benefits of work, not costs. (2020). EurekAlert! ras031820.php">https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-03/bu-ras031820.php
  • Westbrook, A., van den Bosch, R., Määttä, J. I., Hofmans, L., Papadopetraki, D., Cools, R., & Frank, M. J. (2020). Dopamine promotes cognitive effort by biasing the benefits versus costs of cognitive work. Science, 367(6484), 1362–1366. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaz5891

Additional resources from Matt Parker, stand-up mathematician:

Researchers discover bacteria living in rock beneath the sea floor (which is good news for life on Mars) by Cameron Duke

  • Discovery of life in solid rock deep beneath sea may inspire new search for life on Mars. (2020). EurekAlert! dol033020.php">https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-04/uot-dol033020.php
  • Suzuki, Y., Yamashita, S., Kouduka, M., Ao, Y., Mukai, H., Mitsunobu, S., Kagi, H., D’Hondt, S., Inagaki, F., Morono, Y., Hoshino, T., Tomioka, N., & Ito, M. (2020). Deep microbial proliferation at the basalt interface in 33.5–104 million-year-old oceanic crust. Communications Biology, 3(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-020-0860-1

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Learn about how drugs like Ritalin and Adderall actually make you “focus,” how tech companies are using lava lamps to make computers more secure, and why new life discovered at the bottom of the ocean opens up new possibilities for finding life on Mars.

Learn about how drugs like Ritalin and Adderall actually make you “focus,” how tech companies are using lava lamps to make computers more secure, and why new life discovered at the bottom of the ocean opens up new possibilities for finding life on Mars.

Scientists figured out how Ritalin actually makes you focus by Grant Currin

  • Ritalin and similar medications cause brain to focus on benefits of work, not costs. (2020). EurekAlert! ras031820.php">https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-03/bu-ras031820.php
  • Westbrook, A., van den Bosch, R., Määttä, J. I., Hofmans, L., Papadopetraki, D., Cools, R., & Frank, M. J. (2020). Dopamine promotes cognitive effort by biasing the benefits versus costs of cognitive work. Science, 367(6484), 1362–1366. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaz5891

Additional resources from Matt Parker, stand-up mathematician:

Researchers discover bacteria living in rock beneath the sea floor (which is good news for life on Mars) by Cameron Duke

  • Discovery of life in solid rock deep beneath sea may inspire new search for life on Mars. (2020). EurekAlert! dol033020.php">https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-04/uot-dol033020.php
  • Suzuki, Y., Yamashita, S., Kouduka, M., Ao, Y., Mukai, H., Mitsunobu, S., Kagi, H., D’Hondt, S., Inagaki, F., Morono, Y., Hoshino, T., Tomioka, N., & Ito, M. (2020). Deep microbial proliferation at the basalt interface in 33.5–104 million-year-old oceanic crust. Communications Biology, 3(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-020-0860-1

Subscribe to Curiosity Daily to learn something new every day with Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer. You can also listen to our podcast as part of your Alexa Flash Briefing; Amazon smart speakers users, click/tap “enable” here: https://www.amazon.com/Curiosity-com-Curiosity-Daily-from/dp/B07CP17DJY

 

Find episode transcript here: daily-4e53644e.simplecast.com/episodes/using-lava-lamps-to-generate-randomness-w-matt-parker-how-ritalin-makes-you-focus-and-what-bacteria-beneath-the-sea-floor-means-for-life-on-mars">https://curiosity-daily-4e53644e.simplecast.com/episodes/using-lava-lamps-to-generate-randomness-w-matt-parker-how-ritalin-makes-you-focus-and-what-bacteria-beneath-the-sea-floor-means-for-life-on-mars

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