Today you’ll learn about a zombie virus recovered from the arctic permafrost and brought back to life, some good news about 26 Australian animal species that have been brought back from the brink, and how a new pill could potentially limit the levels of “bad” cholesterol in the body. 

Zombie Virus 

• “Scientists have revived a ‘zombie’ virus that spent 48,500 years frozen in permafrost.” By Katie Hunt. 2023.
  • https://edition.cnn.com/2023/03/08/world/permafrost-virus-risk-climate-scn/index.html
• “Arctic permafrost is thawing rapidly. It affects us all.” By Katie Hunt. 2022.
  • https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/12/world/permafrost-climate-change-explainer-scn/index.html

Back From the Brink

• “Researchers find 26 Australian species recovered from the brink of extinction.” abc.net. 2023.
  • https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02-24/australian-animals-no-longer-meet-criteria-as-threatened-species/102020276
• “Lights at the end of the tunnel: The incidence and characteristics of recovery for Australian threatened animals.” by Woinarski, et al. 2023.
  • https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006320723000460
• “Humpback whales no longer listed as endangered after major recovery.” by Claudia Long. 2022.
  • https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-02-26/humpback-whales-no-longer-listed-as-endangered/100862644
• “Red List: Summary Statistics.” n.a. N.d.
  • https://www.iucnredlist.org/resources/summary-statistics

Bad Cholesterol

• “Oral pill cuts bad cholesterol by 60% in phase 2 clinical trial” By Michael Irving
  • https://newatlas.com/medical/oral-pill-bad-cholesterol-phase-2-clinical-trial/
• “Efficacy and safety of the oral PCSK9 inhibitor MK-0616: a phase 2b randomized controlled trial” by Christie M. Ballantyne et al.
  • https://www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/j.jacc.2023.02.018
• “What Is the Difference Between Good and Bad Cholesterol?” by Keck Medicine of USC
  • https://www.keckmedicine.org/blog/what-is-the-difference-between-good-and-bad-cholesterol/#:~:text=As%20a%20general%20rule%2C%20HDL,cholesterol%20directly%20to%20your%20arteries.
• “Coronary artery disease” by Mayo Clinic
  • https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/coronary-artery-disease/symptoms-causes/syc-20350613#:~:text=If%20there's%20too%20much%20cholesterol,blood%20flow%20through%20an%20artery.
• “PCSK9 gene” by MedLine Plus
  • https://medlineplus.gov/genetics/gene/pcsk9/#:~:text=The%20PCSK9%20protein%20controls%20the,in%20regulating%20blood%20cholesterol%20levels.

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Today you’ll learn about how scientists are working on developing an injection to treat endometriosis, how bees solve puzzles, and how lemon juice is able to block the formation of kidney stones. 

Endometriosis Shot

• “An antibody injection could one day help people with endometriosis.” By Meghan Rosen. 2023.
  • https://www.sciencenews.org/article/antibody-injection-help-endometriosis
• “Endometriosis.” World Health Organization. 2021.
  • https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/endometriosis#:~:text=Endometriosis%20is%20a%20disease%20characterized,other%20parts%20of%20the%20body.
• “A long-acting anti-IL-8 antibody improves inflammation and fibrosis in endometriosis.” By Ayako Nishimoto-Kakiuchi, et al. 2023.
  • https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scitranslmed.abq5858

Bee Puzzles

• “Bumblebees solve puzzles by watching other bees, just like humans do.” By Sarah Knapton. 2023.
  • https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/03/07/bumblebees-solve-puzzles-watching-bees-just-like-humans-do/
• “Bumblebees feel pain too, and their rights ‘should be protected’.” By Olivia Rudgard. 2022.
  • https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/07/27/bumblebees-can-feel-pain-rights-should-protected/
• “Watch: Bumblebees play with balls just for fun.” Sarah Knapton. 2022.
  • https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/10/27/watch-bumblebees-play-balls-just-fun/

Lemonade Kidney Stones 

• “Here’s how lemon juice may fend off kidney stones.” by Meghan Rosen. 2023.
  • https://www.sciencenews.org/article/lemon-juice-get-rid-kidney-stones
• “Kidney stones grow and dissolve much like geological crystals.” by Aimee Cunningham. 2018.
  • https://www.sciencenews.org/article/kidney-stones-grow-and-dissolve-much-geological-crystals
• “Lemon-Derived Extracellular Vesicle-like Nanoparticles Block the Progression of Kidney Stones by Antagonizing Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress in Renal Tubular Cells.” by Lei Zhang, et al. 2023.
  • https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.nanolett.2c05099

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Today you’ll learn about how remote work is resulting in people having more children than before the pandemic, how scientists are searching for new treatments for acne, and how indigenous groups in South America have a genetic resistance to Chagas disease. 

Remote Work Baby Boom    

• “The Surprising Effects of Remote Work” by Derek Thompson
  • https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2023/03/us-remote-work-impact-fertility-rate-babies/673301/
• “Early Remote Work Impacts on Family Formation” by Lyman Stone and Adam Ozimek
  • https://eig.org/remote-work-family-formation/
• “Career Paths with a Two-Body Problem: Occupational Specialization and Geographic Mobility” by Valeria Rueda and Guillaume Wilemme
  • https://research.upjohn.org/up_workingpapers/346/
• “The Great Pandemic Baby Bump” By Jerusalem Demsas
  • https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/11/pandemic-baby-bump-fertility/671964/

Acne Antibiotics 

• “Antibiotics for acne: Study shows why one works best.” By Isabella Backman. 2023.
  • 03-antibiotics-acne.html">https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-03-antibiotics-acne.html
• “Acne.” National Institutes of Health. 2020.
  • https://www.niams.nih.gov/health-topics/acne#:~:text=Acne%20is%20a%20common%20skin,commonly%20called%20pimples%20or%20zits.

Chagas Infection

• “Genetic adaptations help Amazonian populations resist chaga infection.” n.a. 2023.
  • 03-genetic-amazonian-populations-resist-chagas.html">https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-03-genetic-amazonian-populations-resist-chagas.html
• “Parasites - American Trypanosomiasis (also known as Chagas Disease): Detailed FAQs.” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 2022.
  • https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/chagas/gen_info/detailed.html#intro
• “Amazonian Populations Have Genetic Protection Against Chagas Disease.” n.a. 2023.
  • https://www.technologynetworks.com/genomics/news/amazonian-populations-have-genetic-protection-against-chagas-disease-370944
• “Indigenous people from Amazon show genetic signatures of pathogen-driven selection.” By Caina M. Couto-Silva, et al. 2023.
  • https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abo0234
• “Parasite Drove Natural Selection in Amazonian Indigenous Groups.” By Natalia Mesa, PhD. 2023.
  • scientist.com/news-opinion/parasite-drove-natural-selection-in-amazonian-indigenous-groups-71004">https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/parasite-drove-natural-selection-in-amazonian-indigenous-groups-71004

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Today you’ll learn about how foreign accent syndrome works, how an AI algorithm can create a physical copy of a mental picture, and how invasive marsh grass is taking over China’s coastline.

Foreign Accent Syndrome 

• “Scientists reveal why American man with prostate cancer developed ‘uncontrolled’ Irish accent” by Vishwam Shankaran
  • man-irish-brogue-prostate-cancer-b2292537.html?utm_source=reddit.com">https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/american-man-irish-brogue-prostate-cancer-b2292537.html?utm_source=reddit.com
• “Foreign accent syndrome as a heralding manifestation of transformation to small cell neuroendocrine prostate cancer” by Amanda Broderick et al.
  • https://casereports.bmj.com/content/16/1/e251655
• “After Surgery: Discomforts and Complications” by Johns Hopkins Medicine
  • https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/treatment-tests-and-therapies/after-surgery-discomforts-and-complications
• “A Man’s Prostate Cancer Gave Him An 'Uncontrollable' Irish Accent” by Ed Cara
  • https://gizmodo.com/prostate-cancer-caused-irish-accent-medical-case-1850088239
• “A man in the US got prostate cancer. It made him start speaking with an Irish accent.” by Catherine Schuster-Bruce
  • https://www.insider.com/man-us-prostate-cancer-irish-accent-2023-2

AI Reads Minds  

• “AI re-creates what people see by reading their brain scans” by Kamal Nahas
  • https://www.science.org/content/article/ai-re-creates-what-people-see-reading-their-brain-scans
• “High-resolution image reconstruction with latent diffusion models from human brain activity” by Yu Takagi and Shinji Nishimoto
  • https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.11.18.517004v2

Alien Marsh

• “China battles alien marsh grass at unprecedented scale” by Erik Stokstad
  • https://www.science.org/content/article/china-battles-alien-marsh-grass-unprecedented-scale
• “Spartina invasive management - a review of the evidence” by Sam Reynolds et al.
  • https://osf.io/vpswn
• “China aims to contain proliferation of invasive plant by 2025” by Xinhua
  • https://english.news.cn/20230216/322678d5264347dda95d17f928263b5a/c.html

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Today you’ll learn about how men with physically strenuous jobs have higher testosterone levels and, ahem, sperm counts, about how a researcher studying whales figured out an ancient mystery, and how providing women with more opportunities actually increases men’s life expectancy. 

Men At Work

• “Physically Demanding Work Tied to Male Fertility.” By Miles Martin. 2023.
  • https://hms.harvard.edu/news/physically-demanding-work-tied-male-fertility
• “Secular trends in semen parameters among men attending a fertility center between 2000 and 2017: Identifying potential predictors.” By Minguez-Alarcon, et al. 2018.
  • https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30389382/
• “Why more men are suffering from infertility than ever before.” By Susannah Cahalan. 2021.
  • https://nypost.com/2021/02/20/why-more-men-are-suffering-from-infertility-than-ever-before/
• “Occupational factors and markers of testicular function among men attending a fertility center.” By Minguez-Alarcon, et al. 2023.
  • https://academic.oup.com/humrep/advance-article/doi/10.1093/humrep/dead027/7034534?utm_source=authortollfreelink&utm_campaign=humrep&utm_medium=email&guestAccessKey=87e840cd-75fb-4975-8010-b2705f827fbb&login=false

Whale Interrupted 

• “Ancient texts shed new light on mysterious whale behaviour that ‘captured imagination’.” By Donna Lu. 2023.
  • https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/01/ancient-texts-power-new-light-shed-on-mysterious-whale-behaviour-that-captured-imagination
• “Parallels for cetacean trap feeding and tread-water feeding in the historical record across two millennia.” By McCarthy, Sebo, & Firth. 2023
  • https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mms.13009

Gender Equality 

• “Greater Gender Equality Helps Both Women and Men Live Longer.” George Institute for Global Health. 2023.
  • https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/981404
• “Gender equality related to gender differences in life expectancy across the globe gender equality and life expectancy.” By Ana-Catarina Pinho-Gomes, et al. 2023.
  • https://journals.plos.org/globalpublichealth/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgph.0001214
• “Greater gender equality helps both women and men live longer.” ScienceDaily. 2023.
  • https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/03/230306143509.htm

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Today you’ll learn about whether or not birth order affects how rebellious you are, how researchers are working to turn a human brain into a machine, and what Zimbabwe is doing to try and solve their energy crisis. 

Birth Order   

• “New study disputes the birth order theory that later-born are “born to rebel”” by Laura Staloch
  • https://www.psypost.org/2023/02/new-study-disputes-the-birth-order-theory-that-later-born-are-born-to-rebel-68636
• “Birth order, personality, and tattoos: A pre-registered empirical test of the ‘born to rebel’ hypothesis” by Gareth Richards et al.
  • https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886922005487
• “Rebelling Against Born to Rebel” by Frederic Townsend (PAYWALL, first page free)
  • https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1061736197900096
• “Steppenwolf’s Jerry Edmonton: The Man With The ‘Born To Be Wild’ Beat” by Paul Sexton
  • https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/jerry-edmonton-steppenwolf-drummer/
• “Mars Bonfire” by AllMusic
  • https://www.allmusic.com/artist/mars-bonfire-mn0000793570

Braincell Computers 

• “Scientists unveil plan to create biocomputers powered by human brain cells” by FRONTIERS
  • https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/980084
• “Organoid intelligence (OI): the new frontier in biocomputing and intelligence-in-a-dish” by Lena Smirnova et al.
  • https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/science/articles/10.3389/fsci.2023.1017235
• “What lab-grown 'mini-brains' are revealing about this mysterious organ” by Clare Wilson
  • https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25533962-300-what-lab-grown-mini-brains-are-revealing-about-this-mysterious-organ/

Zimbabwe Hydro

• “In Zimbabwe, drought is driving a hydropower crisis—and a search for alternatives” BY ANDREW MAMBONDIYANI
  • https://www.science.org/content/article/zimbabwe-drought-driving-hydropower-crisis-and-search-alternatives
• “A Grid for all Seasons: Enhancing the Integration of Variable Solar and Wind Power in Electricity Systems Across Africa” by Sebastian Sterl
  • https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40518-021-00192-6
• “Hydropower plans in eastern and southern Africa increase risk of concurrent climate-related electricity supply disruption” by Declan Conway, Carole Dalin, Willem A. Landman & Timothy J. Osborn
  • https://www.nature.com/articles/s41560-017-0037-4
• “Potential for Battery Energy Storage System in Zimbabwe” by Njovana G. Allen et al.
  • https://www.jree.ir/article_155040.html
• “Biomass explained” by EIA
  • gas-and-biogas.php">https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/biomass/landfill-gas-and-biogas.ph

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Today you’ll learn about neighborhood 3D-printed by a robot, a 4,500 year-old secret chamber recently discovered in the Great Pyramid of Giza, and about research that shows a genetic link between blood sugar and migraines. 

3D-Printed Community 

• “The World’s Largest 3D-Printed Neighborhood Is Here” by Todd Woody, 2023.
  • https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2023-3d-printed-houses-austin-texas/?cmpid=BBD030323_GREENDAILY&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=230303&utm_campaign=greendaily&sref=5p3yLRks
• “The Genesis Collection.” iconbuild.com, N.D. (no date).
  • https://www.iconbuild.com/homes/genesis-collection-at-wolf-ranch
• “Is the Revolution of 3D-Printed Building Getting Closer?” by Thessa Lageman, 2019.
  • https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-11/3d-printed-architecture-more-evolution-than-revolution?sref=aiiNijqZ
• “Construction Has an Immense Environmental Impact - and the Industry Must Change.” by Rayna Skiver, 2022.
  • https://www.greenmatters.com/community/how-does-construction-affect-the-environment
• “Sustainable Management of Construction and Demolition Materials,” EPA Website. N.D.
  • https://www.epa.gov/smm/sustainable-management-construction-and-demolition-materials
• “U.S. construction industry - statistics & facts.” Statista Website. N.D.
  • https://www.statista.com/topics/974/construction/#topicOverview
• “What has caused the global housing crisis - and how can we fix it?” by Victoria Masterson, 2022.
  • https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/06/how-to-fix-global-housing-crisis/

Secret Chamber in Giza  

• “Scientists have mapped a secret hidden corridor in Great Pyramid of Giza | Ars Technica. Jennifer Ouellette. 2023
  • https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/03/scientists-have-mapped-a-secret-hidden-corridor-in-great-pyramid-of-giza/
• “#ScanPyramids - First conclusive findings with muography on Khufu Pyramid.” Press Release from Scan Pyramids Mission. 2016.
  • http://www.hip.institute/press/HIP_INSTITUTE_CP9_EN.pdf
• Italy’s famous dome is cracking, and cosmic rays could help save it.” Jennifer Ouellette. 2018.
  • https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/08/cosmic-rays-could-help-unlock-the-secrets-of-brunelleschis-dome/
• “Muon Tomography.” Wikipedia.
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muon_tomography#:~:text=Muon%20tomography%20or%20muography%20is,Coulomb%20scattering%20of%20the%20muons.
• “Hidden Corridor in Egypt’s Great Pyramid mapped with cosmic rays.” Chris Stokel-Walker. 2023.
  • https://www.newscientist.com/article/2362300-hidden-corridor-in-egypts-great-pyramid-mapped-with-cosmic-rays/
• “These are the world’s tallest structures throughout history.” Iman Ghosh. 2019.
  • https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/09/tallest-historical-structures#:~:text=The%20Stone%20Age%3A%208000%20%E2%80%94%202570%20BCE&text=Experts%20estimate%20that%20the%20Tower,to%20mark%20the%20summer%20solstice.

Migraine Hope 

• “Genetic links between migraine and blood sugar levels confirmed.” Author unlisted. 2023
  • https://www.qut.edu.au/news?id=185398
• “Cross-trait analyses identify shared genetics between migraine, headache, and glycemic traits, and a causal relationship with fasting proinsulin.” Islam, M.R. 2023
  • https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00439-023-02532-6
• “Migraine.” Amaal Starling, M.D. & Mayo Clinic Staff. N.D.
  • https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/migraine-headache/symptoms-causes/syc-20360201#:~:text=A%20migraine%20is%20a%20headache,sensitivity%20to%20light%20and%20sound.
• “The Costs of Migraines.” No Listed Author. N.D.
  • https://www.themigrainereliefcenter.com/costs-of-migraines/#:~:text=According%20to%20an%2

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Today we discuss the link between gastrointestinal disorders and mental health, how the path you take walking through a crowd can be predicted by mathematics, and how we’ve now witnessed an example of super propulsion in nature for the first time! 

GERD Anxiety 

• “The causal role of gastroesophageal reflux disease in anxiety disorders and depression: A bidirectional Mendelian randomization study” by Youjie Zeng, Si Cao, and Heng Yang
  • https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1135923/full
• “Linking the Gut and the Mind: New Evidence Shows GERD May Increase Risk of Anxiety and Depression” by Heng Yang, Youjie Zeng, and Si Cao
  • https://oa.mg/blog/gerd-may-increase-risk-of-anxiety-and-depression/
• “Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD)” by Mayo Clinic
  • https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/gerd/symptoms-causes/syc-20361940#:~:text=Gastroesophageal%20reflux%20disease%20(GERD)%20occurs,reflux%20from%20time%20to%20time.
• “GERD (Chronic Acid Reflux)” by Cleveland Clinic
  • https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/17019-gerd-or-acid-reflux-or-heartburn-overview

Crowd Math 

• “Lane nucleation in complex active flows” by KAROL A. BACIK, BOGDAN S. BACIK, AND TIM ROGERS
  • https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.add8091
• “Stick to your lane: Hidden order in chaotic crowds” by University of Bath
  • 03-lane-hidden-chaotic-crowds.html">https://phys.org/news/2023-03-lane-hidden-chaotic-crowds.html
• “Mathematicians have discovered the hidden patterns that exist within ‘chaotic’ crowds” by Connie Lin
  • https://www.fastcompany.com/90860429/mathematics-of-crowds-patterns-theory

Insect Catapult  

• “Droplet superpropulsion in an energetically constrained insect” by Elio J. Challita, Prateek Sehgal, Rodrigo Krugner & M. Saad Bhamla
  • https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-36376-5
• “Insect that flings pee with a butt catapult is 1st known example of 'superpropulsion' in nature” By Charles Q. Choi
  • https://www.livescience.com/insect-that-flings-pee-with-a-butt-catapult-is-1st-known-example-of-superpropulsion-in-nature
• “Sharpshooter Insects Use ‘Superpropulsion’ to Catapult Their Pee” by Jack Tamisiea
  • https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/sharpshooter-insects-use-superpropulsion-to-catapult-their-pee1/

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Today you’ll learn about how children raised by same sex couples are just as psychologically healthy as other kids, how face blindness might be way more common than we think, and how paid sick leave is now scientifically proven to benefit both businesses and employees.

Same Sex Same Kids  

• “Children of same-sex couples fare at least as well as in other families - study.” By Nicola Davis. 2023
  • https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/mar/06/children-of-same-sex-couples-fare-at-least-as-well-as-in-other-families-study
• “Children raised by same-sex parents do as well as their peers, study shows.” by Anne Davies. 2017.
  • https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/oct/23/children-raised-by-same-sex-parents-do-as-well-as-their-peers-study-shows
• “Family outcome disparities between sexual minority and heterosexual families: a systematic review and meta-analysis.” By Yun Zhang, et al. 2023
  • https://gh.bmj.com/content/8/3/e010556
• “Kids Raised By Same-Sex Parents Fare Same As - Or Better Than - Kids Of Straight Couples, Research Finds.” By Robert Hart. 2023.
  • https://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthart/2023/03/06/kids-raised-by-same-sex-parents-fare-same-as-or-better-than-kids-of-straight-couples-research-finds/?sh=4fa01ad77738

Face Blindness 

• “How Common Is Face Blindness?” by Dennis Nealon
  • https://hms.harvard.edu/news/how-common-face-blindness
• “What is the prevalence of developmental prosopagnosia? An empirical assessment of different diagnostic cutoffs” by Joseph DeGutis
  • https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0010945223000138?via%3Dihub
• “Prosopagnosia (face blindness)” by NHS
  • https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/face-blindness/#:~:text=There's%20no%20treatment%20for%20prosopagnosia,do%20to%20help%20recognise%20people.

Paid Sick Leave 

• “NEW STUDY FINDS OFFERING PAID SICK LEAVE IS GOOD FOR U.S. BUSINESS” BY GISELE GALOUSTIAN
  • https://www.fau.edu/newsdesk/articles/paid-sick-leave-business-study
• “Is paid sick leave bad for business? A systematic review” by Candice Vander Weerdt, Patricia Stoddard‐Dare, and LeaAnne DeRigne
  • https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ajim.23469
• “What is presenteeism? The price of productivity loss” by Lauren Payne
  • https://www.enhesa.com/resources/article/what-is-presenteeism-the-price-of-productivity-loss/#:~:text=The%20cost%20of%20presenteeism%20for%20companies&text=An%20American%20Productivity%20Audit%20estimates,billion%20US%20dollars%20per%20year.
• “Presenteeism: At Work—But Out of It” by Paul Hemp
  • https://hbr.org/2004/10/presenteeism-at-work-but-out-of-it

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Today you’ll learn about how archaeologists have found evidence of brain surgery from the Bronze era in the Middle East, how 3D-printed hearts are becoming closer to a reality than ever before, and the recent discovery of how a black hole is eating a dust cloud in space. 

Ancient Brain Surgery

• “Archaeologists uncover early evidence of brain surgery in Ancient Near East” by Brown University
  • https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/02/230222141115.htm
• “Cranial trephination and infectious disease in the Eastern Mediterranean: The evidence from two elite brothers from Late Bronze Megiddo, Israel” by Rachel Kalisher et al.
  • https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0281020
• “Ancient Legacy of Cranial Surgery” by Mohammad Ghannaee Arani, Esmaeil Fakharian, and Fahimeh Sarbandi
  • https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3876527/#:~:text=According%20to%20the%20French%20physician,mentally%20ill%20people%20(4).
• “Clues to Bronze Age cranial surgery revealed in ancient bones” by Ari Daniel
  • https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/02/22/1158721573/clues-to-bronze-age-cranial-surgery-revealed-in-ancient-bones
• “Curiosities of medical history: Trepanation” by Maria Cohut
  • https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/326281

3D Heart  

• “Custom, 3D-printed heart replicas look and pump just like the real thing” by Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/02/230222141222.htm
• “Soft robotic patient-specific hydrodynamic model of aortic stenosis and ventricular remodeling” by LUCA ROSALIA et al.
  • https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scirobotics.ade2184

Supermassive Black Hole 

• “A mysterious object is being dragged into the supermassive black hole at the Milky Way’s center” by Holly Ober
  • https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/X7-debris-cloud-near-supermassive-black-hole
• “The Swansong of the Galactic Center Source X7: An Extreme Example of Tidal Evolution near the Supermassive Black Hole” by Anna Ciurlo et al.
  • https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/acb344
• “A black hole is destroying this object. Scientists are watching its last days.” by Mark Kaufman
  • https://mashable.com/article/black-hole-destroying-object-milky-way-galaxy

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Today we discuss how infants beat out AI when it comes to common sense, how fruit flies’ use of magnetoreceptors can teach about humans, and what depression has to do with your posture. 

Infant Common Sense 

• “Commonsense psychology in human infants and machines” by Gala Stojnić et al.
  • https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010027723000409
• “Infants Outperform AI in “Commonsense Psychology”” by James Devitt
  • https://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2023/february/infants-outperform-ai-in--commonsense-psychology-.html
• “Careers Up Close: Moira R. Dillon on Infants and Children, Humanlike AI, and Commonsense Psychology” by Moira R. Dillon
  • https://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/careers-up-close-moira-dillon
• “AI-powered Bing Chat spills its secrets via prompt injection attack [Updated]” by BENJ EDWARDS
  • https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/02/ai-powered-bing-chat-spills-its-secrets-via-prompt-injection-attack/

Magnetoreception 

• “Animals' 'sixth sense' is more widespread than previously thought” by University of Manchester
  • 02-animals-sixth-widespread-previously-thought.html">https://phys.org/news/2023-02-animals-sixth-widespread-previously-thought.html
• “Essential elements of radical pair magnetosensitivity in Drosophila” by Adam A. Bradlaugh
  • https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-05735-z
• “Magnetism in Animals” by Apex Magnets
  • https://www.apexmagnets.com/news-how-tos/magnetism-in-animals/#:~:text=Animals%20known%20to%20have%20magnetoreception,conditions%20of%20the%20magnetic%20field.

Depression Posture 

• “A New Bodily Approach for Treating Anxiety and Depression” by Vanessa Lancaster
  • https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/finding-a-new-home/202301/a-new-bodily-approach-for-treating-anxiety-and-depression
• “Motor alterations in depression and anxiety disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis” by Emma Elkjær et al.
  • https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36037990/
• “How can emotions be both cognitive and bodily?” by Michelle Maiese
  • https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11097-014-9373-z
• “Evolution and function of multimodal courtship displays” by Clémentine Mitoyen, Cliodhna Quigley, and Leonida Fusani
  • https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/eth.12882

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Today you’ll learn about a robot with the ability to pick up a single drop of water, how scientists have created a computer algorithm that can predict Malaria hotspots, and what naked mole rats have to teach us about human fertility. 

One Drop Robot 

• “New robot can pick up a single drop of liquid” by Stephen Ornes
  • https://www.snexplores.org/article/innovation-2023-robot-can-pick-up-drop-of-liquid
• “On-demand, remote and lossless manipulation of biofluid droplets” by Wei Wang et al. (PAYWALL)
  • https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2022/mh/d2mh00695b
• “Novel soft robotic droplet manipulator for hazardous liquid cleanup” by ASHWINI SAKHARKAR
  • https://www.inceptivemind.com/novel-soft-robotic-droplet-manipulator-hazardous-liquid-cleanup/28367/
• “Soft Robotics” by Techopedia
  • https://www.techopedia.com/definition/32895/soft-robotics

Malaria Forecast 

• “WHO Coronavirus Dashboard”
  • https://covid19.who.int/
• “New analysis could help forecast malaria outbreaks” by Rob Jordan
  • 02-analysis-malaria-outbreaks.html">https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-02-analysis-malaria-outbreaks.html
• “Climatic, land-use and socio-economic factors can predict malaria dynamics at fine spatial scales relevant to local health actors: Evidence from rural Madagascar” by Julie D. Pourtois et al.
  • https://journals.plos.org/globalpublichealth/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgph.0001607
• “Estimating the local spatio‐temporal distribution of malaria from routine health information systems in areas of low health care access and reporting” by Elizabeth Hyde et al.
  • healthgeographics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12942-021-00262-4">https://ij-healthgeographics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12942-021-00262-4

Naked Mole Rat Fertility 

• “Naked mole rats reveal biological secrets of lifelong fertility” by Christa Lesté-Lasserre
  • https://www.newscientist.com/article/2360377-naked-mole-rats-reveal-biological-secrets-of-lifelong-fertility/
• “Postnatal oogenesis leads to an exceptionally large ovarian reserve in naked mole-rats” by Miguel Angel Brieño-Enríquez et al.
  • https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-36284-8
• “Germ cell nests in adult ovaries and an unusually large ovarian reserve in the naked mole-rat” by Ned J. Place et al.
  • 20-0304.xml">https://rep.bioscientifica.com/view/journals/rep/161/1/REP-20-0304.xml

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Today you’ll learn about how scientists are using AI to talk to animals, the discovery of new, very big, very old candidate galaxies, and how there just may be an extra layer in the earth’s inner core.

AI Animal Translator 

• “How Scientists Are Using AI to Talk to Animals” by Sophie Bushwick
  • https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-scientists-are-using-ai-to-talk-to-animals/
• “Bat Chatter Is More Than a Cry in the Dark” By Christopher Intagliata
  • https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/bat-chatter-is-more-than-a-cry-in-the-dark/
• “In Honeybee Dance, Direction Is Key” By Kate Wong
  • https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/in-honeybee-dance-directi/

Big Old Galaxies  

• “Webb telescope spots super old, massive galaxies that shouldn’t exist” by Daniel Strain
  • https://www.colorado.edu/today/2023/02/22/webb-telescope-spots-super-old-massive-galaxies-shouldnt-exist
• “A population of red candidate massive galaxies ~600 Myr after the Big Bang” by Ivo Labbé et al.
  • https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-05786-2
• “New space telescope to peer back at the universe’s first galaxies” by Daniel Strain
  • https://www.colorado.edu/today/2021/11/10/new-space-telescope-peer-back-universes-first-galaxies
• “First Galaxies Born Sooner After Big Bang Than Thought” By Space.com Staff (from 2011; for compare/contrast on old data versus new)
  • galaxies-formation-big-bang-hubble-telescope.html">https://www.space.com/11386-galaxies-formation-big-bang-hubble-telescope.html
• “How Did Galaxies Form?” by David J. Eicher (from 2019; same note as above link)
  • https://astronomy.com/magazine/greatest-mysteries/2019/07/5-how-did-galaxies-form
• “Two Remarkably Luminous Galaxy Candidates at z ≈ 10–12 Revealed by JWST” by Rohan P. Naidu et al.
  • https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ac9b22
• “Quasars: Brightest Objects in the Universe” By Nola Taylor Tillman
  • galaxies-formation-big-bang-hubble-telescope.html">https://www.space.com/11386-galaxies-formation-big-bang-hubble-telescope.html

Inner Inner Core

• “Bouncing seismic waves reveal distinct layer in Earth's inner core” by AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY
  • https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/980308
• “Up-to-fivefold reverberating waves through the Earth’s center and distinctly anisotropic innermost inner core” by Thanh-Son Phạm & Hrvoje Tkalčić
  • https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-36074-2
• “Core” by National Geographic
  • https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/core/

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Today we discuss how early morning classes at universities could be leading to poor academic performance, how scientists uncovered the world’s oldest runestone, and a new breakthrough treatment in postpartum depression. 

School Sleep

• “Early morning university classes are associated with impaired sleep and academic performance” by Sing Chen Yeo et al.
  • https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-023-01531-x
• “Study: Early Classes Connected to Poor Academic Performance” by Safia Abdulahi
  • https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2023/02/22/study-early-classes-connected-poor-academic-performance#:~:text=A%20new%20study%20found%20that,analyzed%20university%20students'%20digital%20traces.
• “Early Morning College Classes Correlated With Poor Academic Performance, Large Study Finds” by James Felton
  • https://www.iflscience.com/early-morning-college-classes-correlated-with-poor-academic-performance-large-study-finds-67627
• “New Study: Lack of Sleep Hurts Students’ Grades” by Scott Jaschik
  • https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2023/02/17/new-study-lack-sleep-hurts-students%E2%80%99-grades
• “Nightly sleep duration predicts grade point average in the first year of college” by J. David Creswell et al.
  • https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2209123120

Ancient Runestone 

• “Norway archaeologists find ‘world’s oldest runestone’” by Associated Press
  • https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/norway-archaeologists-find-worlds-oldest-runestone-rcna66066
• “‘Sensational’ Runestone Discovered in Norway May Be the World’s Oldest” by Brigit Katz
  • https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/sensational-runestone-discovered-in-norway-may-be-the-worlds-oldest-180981470/#:~:text='Sensational'%20Runestone%20Discovered%20in%20Norway%20May%20Be%20the%20World's%20Oldest,-The%20find%20promises&text=During%20the%20fall%20of%202021,Germanic%20peoples%20of%20northern%20Europe.
• “Archaeologists in Norway find ‘world’s oldest runestone’” by Jan M. Olsen
  • https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/archaeologists-in-norway-find-worlds-oldest-runestone
• “Found the world's oldest rune stone” by University of Oslo
  • the-world-s-oldest-rune-stone.html">https://www.khm.uio.no/english/news/found-the-world-s-oldest-rune-stone.html
• “Runic magic” by National Museum of Denmark
  • https://en.natmus.dk/historical-knowledge/denmark/prehistoric-period-until-1050-ad/the-viking-age/religion-magic-death-and-rituals/runic-magic/

Postpartum Depression Pill

• “Researchers Uncover Mechanisms of Brexanolone and the Role of Inflammation in Post-partum Depression” by UNC Newsroom
  • https://news.unchealthcare.org/2023/02/researchers-uncover-mechanisms-of-brexanolone-and-the-role-of-inflammation-in-post-partum-depression/
• “Brexanolone therapeutics in post-partum depression involves inhibition of systemic inflammatory pathways” by Irina Balan et al.
  • https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352396423000385
• “Postpartum Depression” by Cleveland Clinic
  • https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/9312-postpartum-depression#management-and-treatment

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Today you’ll learn about how scientists are developing a form of birth control for men, why humans need more sleep during the winter, and how whales are giving up singing their love songs in favor of fighting for mates.

Male Contraceptive  

• “Sperm-Slowing Male Contraceptive Reversibly Inhibits Mouse Fertility” by Ruairi J Mackenzie
  • https://www.technologynetworks.com/drug-discovery/news/sperm-slowing-male-contraceptive-reversibly-inhibits-mouse-fertility-370207
• “On-demand male contraception via acute inhibition of soluble adenylyl cyclase” by Melanie Balbach et al.
  • https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-36119-6

Winter Snooze

• “Humans ‘may need more sleep in winter’, study finds” by Jane Clinton
  • https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/feb/17/humans-may-need-more-sleep-in-winter-study-finds
• “Seasonality of human sleep: Polysomnographic data of a neuropsychiatric sleep clinic” by Aileen Seidler et al.
  • https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnins.2023.1105233/full
• “Feeling tired? Humans may need more sleep during the winter, new study suggests” by Wyatte Grantham-Philips
  • https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2023/02/21/more-sleep-needed-winter-study/11280016002/
• “Humans need more sleep in the winter” by Alison Bosman
  • https://www.earth.com/news/humans-need-more-sleep-in-the-winter-season/

Whale Fight Songs

• “Whales give up singing to fight for love” by UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND
  • https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/979939
• “Post-whaling shift in mating tactics in male humpback whales” by Rebecca Dunlop & Celine Frere
  • https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-023-04509-7
• “Global whaling peaked in the 1960s” by Hannah Richie
  • https://ourworldindata.org/whaling#:~:text=At%20its%20peak%20in%20the,to%20manage%20international%20whaling%20stocks.

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Today we discuss how the lost temple of Poseidon may have been discovered, how our circadian rhythms show what time of day is best to exercise, and how researchers decoded a stack of letters written by Mary Queen of Scots during her imprisonment. 

WATCH SHAZAM! FURY OF THE GODS ONLY IN THEATERS MARCH 17. (Rated PG-13)

Poseidon Temple 

• “A lost temple for Poseidon may have finally been rediscovered” by Sara Kiley Watson
  • https://www.popsci.com/science/poseidon-temple-tsunami-greece/
• “Strabo” by Duane W. Roller
  • 9780195389661-0230.xml">https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/document/obo-9780195389661/obo-9780195389661-0230.xml
• “Poseidon” by Greek Gods and Goddesses Encyclopedia
  • https://greekgodsandgoddesses.net/gods/poseidon/#:~:text=Poseidon%20was%20god%20of%20the,%2C%20Demeter%2C%20Hestia%20and%20Hera.
• “Scientists May Have Discovered the Long Lost Temple of Poseidon” by Amanda Kooser
  • https://www.cnet.com/science/scientists-may-have-discovered-long-lost-temple-of-poseidon/
• “Tsunamis buried the cult site on the Peloponnese” by Johannes Gutenberg
  • 07-tsunamis-cult-site-peloponnese.html">https://phys.org/news/2011-07-tsunamis-cult-site-peloponnese.html

Time to Exercise  

• “Time of day may determine the amount of fat burned by exercise” by Felicia Lindberg
  • https://news.ki.se/time-of-day-may-determine-the-amount-of-fat-burned-by-exercise
• “Time of day determines postexercise metabolism in mouse adipose tissue” by Logan A. Pendergrast et al.
  • https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2218510120
• “What to know about circadian rhythm” by Janet Johnson
  • https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/circadian-rhythms
• “Work out at this time of day to burn the most fat: scientists” by Adriana Diaz
  • https://nypost.com/2023/02/14/work-out-at-this-time-of-day-to-burn-the-most-fat-scientists/

Queen of Scots Letters

• “Scientists Decipher 57 Letters That Mary, Queen of Scots Wrote before Her Beheading” by Stephanie Pappas
  • https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientists-decipher-50-letters-from-mary-queen-of-scotts-before-her-beheading1/
• “Deciphering Mary Stuart’s lost letters from 1578-1584” by George Lasry, Norbert Biermann, & Satoshi Tomokiyo
  • https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01611194.2022.2160677

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Today we discuss whether or not firing a gun filled with moon dust into space could cool down the planet, how animals that live in social groups usually live longer than solitary creatures, and a saucy discovery from ancient Rome. 

To Re-Caf Choose Decaf

• “A solution to the climate crisis: mining the moon, researchers say” by Oliver Milman
  • https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/feb/08/moon-dust-moonshot-geoengineering-climate-crisis
• “Dust as a solar shield” by Benjamin C. Bromley ,Sameer H. Khan, and Scott J. Kenyon
  • https://journals.plos.org/climate/article?id=10.1371/journal.pclm.0000133
• “Can geoengineering fix the climate? Hundreds of scientists say not so fast” by Oliver Milman
  • https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/25/can-controversial-geoengineering-fix-climate-crisis
• “Space dust as Earth's sun shield” by University of Utah
  • https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/02/230208155658.htm#:~:text=Summary%3A,the%20impacts%20of%20climate%20change.&text=On%20a%20cold%20winter%20day,of%20the%20sun%20is%20welcome.

Mammal Groups 

• “Mammals that live in groups may live longer, longevity research suggests” by Jake Buehler
  • https://www.sciencenews.org/article/mammals-groups-longevity-genetics
• “Correlated evolution of social organization and lifespan in mammals” by Pingfen Zhu et al.
  • https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-35869-7
• “An 80-Year Harvard Study Found the Secret to a Happy Life” by Bill Murphy Jr
  • 80-year-harvard-study-found-secret-to-a-happy-life-these-9-simple-habits-will-improve-yours.html">https://www.inc.com/bill-murphy-jr/an-80-year-harvard-study-found-secret-to-a-happy-life-these-9-simple-habits-will-improve-yours.html

Roman Sex Toy  

• “Discarded Roman artefact may have been more than a good luck charm” by Newcastle University
  • https://www.ncl.ac.uk/press/articles/latest/2023/02/vindolandaphallus/
• “Touch wood: luck, protection, power or pleasure? A wooden phallus from Vindolanda Roman fort” by Rob Collins and Rob Sands
  • https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/touch-wood-luck-protection-power-or-pleasure-a-wooden-phallus-from-vindolanda-roman-fort/53F4B0838D23DB65F6A244695624102E

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Today you’ll learn about how fingerprints form, how quickly you can determine whether or not you like a song, and how ancient ancestors to homo sapiens were using tools way earlier than we thought! 

Fingerprint Formation 

• “How fingerprints form was a mystery — until now” by McKenzie Prillaman
  • https://www.sciencenews.org/article/fingerprints-form-mystery
• “The developmental basis of fingerprint pattern formation and variation” by James D. Glover et al.
  • https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(23)00045-4?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0092867423000454%3Fshowall%3Dtrue
• “All Patterns Great and Small” By Tina Hesman Saey
  • https://www.sciencenews.org/article/all-patterns-great-and-small
• “Pigment pas de deux puts stripes on zebrafish” by Tina Hesman Saey
  • https://www.sciencenews.org/article/pigment-pas-de-deux-puts-stripes-zebrafish

I Love This Song

• “Knowing We Like a Song Takes Only Seconds of Listening, New Psychology Research Finds” by James Devitt
  • new-psyc.html">https://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2023/january/knowing-we-like-a-song-takes-only-seconds-of-listening--new-psyc.html
• “The Whole is Not Different From its Parts: Music Excerpts are Representative of Songs” by Sara J. Philibotte et al.
  • https://online.ucpress.edu/mp/article-abstract/40/3/220/195231/The-Whole-is-Not-Different-From-its-PartsMusic?redirectedFrom=fulltext

Ancient Tools

• “2.9-million-year-old butchery site in Kenya suggests humans perhaps weren't first to use crafted stone tools” By Genelle Weule
  • https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2023-02-10/fossils-animal-bones-stone-tools-early-hominin-east-africa/101937222
• “Expanded geographic distribution and dietary strategies of the earliest Oldowan hominins and Paranthropus” by THOMAS W. PLUMMER et al.
  • https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abo7452

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Today you’ll learn about how a cure for peanut allergies could be on the way to being a reality, how scientists are looking into treatments for an unreachable itch, and how a new study reports that talking about your financial debt makes you more likely to pay it off. 

Peanut Allergy Blocker 

• “Researchers Block Allergic Reactions to Peanuts in Mice” by Sarah Wheelan
  • https://www.technologynetworks.com/drug-discovery/news/researchers-block-allergic-reactions-to-peanuts-in-mice-370063
• “Peanut allergen inhibition prevents anaphylaxis in a humanized mouse model” by NADA S. ALAKHRAS et al.
  • https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scitranslmed.add6373
• “When peanuts are poison” by Julie McDowell
  • http://pubsapp.acs.org/subscribe/archive/mdd/v05/i05/html/05health.html#:~:text=About%203%20million%20Americans%E2%80%94children,those%20are%20attributed%20to%20peanuts.
• “Racial and Ethnic Data Reported for Peanut Allergy Epidemiology Do Little to Advance Its Cause, Treatment, or Prevention” by Nigel Mark Thomas
  • https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2021.685240/full

Unreachable Itch  

• “Drug Shows Promise Against “Unreachable Itch” Condition” by Molly Campbell
  • https://www.technologynetworks.com/drug-discovery/news/drug-shows-promise-against-unreachable-itch-condition-370062
• “Phase 2 Trial of Difelikefalin in Notalgia Paresthetica” by Brian S. Kim et al.
  • https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2210699?query=featured_home
• “New Formulation of FDA-Approved Drug Shows Encouraging Results for Treating a Common Itch Condition” by Mount Sinai
  • https://www.mountsinai.org/about/newsroom/2023/new-formulation-of-fda-approved-drug-shows-encouraging-results-for-treating-a-common-itch-condition
• “Oral Drug Shows Benefit for Notalgia Paresthetica in Mid-Stage Trial” by Elizabeth Short
  • https://www.medpagetoday.com/dermatology/generaldermatology/103021

Debt Fear

• “Fear of judgment is keeping consumers indebted – study shows peer groups can help turn that around” by UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO, IVEY BUSINESS SCHOOL
  • https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/979755
• “EXPRESS: Helping Those That Hide: Anticipated Stigmatization Drives Concealment and a Destructive Cycle of Debt” by Michael Moorhouse et al.
  • https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00222437221146521

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Today we discuss how decaf coffee can curb symptoms of caffeine withdrawal, how a recent study revealed that those who are rich in money aren’t necessarily rich in intelligence, and a study that looked into cheap and effective preventative cavity treatment. 

To Re-Caf Choose Decaf

• “Decaf coffee reduces caffeine withdrawal – even when you know it’s decaf” by Matthew Warren
  • https://www.bps.org.uk/research-digest/decaf-coffee-reduces-caffeine-withdrawal-even-when-you-know-its-decaf
• “Reduction in caffeine withdrawal after open-label decaffeinated coffee” by Llewellyn Mills et al.
  • https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/02698811221147152

How Smart Are Rich People?

• “The plateauing of cognitive ability among top earners” by Marc Keuschnigg, Arnout van de Rijt, and Thijs Bol
  • https://academic.oup.com/esr/advance-article/doi/10.1093/esr/jcac076/7008955?login=false
• “Extreme earners are not necessarily extremely smart” by Jonas Roslund
  • https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/02/230208125113.htm
• “Understanding the Flaws Behind the IQ Test” By Mira Lazine
  • https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/understanding-the-flaws-behind-the-iq-test

Cavities   

• “School Dental Program Prevents 80 Percent of Cavities with One-Time, Non-Invasive Treatment” by Rachel Harrison
  • dental-program-prevents-80-percent-of-cavities.html">https://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2023/february/school-dental-program-prevents-80-percent-of-cavities.html
• “Effect of Silver Diamine Fluoride on Caries Arrest and Prevention” by Ryan Richard Ruff, Tamarinda Barry-Godín, and Richard Niederman
  • https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2801193
• “Children’s Oral Health” by CDC
  • https://www.cdc.gov/oralhealth/basics/childrens-oral-health/index.html

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Today you’ll learn about how rockets are preventing the ozone layer from healing properly, how researchers are figuring out the smells of the ancient world, and how mother orca whales take care of their sons to ensure the survival of their species.

Rockets Ruin Ozone 

• “A rapidly growing rocket industry could undo decades of work to save the ozone layer – unless we act now” by Laura Revell, Michele Bannister, and Tyler Brown
  • https://theconversation.com/a-rapidly-growing-rocket-industry-could-undo-decades-of-work-to-save-the-ozone-layer-unless-we-act-now-198982
• “Rocket industry could undo decades of work to save the ozone layer” by University of Canterbury
  • industry-could-undo-decades-of-work-to-save-the-ozone-layer.html">https://www.canterbury.ac.nz/news/2023/rocket-industry-could-undo-decades-of-work-to-save-the-ozone-layer.html
• “Ozone layer recovery is on track, due to success of Montreal Protocol” by United Nations
  • https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/01/1132277
• “Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion: 2022” by World Meteorological Organization
  • Assessment-of-Ozone-Depletion-2022-Executive-Summary.pdf">https://ozone.unep.org/system/files/documents/Scientific-Assessment-of-Ozone-Depletion-2022-Executive-Summary.pdf

Neanderthal Smells 

• “Study figured out what ancient humans might have been able to smell” by Pranjal Mehar
  • https://www.techexplorist.com/study-figured-ancient-humans-able-smell/56561/
• “Ancient Humans Had Same Sense of Smell, But Different Sensitivities” by Karl Leif Bates
  • https://today.duke.edu/2023/01/ancient-humans-had-same-sense-smell-different-sensitivities
• Genetic and functional odorant receptor variation in the Homo lineage” by Claire A. de March et al.
  • https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(22)02181-2

Orca Moms 

• “Orca moms baby their adult sons. That favoritism pays off — eventually” by Susan Milius
  • https://www.sciencenews.org/article/orca-mom-sons-favoritism-killer-whale
• “Costly lifetime maternal investment in killer whales” by Michael N. Weiss et al.
  • https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(22)01994-7
• “Killer whales follow postmenopausal leaders” by Susan Milius
  • https://www.sciencenews.org/article/killer-whales-follow-postmenopausal-leaders

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Today you’ll learn about how scientists are using a drug meant for arthritis to mimic blood transfusions, how cinnamon could potentially be improving our brain’s health, and how a new filter is capable of removing 99% of microplastics from water. 

Young Blood

• “Arthritis drug mimics "young blood" transfusions to reverse aging in mice” By Michael Irving
  • https://newatlas.com/medical/arthritis-drug-young-blood-reverses-aging-mice/
• “Stromal niche inflammation mediated by IL-1 signalling is a targetable driver of haematopoietic ageing” by Carl A. Mitchell et al. (PAYWALL)
  • https://www.nature.com/articles/s41556-022-01053-0
• “Will revitalizing old blood slow aging?” by COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IRVING MEDICAL CENTER
  • https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/978861

Cinnamon Memory 

• “Cinnamon and cognitive function: a systematic review of preclinical and clinical studies” by Samaneh Nakhaee et al.
  • https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1028415X.2023.2166436?journalCode=ynns20 (PAYWALL)
• “Cinnamon Improves Your Memory And Cognition” by GrrlScientist
  • https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2023/02/04/cinnamon-improves-your-memory-and-cognition/?sh=2f208d2721ec

Microplastic Filter

• “High-efficiency water filter removes 99.9% of microplastics in 10 seconds” By Michael Irving
  • https://newatlas.com/environment/high-efficiency-water-filter-99-9-microplastics-10-seconds/
• “Supramolecular Engineering of Amorphous Porous Polymers for Rapid Adsorption of Micropollutants and Solar-Powered Volatile Organic Compounds Management” by Wansu Cho et al.
  • https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adma.202206982
• “Meet Gilbert: The robotic fish designed to help clean plastic from our waterways” by Steven Yabionski
  • https://www.foxweather.com/earth-space/meet-gilbert-the-robotic-fish-designed-to-help-clean-plastic-from-our-waterways
• “What are volatile organic compounds (VOCs)?” by EPA
  • https://www.epa.gov/indoor-air-quality-iaq/what-are-volatile-organic-compounds-vocs
• “Eco-friendly materials capable of purifying water at high speed with inexpensive raw materials” by DGIST (Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology)
  • https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/12/221229115647.htm

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Today we discuss what causes a sense of social media fatigue, how scientists are tuning into our brainwaves to make us learn new tasks faster, and how a researcher invented a self-cooling tent that only needs sunshine and water to work. 

Social Media Fatigue 

• “Too much overload and concerns: Antecedents of social media fatigue and the mediating role of emotional exhaustion” by Nan Sheng et al.
  • https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S074756322200320X
• “New research sheds light on the underlying psychological mechanisms linked to social media fatigue” by Emily Manis
  • https://www.psypost.org/2023/02/new-research-sheds-light-on-the-underlying-psychological-mechanisms-linked-to-social-media-fatigue-67670

Brainwave Tuning

• “Tuning into brainwave rhythms speeds up learning in adults” by Fred Lewsey
  • https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/brainwavelearning
• “Learning at your brain’s rhythm: individualized entrainment boosts learning for perceptual decisions” by Elizabeth Michael et al.
  • https://academic.oup.com/cercor/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cercor/bhac426/6814397?login=false

Self-Cooling Tent   

• “A Self-Cooling Tent that Runs on Just Water and Sunshine” by Mac Murray
  • https://today.uconn.edu/2023/01/a-self-cooling-tent-that-runs-on-just-water-and-sunshine/
• “Tent with a solar-powered cooling system and antimicrobial properties” researched by Alei Ahmadi Kasani
  • https://uconn.flintbox.com/technologies/adf221a3-8ce8-471e-8707-18e35656301b
• “Evaluation of titanium alloy as heat absorber for solar-based water treatment system” by Nattadon Pannucharoenwong et al.
  • https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352484721005473
• “UConn researcher invents a self-cooling tent to fight rising temperatures for campers, disaster victims” by Amy Coval
  • researcher-self-cooling-tent-17741837.php">https://www.ctinsider.com/living/article/uconn-researcher-self-cooling-tent-17741837.php
• “Water-cooled tent would drop camping temperatures by up to 20 °F” By C.C. Weiss
  • https://newatlas.com/outdoors/water-cooled-camping-tent/

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Today you’ll learn about how a groundbreaking new study explores the nature of singlehood across the globe, how a new drug might be able to treat alcohol addiction, and how scientists have created a new type of ice that has never been seen on Earth before! 

Global Singlehood 

• “Large-scale cross-cultural study provides insights into mating performance and singlehood” by Mane Kara-Yakoubian
  • https://www.psypost.org/2023/01/large-scale-cross-cultural-study-provides-insights-into-mating-performance-and-singlehood-67199
• “Mating Performance and Singlehood Across 14 Nations” by Menelaos Apostolou et al.
  • https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14747049221150169

Anti-Drinking Pill 

• “Pre-clinical and clinical evidence for suppression of alcohol intake by apremilast” by Kolter B. Grigsby
  • https://www.jci.org/articles/view/159103
• “The FDA-approved drug apremilast suppresses alcohol intake: clinical and pre-clinical validation” by Kolter B. Grigsby et al.
  • https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.05.13.444033v1
• “High Drinking in the Dark Mice: A genetic model of drinking to intoxication” by Amanda M. Barkley-Levenson and John C. Crabbe
  • https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4016107/

Moon Ice

• “Scientists made a new kind of ice that might exist on distant moons” by Jonathan O'Callaghan
  • https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00293-w?utm_source=Nature+Briefing&utm_campaign=a5dcc69734-briefing-dy-20230203&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c9dfd39373-a5dcc69734-42946487
• “SCIENTISTS CREATED A NEW TYPE OF ICE — IT COULD ALSO EXIST ON DISTANT MOONS” by Raoul Rao
  • https://www.inverse.com/science/new-form-of-ice-space
• “With frigid innovation, scientists make a new form of ice” By Will Dunham
  • https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/science/with-frigid-innovation-scientists-make-new-form-ice-2023-02-03/

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Today you’ll learn about how we are able to measure depression through speech patterns, a recent study that explores whether or not eating at a certain time of day affects weight, and how researchers used paintings to assess pollution levels during the industrial revolution. 

Speech Signals of Depression

• “New research indicates signs of depression can be detected in speech patterns” by Laura Staloch
  • https://www.psypost.org/2023/01/new-research-indicates-signs-of-depression-can-be-detected-in-speech-patterns-65196
• “Detecting subtle signs of depression with automated speech analysis in a non-clinical sample” by Alexandra König et al.
  • https://bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12888-022-04475-0

What Time to Eat? 

• “Association of Eating and Sleeping Intervals With Weight Change Over Time: The Daily24 Cohort” by Di Zhao et al.
  • https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/JAHA.122.026484#d2071692e1
• “Total Meals, Not Timing, Drives Long-term Body Weight Changes” by Todd Neale
  • https://www.tctmd.com/news/total-meals-not-timing-drives-long-term-body-weight-changes

Monet Haze

• “That dreamy haze in Monet’s impressionist paintings? Air pollution, study says.” By Kasha Patel
  • https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/01/31/air-pollution-impressionism-monet-turner/?utm_source=reddit.com
• “Paintings by Turner and Monet depict trends in 19th century air pollution” by Anna Lea Albright and Peter Huybers
  • https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2219118120
• “Garden at Sainte-Adresse” by The MET
  • https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437133

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Today we discuss how the pandemic has caused physical changes in the brains of teenagers, how geomagnetic disturbances can cause bird migration to go haywire, and why pregnancies in the US are a week and a half shorter on average than they are elsewhere. 

Pandemic Brain

• “Brain scans suggest the pandemic prematurely aged teens’ brains” by Freda Kreier
  • https://www.sciencenews.org/article/covid-pandemic-prematurely-aged-teens-brains
• “Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Mental Health and Brain Maturation in Adolescents: Implications for Analyzing Longitudinal Data” by Ian H. Gotlib et al.
  • https://www.bpsgos.org/article/S2667-1743(22)00142-2/fulltext
• “Why Do Some Brains Look Old Prematurely?” by Technology Networks
  • https://www.technologynetworks.com/neuroscience/news/why-do-some-brains-look-old-prematurely-355981#:~:text=Individuals%20can%20have%20brains%20that,bigger%20ventricles%20and%20thinner%20cortex.

Magnetic Migration 

• “When migrating birds go astray, disturbances in magnetic field may be partly to blame” by Holly Ober
  • https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/birds-vagrancy-geomagnetic-field
• “Geomagnetic disturbance associated with increased vagrancy in migratory landbirds” by Benjamin A. Tonelli et al.
  • https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-26586-0

Short Pregnancies  

• Average Pregnancy Length Shorter in the US Than European Countries” by Molly Campbell
  • https://www.technologynetworks.com/diagnostics/news/average-pregnancy-length-shorter-in-the-us-than-european-countries-369484
• “The natural pattern of birth timing and gestational age in the U.S. compared to England, and the Netherlands” by Eugene Declercq et al.
  • https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0278856
• “Average Pregnancy Length in the US Is Shorter than in European Countries” by University of Oxford
  • https://www.npeu.ox.ac.uk/news/2359-average-pregnancy-length-in-the-us-is-shorter-than-in-european-countries

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Today you’ll learn about whether or not melatonin can be used to treat anxiety, the development of a laser that can change the path of lightning, and how a recent study shows that children are hard-wired to empathize with dogs! 

Melatonin Anxiety 

• “Melatonin as a Potential Approach to Anxiety Treatment” by Kristina Repova et al.
  • https://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/23/24/16187
• “How Melatonin for Sleep May Help Your Anxiety Symptoms” by Atlanova
  • https://atlanova.com/how-melatonin-for-sleep-may-help-your-anxiety-symptoms/
• “Can You Use Melatonin to Help Ease Anxiety?” by Alan Carter
  • https://www.healthline.com/health/anxiety/melatonin-for-anxiety
• “Melatonin for anxiety: effectiveness, dosage, side effects” by Patricia Weiser
  • https://ro.co/health-guide/melatonin-for-anxiety/
• “Free radicals, antioxidants and functional foods: Impact on human health” by V. Lobo et al.
  • https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3249911/#:~:text=If%20free%20radicals%20overwhelm%20the,in%20coping%20this%20oxidative%20stress.
• “Stress, Oxidative Injury and Disease” by Kaushal K. Srivastava and Ratan Kumar
  • https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4310835/

Lightning Laser  

• “A powerful laser can redirect lightning strikes” by Maria Temming
  • https://www.sciencenews.org/article/laser-lightning-rod-electricity
• “Laser-guided lightning” by Aurélien Houard et al.
  • https://www.sciencenews.org/article/laser-lightning-rod-electricity
• “Superfast laser pulses could pave way for beam weapons” by Andrew Grant
  • https://www.sciencenews.org/article/superfast-laser-pulses-could-pave-way-beam-weapons

Toddler’s Best Friend 

• “Toddlers may be wired to help their dog friends” by Laura Baisas
  • https://www.popsci.com/science/toddlers-help-dogs/
• “Do children help dogs spontaneously?” by Rachna B. Reddy et al.
  • https://www.cabidigitallibrary.org/doi/10.1079/hai.2023.0001

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Today you’ll learn about how ancient Roman concrete can heal itself, the recent discovery of a virovore, and how a new study looks into whether or not we can control feelings of guilt through the placebo effect. 

Roman Concrete Magic 

• “Scientists may have found magic ingredient behind ancient Rome’s self-healing concrete” by Jacklin Kwan
  • https://www.science.org/content/article/scientists-may-have-found-magic-ingredient-behind-ancient-romes-self-healing-concrete#:~:text=The%20Romans%20were%20not%20the,majority%20of%20their%20construction%20projects.
• “Why modern mortar crumbles, but Roman concrete lasts millennia” by ZAHRA AHMAD
  • https://www.science.org/content/article/why-modern-mortar-crumbles-roman-concrete-lasts-millennia

Virovore 

• “First "virovore" discovered: An organism that eats viruses” By Michael Irving
  • https://newatlas.com/science/first-virovore-eats-viruses/
• “The consumption of viruses returns energy to food chains” by John P. DeLong et al.
  • https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2215000120

Placebo Guilt

• “Placebos reduce feelings of guilt – even when people know they’re taking one” by Jeremy Howick
  • https://theconversation.com/placebos-reduce-feelings-of-guilt-even-when-people-know-theyre-taking-one-197919
• “Deceptive and open-label placebo effects in experimentally induced guilt: a randomized controlled trial in healthy subjects” by Dilan Sezer, Cosima Locher & Jens Gaab
  • https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-25446-1

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Today we discuss how using gas stoves has caused a huge uptick in childhood asthma, how motor memory is developed while we sleep, and how scientists are working to save the larvae of coral reefs! 

Gasthma

• “Population Attributable Fraction of Gas Stoves and Childhood Asthma in the United States” by Talor Gruenwald et al.
  • https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/20/1/75
• “Gas stove pollution causes 12.7% of childhood asthma, study finds” by Maxine Joselow and Vanessa Montalbano
  • https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/01/06/gas-stove-pollution-causes-127-childhood-asthma-study-finds/

Sleep Memory 

• “During sleep, brain regions synchronize to create motor memory” by UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - SAN FRANCISCO
  • https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/974905
• “Cortical–hippocampal coupling during manifold exploration in motor cortex” by Jaekyung Kim et al.
  • https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05533-z

Frozen Reefs 

• “Scientists freeze Great Barrier Reef coral in world-first trial” By Jill Gralow
  • https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/science/scientists-freeze-great-barrier-reef-coral-world-first-trial-2022-12-19/
• “Scientists pioneer ‘game-changing’ freezing technique that could save the Great Barrier Reef’s coral” by Charlotte Elton
  • https://www.euronews.com/green/2022/12/19/scientists-pioneer-game-changing-freezing-technique-that-could-save-the-great-barrier-reef
• “Scientists Freeze Great Barrier Reef Coral” by GKToday
  • https://www.gktoday.in/topic/scientists-freeze-great-barrier-reef-coral/
• “What is coral bleaching?” by National Ocean Service
  • https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/coral_bleach.html
• “SCIENTISTS HAVE MADE A HUGE BREAKTHROUGH IN CRYOGENICS” by June Javelosa
  • https://futurism.com/neoscope/4-scientists-have-found-a-way-to-rapidly-thaw-cryopreserved-tissue-without-damage

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Today you’ll learn about a potential new treatment for those suffering from brain fog after Covid, how freemium models of mental health apps might cause you to be more stressed out, and how developments in creating a vaccine for fungal infections might make them a thing of the past! 

Covid Brain Fog

• “Potential New Treatment for “Brain Fog” in Long COVID Patients” by Isabella Backman
  • https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/potential-new-treatment-for-brain-fog-in-long-covid-patients/
• “Clinical experience with the α2A-adrenoceptor agonist, guanfacine, and N-acetylcysteine for the treatment of cognitive deficits in “Long-COVID19”” by Arman Fesharaki-Zadeh et al.
  • https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667257X22001000

Freemium Failure 

• “"Money Doesn't Buy You Happiness": Negative Consequences of Using the Freemium Model for Mental Health Apps” by Tessa Eagle et al.
  • https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3555155
• “What Is Fleeceware & How to Prevent Fleeceware Scams in 2022” by Ben Martens
  • https://www.safetydetectives.com/blog/what-is-fleeceware/#:~:text=Because%20fleeceware%20isn't%20technically,(often%20under%20a%20week).
• “Should you agree to Apple’s terms and conditions?” by Karen Haslam
  • you-agree-to-apples-terms-and-conditions.html">https://www.macworld.com/article/672571/should-you-agree-to-apples-terms-and-conditions.html

Fungal Vaccine 

• “New vaccine targets life-threatening fungal infections” by Leigh Beeson
  • https://news.uga.edu/new-vaccine-targets-fungal-infections/?utm_medium=social&utm_content=text_link&utm_source=reddit&utm_campaign=news_release
• “Immunogenicity and protective efficacy of a pan-fungal vaccine in preclinical models of aspergillosis, candidiasis, and pneumocystosis” by Emily Rayens et al.
  • https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/1/5/pgac248/6798391?login=false
• “Fungal infections cost U.S. $6.7B in a year” by Leigh Beeson
  • https://news.uga.edu/fungal-infections-cost-us-6b-a-year/

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Today we have an extra special episode where we talk to Dan Schachner about this year’s Puppy Bowl, then we’ll learn about the truths and myths of spontaneous human combustion, and how cancer rates in the US have gone down by 33% since the ‘90s! 

The Puppy Bowl

Human Candles 

• “Strange reports have claimed humans spontaneously burst into flames, but science can explain how bodies sometimes act like a candle wick” by Paola Rosa-Aquino
  • https://www.businessinsider.com/is-spontaneous-human-combustion-real-or-myth-scientific-evidence
• “Man died from spontaneous human combustion, inquest finds” by Brian McDonald
  • died-from-spontaneous-human-combustion-inquest-finds-26774631.html">https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/man-died-from-spontaneous-human-combustion-inquest-finds-26774631.html
• “Spontaneous Human Combustion in the Light of the 21st Century” by Virve Koljonen, MD, PhD and Nicolas Kluger, MD (PAYWALL)
  • https://academic.oup.com/jbcr/article-abstract/33/3/e102/4588696?login=false

Cancer Rate Down   

• “US cancer death rate drops by 30% since 1991” by BBC
  • https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64255719
• “US cancer death rate falls 33% since 1991, partly due to advances in treatment, early detection and less smoking, report says” By Jacqueline Howard
  • https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/12/health/us-cancer-deaths-decline-wellness/index.html
• “U.S. Cancer Death Rate Has Fallen 33% Since 1991, Here’s Why” by John Loeppky
  • https://www.healthline.com/health-news/u-s-cancer-death-rate-has-fallen-33-since-1991-heres-why
• “US cancer deaths drop 33% since 1991, new report says” by J Oliver Conroy
  • https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/14/us-cancer-deaths-drop-third-since-1991-new-report-says
• “Cancer statistics, 2023” by Rebecca L. Siegel MPH et al.
  • https://acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.3322/caac.21763

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Today we discuss recent updates to powering the world through nuclear fusion, why ankle sprains are so common, and how we perceive musicians to be more attractive than those who don’t play an instrument.

Net Energy Gain 

• “US scientists reach long-awaited nuclear fusion breakthrough, source says” By Ella Nilsen and René Marsh
  • https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/12/politics/nuclear-fusion-energy-us-scientists-climate/index.html
• “U.S. to reveal scientific milestone on fusion energy” By Timothy Gardner
  • https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-announce-scientific-breakthrough-fusion-energy-sources-2022-12-12/#:~:text=WASHINGTON%2C%20Dec%2012%20(Reuters),knowledge%20of%20the%20matter%20said.
• “WHEN WILL FOSSIL FUELS RUN OUT?” by MET
  • https://group.met.com/en/mind-the-fyouture/mindthefyouture/when-will-fossil-fuels-run-out#:~:text=Conclusion%3A%20how%20long%20will%20fossil,our%20reserves%20can%20speed%20up.

Weak Ankles 

• “The Science Behind Why You Sprain Your Ankle So Often, And What You Can Do About It” by Gordon Waddington
  • https://www.sciencealert.com/the-science-behind-why-you-sprain-your-ankle-so-often-and-what-you-can-do-about-it
• “Lateral Ankle Sprain and Subsequent Ankle Sprain Risk: A Systematic Review” by Erik A. Wikstrom et al.
  • https://meridian.allenpress.com/jat/article/56/6/578/466668/Lateral-Ankle-Sprain-and-Subsequent-Ankle-Sprain
• “INJURY RISK IS ALTERED BY PREVIOUS INJURY: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE AND PRESENTATION OF CAUSATIVE NEUROMUSCULAR FACTORS” by Jessica Fulton et al.
  • https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4196323/
• “Epidemiology of Ankle Sprains and Chronic Ankle Instability” by Mackenzie M. Herzog, PhD, MP et al.
  • https://meridian.allenpress.com/jat/article/54/6/603/420863/Epidemiology-of-Ankle-Sprains-and-Chronic-Ankle

Hot Musicians 

• “Musicians are more desirable dates to both men and women, supporting Darwin’s sexual selection hypothesis” by Vladimir Hedrih
  • https://www.psypost.org/2023/01/musicians-are-more-desirable-dates-to-both-men-and-women-supporting-darwins-sexual-selection-hypothesis-64835
• “Darwin’s sexual selection hypothesis revisited: Musicality increases sexual attraction in both sexes” by Manuela M. Marin and Ines Rathgeber
  • https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.971988/full

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Today you’ll learn about the recent eruption of the world’s biggest active volcano, how researchers have created wifi-emitting windows, and how we might be able to use evaporating ocean water as a new freshwater source. 

Mauna Loa Eruption 

• “Hawaii’s Mauna Loa volcano is erupting. Here’s what you need to know” by Carolyn Gramling
  • https://www.sciencenews.org/article/hawaii-mauna-loa-volcano-erupting-what-you-need-to-know
• “Mauna Loa Eruption Webpage” By Mauna Loa
  • https://www.usgs.gov/volcanoes/mauna-loa/mauna-loa-eruption-webpage
• “Historic Keeling Curve Observation Interrupted by Volcanic Eruption” by Rob Monroe
  • https://keelingcurve.ucsd.edu/2022/11/29/historic-keeling-curve-observation-interrupted-by-volcanic-eruption/
• “Hawaii’s Mauna Loa volcano is erupting for the first time since 1984” By James Dinneen and Madeleine Cuff
  • https://www.newscientist.com/article/2348871-hawaiis-mauna-loa-volcano-is-erupting-for-the-first-time-since-1984/
• “HAWAIIAN VOLCANO OBSERVATORY DAILY UPDATE” by U.S. Geological Survey
  • https://www.usgs.gov/volcanoes/mauna-loa/volcano-updates#:~:text=Mauna%20Loa%20is%20no%20longer%20erupting.

Wifi Windows 

• “Your windows may soon produce wireless Internet connections powered by sunlight” by Camille Bello
  • https://www.euronews.com/next/2022/12/07/your-windows-may-soon-produce-wireless-internet-connections-powered-by-sunlight
• "Smart" Electricity Generating Windows Are On Their Way” by Cecille de Jesus
  • https://futurism.com/smart-electricity-generating-windows-are-on-their-way
• “Electricity-Generating Windows Of Future? Scientists Design Low-Cost Transparent Solar Cells” by Anjali Thakur
  • https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/electricity-generating-windows-of-future-scientists-design-low-cost-transparent-solar-cells-3497478
• “This company wants to turn your windows into solar panels” By Rishi Iyengar
  • https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/30/tech/solar-windows-ubiquitous-energy-california/index.html

Catching Vapor 

• “Researchers propose new structures to harvest untapped source of freshwater” by Peter Barnes
  • https://www.shutterbulky.com/harvesting-untapped-source-of-freshwater/
• “Increasing freshwater supply to sustainably address global water security at scale” by Afeefa Rahman, Praveen Kumar & Francina Dominguez
  • https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-24314-2
• “Water Vapor and Climate Change” by ACS
  • water-vapor-not-the-co2.html">https://www.acs.org/climatescience/climatesciencenarratives/its-water-vapor-not-the-co2.html

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Today we discuss how new technology is making faster and more efficient rockets, a new bandage that might be able to heal wounds faster than the body, and how we’ve seen some new connections between the brain and the gut through a study of Irritable Bowel Syndrome. 

Helicon Thruster 

• “Can plasma instability in fact be the savior for magnetic nozzle plasma thrusters” by Staff Writers
  • https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Can_plasma_instability_in_fact_be_the_savior_for_magnetic_nozzle_plasma_thrusters_999.html
• “Wave-driven electron inward transport in a magnetic nozzle” by Kazunori Takahashi, Christine Charles & Rod W. Boswell
  • https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-24202-9
• “PLASMA PROPULSION DISCOVERY COULD HERALD A ‘NEW ERA OF SPACE EXPLORATION’” by MICAH HANKS
  • https://thedebrief.org/plasma-propulsion-discovery-could-herald-a-new-era-of-space-exploration/
• “How Plasma Rockets Work” By Meisa Salaita
  • rockets.htm#:~:text=Plasma%20rockets%20accelerate%20gradually%20and,rocket%20%5Bsource%3A%20Verhovek%5D">https://science.howstuffworks.com/plasma-rockets.htm#:~:text=Plasma%20rockets%20accelerate%20gradually%20and,rocket%20%5Bsource%3A%20Verhovek%5D.
• “New Plasma Thruster Concept Could Make Space Missions 10x Faster” by Rupendra Brahambhatt
  • https://interestingengineering.com/transportation/physicist-designed-a-plasma-thruster-that-could-make-space-travel-10-times-faster

Smart Bandage 

• “Wireless smart bandage provides new insights on healing chronic wounds” by Andrew Myers
  • https://cheme.stanford.edu/wireless-smart-bandage-provides-new-insights-healing-chronic-wounds
• “Wireless, closed-loop, smart bandage with integrated sensors and stimulators for advanced wound care and accelerated healing” by Yuanwen Jiang et al.
  • https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-022-01528-3

Stress IBS

• “Repeated Psychological Stress is Linked with Irritable Bowel Syndrome-like Symptoms” by Tokyo University of Science
  • https://www.tus.ac.jp/en/mediarelations/archive/20221107_8752.html
• “Repeated psychological stress, chronic vicarious social defeat stress, evokes irritable bowel syndrome-like symptoms in mice” by Toshinori Yoshioka et al.
  • https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnins.2022.993132/full

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Today you’ll learn about how grapes have the potential to reduce the risk of skin cancer, how dogs’ behaviors are hardwired into their genes, and how underwater seaweed forests might be able to combat climate change. 

Cancer-Fighting Grapes 

• “Short-Term Grape Consumption Diminishes UV-Induced Skin Erythema” by John M. Pezzuto
  • https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3921/11/12/2372#B4-antioxidants-11-02372
• “The potential of grape consumption to modulate UV-induced skin erythema” by Dr. Priyom Bose
  • medical.net/news/20221202/The-potential-of-grape-consumption-to-modulate-UV-induced-skin-erythema.aspx">https://www.news-medical.net/news/20221202/The-potential-of-grape-consumption-to-modulate-UV-induced-skin-erythema.aspx
• “How Many Grapes In A Bottle Of Wine” BY ANTHONY ZHANG
  • https://www.vinovest.co/blog/how-many-grapes-in-a-bottle-of-wine

Dog Brain 

• “Dog behavior is a product of their genes: Dog Genome Project Revealed.” by Peter Barnes
  • https://www.shutterbulky.com/dog-behavior/
• “Domestic dog lineages reveal genetic drivers of behavioral diversification” by Emily V. Dutrow et al.
  • https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(22)01379-4?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0092867422013794%3Fshowall%3Dtrue

Sea Forests 

• “The hidden underwater forests that could help tackle the climate crisis” by Lucy Sherriff
  • https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/02/kelp-seaweed-forests-research-climate-crisis
• “Global seaweed productivity” by ALBERT PESSARRODONA et al.
  • https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abn2465

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Today we discuss how the rinse cycle in some commercial dishwashers might be negatively affecting your gut, how a groundbreaking new study might have found a solution to PTSD, and how video games have been proven to improve our executive functioning skills. 

Dangerous Dishwashers 

• “Commercial dishwashers destroy protective layer in gut” by University of Zurich
  • https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/973024
• “Industrial dishwashers may harm your gut’s protective inner lining” by Tibi Puiu
  • https://www.zmescience.com/medicine/industrial-dishwashers-may-harm-your-guts-protective-inner-lining/

PTSD Prevention

• “Taking hydrocortisone immediately after a traumatic event may help prevent PTSD” by Vladimir Hedrih
  • https://www.psypost.org/2022/11/taking-hydrocortisone-immediately-after-a-traumatic-event-may-help-prevent-ptsd-64410
• “Accelerated forgetting of a trauma-like event in healthy men and women after a single dose of hydrocortisone” by Vanessa E. Hennessy, Luzia Troebinger, Georges Iskandar, Ravi K. Das & Sunjeev K. Kamboj
  • https://www.nature.com/articles/s41398-022-02126-2

Game Brain  

• “For young adults, more time gaming may mean better executive functioning” by Laura Staloch
  • https://www.psypost.org/2023/01/for-young-adults-more-time-gaming-may-mean-better-executive-functioning-64641
• “Videogaming Frequency and Executive Skills in Young Adults” by Sara Peracchia, Giulia D’Aurizio, and Giuseppe Curcio
  • https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/19/19/12081
• “Young Adults Who Frequently Play Video Games Have Improved Executive Functioning Compared to Casual Gamers, Research Suggests” by Margaret Davis
  • adults-who-frequently-play-video-games-improved-executive-functioning.htm">https://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/41718/20230105/young-adults-who-frequently-play-video-games-improved-executive-functioning.htm

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Today we explore how a recent meteorite that landed in the UK is giving us clues to the mysteries of the universe, the positive and negative side-effects found in a recent study on ayahuasca, and how some toxic “forever chemicals” were found to be completely eradicated with new technology.

Winchcombe Meteorite 

• “Pristine meteorite found within hours of hitting Earth” by Eleanor K. Sansom
  • https://astronomy.com/news/2022/11/pristine-meteorite-found-within-hours-of-hitting-earth
• “The Winchcombe meteorite, a unique and pristine witness from the outer solar system” by ASHLEY J. KING et al.
  • https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abq3925

Aya-What Now?  

• “How Safe Is Ayahuasca? Large-Scale Study Explores” by Molly Campbell
  • https://www.technologynetworks.com/biopharma/news/how-safe-is-ayahuasca-large-scale-study-explores-367665
• “Adverse effects of ayahuasca: Results from the Global Ayahuasca Survey” by José Carlos Bouso et al.
  • https://journals.plos.org/globalpublichealth/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgph.0000438
• “What Is Ayahuasca? Experience, Benefits, and Side Effects” by Healthline
  • https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/ayahuasca

Toxic Cleanup  

• “Pollution cleanup method destroys toxic “forever chemicals”” by David Danelski
  • https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2022/12/12/pollution-cleanup-method-destroys-toxic-forever-chemicals
• “Hydrogen-polarized vacuum ultraviolet photolysis system for enhanced destruction of perfluoroalkyl substances” by Gongde Chen et al.
  • https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666911022000259
• “For Decades, Polluters Knew PFAS Chemicals Were Dangerous But Hid Risks From Public” by Jared Hayes and Scott Faber
  • https://www.ewg.org/news-insights/news/decades-polluters-knew-pfas-chemicals-were-dangerous-hid-risks-public

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Today you’ll learn about what it means for the planet now that we’ve reached a global population of 8 billion people, how leprosy might be able to repair damaged livers, and some information about an asteroid that’s been dubbed a, “Planet-killer.”

World Population Reaches 8 Billion 

• “The world population has now reached 8 billion” by Allison Gasparini
  • https://www.sciencenews.org/article/world-population-8-billion-humans-earth
• “Day of 8 Billion” by United Nations
  • https://www.un.org/en/dayof8billion
• “World population hits 8 billion: What does it mean for the planet?” by CGTN
  • https://newseu.cgtn.com/news/2022-11-19/World-population-hits-8-billion-What-does-it-mean-for-the-planet--1f47kiG46qs/index.html#:~:text=On%20November%2015%202022%2C%20the,billion%20people%20in%20around%202080.
• “The World Population Just Hit 8 Billion and Here’s How It Will Continue to Grow” by David Adam
  • https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-world-population-just-hit-8-billion-and-heres-how-it-will-continue-to-grow/

Leprosy 

• “Leprosy: Ancient disease able to regenerate organs” By James Gallagher
  • 63626239.amp">https://www.bbc.com/news/health-63626239.amp
• “In vivo partial reprogramming by bacteria promotes adult liver organ growth without fibrosis and tumorigenesis” by Samuel Hess et al.
  • https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-medicine/fulltext/S2666-3791(22)00379-2?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS2666379122003792%3Fshowall%3Dtrue
• “Leprosy bacteria use 'biological alchemy'” by James Gallagher
  • https://www.bbc.com/news/health-21056644

Planet-Killer 

• “Largest potentially hazardous asteroid detected in 8 years” by National Science Foundation
  • https://beta.nsf.gov/news/largest-potentially-hazardous-asteroid-detected-8
• “A Deep and Wide Twilight Survey for Asteroids Interior to Earth and Venus” by Scott S. Sheppard et al.
  • https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac8cff

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Today we discuss how a new piece of technology is able to transfer the data of the entire internet in just one second, how eating a lot of tomatoes can improve your gut health, and how scientists are looking into how medicine is processed in the body at different times of day. 

Internet Chip

• “Record-breaking chip can transmit entire internet's traffic per second” By Michael Irving
  • https://newatlas.com/telecommunications/optical-chip-fastest-data-transmission-record-entire-internet-traffic/
• “Petabit-per-second data transmission using a chip-scale microcomb ring resonator source” by A. A. Jørgensen et al.
  • https://www.nature.com/articles/s41566-022-01082-z
• “A New Chip Is Capable of Transmitting All of the Internet's Traffic Every Second” by Anthony Wood
  • https://www.ign.com/articles/world-record-data-transfer-internet-chip

Tomato Diet 

• “Tracing tomatoes’ health benefits to gut microbes” by Emily Caldwell
  • https://news.osu.edu/tracing-tomatoes-health-benefits-to-gut-microbes/
• “Short-Term Tomato Consumption Alters the Pig Gut Microbiome toward a More Favorable Profile” by Mallory L. Goggans et al.
  • https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/spectrum.02506-22

Wrong Time Meds 

• “New insights into the harms of taking medicines at the wrong time of day” By Rich Haridy
  • https://newatlas.com/science/circadian-sedative-heart-damage-drug-time-day-dose/
• “Timing matters for medications – your circadian rhythm influences how well treatments work and how much they might harm you” by Tobias Eckle
  • https://theconversation.com/timing-matters-for-medications-your-circadian-rhythm-influences-how-well-treatments-work-and-how-much-they-might-harm-you-194906
• “How circadian disruptions promote tumor growth and timing of cancer drugs may be vital” By Rich Haridy
  • https://newatlas.com/circadian-cancer-tumor-night-shift-chronotherapy/59498/?itm_source=newatlas&itm_medium=article-body
• “Anti-inflammatory drugs slow healing, if taken at wrong time of day” By Rich Haridy
  • https://newatlas.com/medical/anti-inflammatory-drugs-impair-bone-healing-circadian-clock/?itm_source=newatlas&itm_medium=article-body
• “Time-of-day dependent effects of midazolam administration on myocardial injury in non-cardiac surgery” by Meghan Prin et al.
  • https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcvm.2022.982209/full

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Today we discuss the psychological effects of listening to podcasts, how climate change actually makes us more likely to engage in hate speech, and how giving plants alcohol in the form of ethanol can make them resistant to drought. 

Podcast Friends 

• “Listening to podcasts may help satisfy our psychological need for social connection, study finds” by Beth Ellwood
  • https://www.psypost.org/2022/11/listening-to-podcasts-may-help-satisfy-our-psychological-need-for-social-connection-study-finds-64395
• “Why people listen: Motivations and outcomes of podcast listening” by Stephanie J. Tobin
  • https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0265806

Drunk Plants 

• “Getting Plants ‘Drunk’ Insulates them Against Drought, According to New Research” by Andy Corbley
  • https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/getting-plants-drunk-insulates-them-against-drought-according-to-new-research/
• “Pretreating soil with ethanol protects plants from drought, study finds” by Khurram Bashir
  • https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/08/220824225727.htm

Hot Temper

• “AI-Based Research Reveals That Extreme Temperatures Fuel Online Hate Speech” by Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
  • https://neurosciencenews.com/extreme-weather-hate-speech-21374/
• “Online Hate Speech Increases During Extreme Hot and Cold Weather, Study Shows” by Jeffrey Kluger
  • https://time.com/6211832/extreme-weather-twitter-hate-speech/

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Today you’ll learn about how some researchers have activated a specific gene in the body that can make your muscles stronger without exercise, how a parasite that can still be found today was discovered in ancient viking poop, and how parrots understand timing when it comes to communication. 

Strong Muscle Gene

• “Researchers Discover a Gene That Makes Your Muscles Significantly Stronger” by The University of Melbourne
  • https://scitechdaily.com/researchers-discover-a-gene-that-makes-your-muscles-significantly-stronger/

The Secrets of Viking Poop

• “Viking Poop Helps Scientists Reconstruct Genome of Ancient Human Parasite” by Michelle Starr
  • https://www.sciencealert.com/viking-poop-helps-scientists-reconstruct-genome-of-ancient-human-parasite
• “DNA in Viking poop sheds new light on 55,000-year-old relationship between gut companions” by University of Copenhagen
  • https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/963666
• “Dietary Inulin and Trichuris suis Infection Promote Beneficial Bacteria Throughout the Porcine Gut” by Sophie Stolzenbach, Laura J. Myhill, Lee O’Brien Andersen, Lukasz Krych, Helena Mejer, Andrew R. Williams, Peter Nejsum, C. Rune Stensvold, Dennis S. Nielsen and Stig M. Thamsborg
  • https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2020.00312/full

Parrot Chat  

• “900 PET PARROTS REVEAL RANGE OF VOCAL MIMICRY” BY U. PITTSBURGH
  • https://www.futurity.org/parrots-vocal-mimicry-2839832-2/
• “A survey of vocal mimicry in companion parrots” by Lauryn Benedict et al.
  • https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-24335-x’

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Today you’ll learn about how researchers have been able to grow embryos that have three genetic parents, how European moles can shrink down to a tenth of their size during winter, and whether or not being kind to narcissists makes any difference in their behavior. 

3-Parent Babies 

• “Study reveals how babies born from 3 parents are surprisingly similar to normal babies” by Rupendra Brahambhatt
  • https://interestingengineering.com/science/spindle-transfer-embryo-development
• “Single-cell multiomics analyses of spindle-transferred human embryos suggest a mostly normal embryonic development” by Shuyue Qi
  • https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3001741

Shrinking Moles 

“European moles can shrink by a tenth in winter to save energy” By James Ashworth

• moles-can-shrink-by-tenth-winter-save-energy.html">https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2022/september/european-moles-can-shrink-by-tenth-winter-save-energy.html

“Winter conditions, not resource availability alone, may drive reversible seasonal skull size changes in moles” by Lucie Nováková, Javier Lázaro, Marion Muturi, Christian Dullin and Dina K. N. Dechmann

• https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.220652

Being Kind to Narcissists 

• “New study investigates the role compassion may play in reducing certain narcissistic traits” by Laura Staloch
  • https://www.psypost.org/2022/12/new-study-investigates-the-role-compassion-may-play-in-reducing-certain-narcissistic-traits-64480
• “Narcissistic traits and compassion: Embracing oneself while devoiding others” by Vanessa Lea Freund et al.
  • https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.914270/full

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Today we explore how scientists are trying to find a way to make an “aging clock” that can determine your age and health by looking at your DNA, how looking at our gut could help us treat mental health disorders, and how there may be a new treatment option in the form of a vaccine for people suffering from brain tumors!  

Aging Clock  

• “Aging clocks aim to predict how long you’ll live” by INfotech Group
  • https://infotechgroup.co.uk/blog/aging-clocks-aim-to-predict-how-long-youll-live/
• “Want to know when you’re going to die?” By Karen Weintraub
  • https://www.technologyreview.com/2018/10/19/139463/want-to-know-when-youre-going-to-die/

Mental Health in Your Gut 

• “Gut Microbes May Lead to Therapies for Mental Illness” By UT Southwestern
  • https://neurosciencenews.com/gut-microbes-mental-health-21385/
• “Is there a link between gut health and anxiety?” by Rosie Slater
  • https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/gut-health-and-anxiety#link

Brain Tumor Vaccine  

• “Vaccine doubles brain tumour survival rate in medical breakthrough” by Sarah Knapton (PAYWALL)
  • https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/11/17/vaccine-doubles-brain-tumour-survival-rate-medical-breakthrough/
• “Vaccine shown to prolong life of patients with aggressive brain cancer” by Denis Campbell
  • https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/nov/17/vaccine-shown-to-prolong-life-patients-aggressive-brain-cancer-trial-glioblastoma
• “Association of Autologous Tumor Lysate-Loaded Dendritic Cell Vaccination With Extension of Survival Among Patients With Newly Diagnosed and Recurrent Glioblastoma” by Linda M. Liau et al.
  • https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaoncology/fullarticle/2798847
• “About Glioblastoma” by National Brain Tumor Society
  • https://braintumor.org/events/glioblastoma-awareness-day/about-glioblastoma/#:~:text=Glioblastoma%20Facts%20%26%20Figures&text=More%20than%2013%2C000%20Americans%20are,succumb%20to%20glioblastoma%20every%20year.

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Today you’ll learn about the development of a potential new Covid vaccine in the form of a nasal spray, how your circadian rhythm affects how intensely you feel pain, and how the old saying that you need 8 glasses of water a day could be a myth. 

Pain Worse at Night 

• “Why pain feels worse at night” by Allison Whitten
  • https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/09/why-pain-feels-worse-at-night/
• “Circadian rhythmicity of pain sensitivity in humans” by Inès Daguet, Véronique Raverot, Didier Bouhassira, and Claude Gronfier
  • https://academic.oup.com/brain/article/145/9/3225/6637506?guestAccessKey=e94c8f79-7fca-42ca-98e2-085eb26400c3&login=false

Who Needs Water?  

• “Stop counting cups. There’s an ocean of difference in our water needs” by UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON
  • https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/972344
• “Variation in human water turnover associated with environmental and lifestyle factors” by YOSUKE YAMADA et al.
  • https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abm8668

Covid Nasal Spray  

• “How nasal-spray vaccines could change the pandemic” by Emily Waltz
  • https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02824-3
• “Investigational Mucosal COVID Vaccine Protects Against Disease and Transmission” by Sarah Avery
  • https://corporate.dukehealth.org/news/investigational-mucosal-covid-vaccine-protects-against-disease-and-transmission

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Today we discuss the science of delusion, how changes in the length of our days can cause changes in our behavior, and a potential new life saving drug to fight the current opioid crisis. 

Delusion Science 

• “What is walking corpse syndrome?” by Victoria Shepherd
  • https://www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-body/walking-corpse-syndrome/
• “Glass Bones and Walking Corpses: 9 Delusions from History” by Amy Irvine
• https://www.historyhit.com/common-delusions-in-history/

S.A.D. About Day Length 

• “How changes in length of day change the brain and subsequent behavior” by Scott LaFee
  • https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/09/220907093419.htm
• “Seasonal changes in day length induce multisynaptic neurotransmitter switching to regulate hypothalamic network activity and behavior” by Alessandra Porcu
• https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abn9867

Fentanyl Vaccine 

• “An Immunconjugate Vaccine Alters Distribution and Reduces the Antinociceptive, Behavioral and Physiological Effects of Fentanyl in Male and Female Rats” by Colin N. Haile
  • https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4923/14/11/2290
• “New Fentanyl Vaccine Eliminates The Drug's High, Rat Study Finds” by Felicity Nelson
  • https://www.sciencealert.com/new-fentanyl-vaccine-eliminates-the-drugs-high-rat-study-finds
• “Fentanyl Vaccine Breakthrough – Potential “Game Changer” for Opioid Epidemic” by University of Houston
  • https://scitechdaily.com/fentanyl-vaccine-breakthrough-potential-game-changer-for-opioid-epidemic/
• “Fentanyl Vaccine Potential ‘Game Changer’ for Opioid Epidemic” by Laurie Fickman
  • fentanyl-vaccine-haile-kosten.php">https://uh.edu/news-events/stories/2022-news-articles/november-2022/11142022-fentanyl-vaccine-haile-kosten.php

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Today we discuss how nicknames for young boys can help them socialize better, how archaeologists in Poland have unearthed the grave of a woman people feared might return from the dead, and a new study that disproves Freud’s theory that more successful people are unhealthier than less successful people. 

Boyhood Nickname 

• “Why You Should Ask Men About Their Boyhood Nicknames” By Jett Stone
  • https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-souls-men/202209/why-you-should-ask-men-about-their-boyhood-nicknames
• “Why Men Need to Prioritize, and Celebrate, Their Friendships” by Jett Stone
• https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-souls-men/202202/why-men-need-prioritize-and-celebrate-their-friendships

Vampire Grave 

• “Archaeologists unearth remains of 17th-century female “vampire” in Poland” by Jennifer Oullette
  • https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/09/archaeologists-unearth-remains-of-17th-century-female-vampire-in-poland/
• “Ancient human bloodsucker? Skeleton of female 'vampire' unearthed in Europe during dig” by Natalie Neysa Alund
• https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2022/09/08/skeleton-female-vampire-unearthed-poland-dig/8020403001/

Wrecked by Success 

• “New psychology research rebuts Sigmund Freud’s “wrecked by success” hypothesis” by Vladimir Hedrih
  • https://www.psypost.org/2022/11/new-psychology-research-rebuts-sigmund-freuds-wrecked-by-success-hypothesis-64322
• “Wrecked by Success? Not to Worry” by Harrison J. Kell et al.
  • PPS-Kell-et-al-2022.pdf">https://my.vanderbilt.edu/smpy/files/2013/02/Article-PPS-Kell-et-al-2022.pdf

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Today you’ll learn about why some people are more popular with mosquitoes than others, what tickling rats tells us about being human, and how a recent discovery of ancient statues re-writes what we believed about historical Tuscany. 

Mosquito Magnets 

• “Why Are Some People Mosquito Magnets and Others Unbothered? A Medical Entomologist Points to Metabolism, Body Odor and Mindset” by Jonathan Day
  • https://theconversation.com/why-are-some-people-mosquito-magnets-and-others-unbothered-a-medical-entomologist-points-to-metabolism-body-odor-and-mindset-187957
• “Blood-feeding ecology of mosquitoes in two zoological gardens in the United Kingdom” by Arturo Hernandez-Colina, Merit Gonzalez-Olvera, Emily Lomax, Freya Townsend, Amber Maddox, Jenny C. Hesson, Kenneth Sherlock, Dawn Ward, Lindsay Eckley, Mark Vercoe, Javier Lopez & Matthew Baylis
  • https://parasitesandvectors.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13071-021-04735-0
• “Comparison of people who request mosquito control services and their non-requesting neighbors” by C D Morris & K B Clanton
  • https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1583492/

Laughing Rats 

• “What Tickling Rats Tells Us About Human Development” by Adam Omary
  • https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/natured-nurture/202209/what-tickling-rats-tells-us-about-human-development
• ““Laughing” rats and the evolutionary antecedents of human joy?” by Jaak Panksepp and Jeff Burgdorf
  • https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0031938403001598?via%3Dihub

Roman Relics 

• “Ancient Rome: Stunningly preserved bronze statues found in Italy” by BBC
  • https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63564404
• “Italy hails 'exceptional' discovery of ancient bronze statues in Tuscany” by Reuters
  • https://www.cnn.com/style/article/italy-bronze-statues-tuscany/index.html
• “The Etruscans, an introduction” by Khan Academy
  • https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ap-art-history/ancient-mediterranean-ap/ap-ancient-etruria/a/the-etruscans-an-introduction
• “Ancient bronze statues found in prime condition will 'rewrite history,' Italian researchers say” by Camille Fine
  • https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2022/11/08/bronze-statues-italian-springs-roman-etruscan/8302449001/
• “A Trove of ‘Exceptional’ stunningly preserved bronze statues found at an Ancient Thermal Spa in Tuscany, Italy” by Arkeo News
  • https://arkeonews.net/a-trove-of-exceptional-stunningly-preserved-bronze-statues-found-at-an-ancient-thermal-spa-in-tuscany-italy/

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Today we discuss how watching cleaning or decluttering videos affects our mental state, the abilities of super-recognizers, and a recent discovery into how manipulating the neurons in paralysis patients might be able to improve their mobility.

Decluttering the Mind 

• “Why Watching Decluttering Videos Feels So Good” by Abby Alten Schwartz
  • https://www.wired.com/story/why-watching-decluttering-videos-feels-so-good/
• “How to Stop Doomscrolling—With Psychology” by Kenneth R. Rosen
  • https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-stop-doomscrolling-psychology-social-media-fomo/

Never Forget Faces

• “I Never Forget a Face: The Science of Super-Recognizers' Amazing Feat of Recognition” by Leah Thayer
  • https://neurosciencenews.com/super-recognizers-visual-learning-21379/
• ‘They never forget a face. Research delves into how ‘super-recognizers’ can do this.” By Marlene Cimons
  • https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/super-recognizer-facial-memory/2021/10/29/4cf80caa-2159-11ec-b3d6-8cdebe60d3e2_story.html

Paralysis Neurons

• “Nine Paralysis Patients Walk Again Thanks to Newly Identified Neurons” by Ruairi J Mackenzie
  • https://www.technologynetworks.com/neuroscience/news/nine-paralysis-patients-walk-again-thanks-to-newly-identified-neurons-367467
• “The neurons that restore walking after paralysis” by Claudia Kathe et al.
  • https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05385-7

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Today, you’ll learn about how COVID-19 may have revamped cities for the better, astounding new technology that could one day regrow human limbs and how an agricultural fertilizer is going from feeding the world to potentially powering the world.

Covid’s Bright Side 

• The Pandemic Might Have Redesigned Cities Forever by Adam Rogers
  • https://www.wired.com/story/the-pandemic-might-have-redesigned-cities-forever/
• Pandemic-led decline of US cities may be reversing by Howard Schneider
  • https://www.reuters.com/world/the-great-reboot/pandemic-led-decline-us-cities-may-be-reversing-2021-05-04/
• Car-Free Transportation Gets Boost from U.S. Grant Program by Laura Bliss
  • https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-11-29/bike-pedestrian-infrastructure-favored-in-raise-grants
• Pandemic-era Street Spaces: Parklets, Patios, and the Future of the Public Realm by John Bela
  • https://dirt.asla.org/2021/09/09/pandemic-era-street-spaces-parklets-patios-and-the-future-of-the-public-realm/
• The Status of Outdoor Dining Across the Country by Amy McCarthy
  • https://www.eater.com/22833407/pandemic-outdoor-dining-america-impact-neighborhoods

Frogs Out On a Limb

• A new device helps frogs regrow working legs after an amputation by Carolyn Wilke
  • https://www.sciencenews.org/article/frog-leg-regeneration-new-device-regrow-amputation
• Frogs regrow amputated legs in breakthrough experiment by Patrick Pester
  • https://www.livescience.com/frogs-regrow-amputated-legs-in-lab
• Could Humans Ever Regenerate a Limb? by Jesse Emspak
  • could-humans-ever-regenerate-limbs.html">https://www.livescience.com/59194-could-humans-ever-regenerate-limbs.html
• How do we use frogs in research? by The Francis Crick Institute
  • https://www.crick.ac.uk/news/2019-12-16_how-do-we-use-frogs-in-research
• Scientists regrow frog’s lost leg by Tufts University
  • https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/940952

Fertilizing Fuel

• Can ‘Green’ Ammonia Be a Climate Fix? by Nicola Jones
  • https://www.wired.com/story/can-green-ammonia-be-a-climate-fix/
• Green ammonia could produce climate-friendly ways to store energy and fertilize farms by Stephen Ornes
  • https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2119584118
• Ammonia: zero-carbon fertiliser, fuel and energy store by The Royal Society
  • https://royalsociety.org/topics-policy/projects/low-carbon-energy-programme/green-ammonia
• Satellite Data Detects Hundreds of New Sources of Ammonia Pollution by Jason Daley
  • https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/satellite-data-detects-hundreds-new-sources-ammonia-pollution-180970967/
• Watch this TED talk to get up to speed on green ammonia and shipping by Maria Gallucci
  • https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/sea-transport/watch-this-ted-talk-to-get-up-to-speed-on-green-ammonia-and-shipping

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Today, you’ll learn about the benefits of shading rooftop gardens with solar panels, caffeine’s dark secrets, and how the first image from the James Webb telescope promises a great run for Hubble’s successor.

Solar Salads 

• “Your Rooftop Garden Could Be a Solar-Powered Working Farm” by Matt Simon
  • https://www.wired.com/story/your-rooftop-garden-could-be-a-solar-powered-working-farm/
• “Exploring The Potential of Rooftop Agrivoltaics” by Jennifer Bousselot and Thomas Hickey, Jr.
  • https://livingarchitecturemonitor.com/articles/potential-rooftop-agrivoltaics-sp22
• “Volunteer State (Finally) Discovers Solar Power — With A Regenerative Twist” by Tina Casey
  • https://cleantechnica.com/2022/04/04/volunteer-state-finally-discovers-solar-power-with-a-regenerative-twist/

Cursed Caffeine

• “The invisible addiction: is it time to give up caffeine?” by Michael Pollan
  • https://www.theguardian.com/food/2021/jul/06/caffeine-coffee-tea-invisible-addiction-is-it-time-to-give-up
• “Caffeine: How much is too much?” by Mayo Clinic Staff
  • https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/nutrition-and-healthy-eating/in-depth/caffeine/art-20045678#:~:text=Caffeine
• “Caffeine - Uses, Side Effects, And More” from WebMD
  • https://www.webmd.com/vitamins/ai/ingredientmono-979/caffeine#:~:text=Caffeine
• “How and When Did Humans Start Consuming Alcohol?” by Sedeer el-Showk
  • https://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/accumulating-glitches/how_and_when_did_humans/#:~:text=According
• “Coffee and caffeine consumption and depression: A meta-analysis of observational studies” by Longfei Wang, Xiaoli Shen, Yili Wu, and Dongfeng Zhang
  • https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26339067/

Webb’s First Photo

• “1st image snapped by iconic Webb telescope pushes limits of the 'laws of physics'” by Tom Metcalfe
  • https://www.livescience.com/james-webb-telescope-image-limits-of-physics
• ““Better than our most optimistic prediction” – first images from James Webb exceed all expectations” by Jamie Priest
  • https://cosmosmagazine.com/space/james-webb-telescope-first-images/
• “About Webb Orbit” By NASA
  • https://webb.nasa.gov/content/about/orbit.html

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Today, you’ll learn about how researchers at MIT created an incredible new type of fabric that can save thousands of lives, how sleep scientists are explaining alien abductions, and how evolution is being sped up by human beings, causing ripple effects all over the place.

Fabric with Ears 

• This fabric can hear your heartbeat by Carolyn Wilke
  • https://www.sciencenews.org/article/fabric-hear-heartbeat-fiber-vibration-voltage-sound-material
• A fabric that “hears” your heart's sounds by Jennifer Chu
  • https://news.mit.edu/2022/fabric-acoustic-microphone-0316
• Researchers Create a Fabric That Can ‘Hear’ Your Heartbeat by Margaret Osborne
  • https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/researchers-create-a-fabric-that-can-hear-your-heartbeat-180979753/
• Hear and There: Sounds from Everywhere! by Daniel Henning, Edin Sabic, and Michael C. Hout
  • https://kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frym.2018.00063
• Heart Disease Facts by The CDC
  • https://www.cdc.gov/heartdisease/facts.htm
• Electrical and Electromagnetic Fundamentals by Joseph J. Carr
  • https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/static-electricity
• Smart Fibers Could Turn Army Uniforms Into Wearable Computers by Kyle Mizokami
  • https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/research/a36732071/army-uniform-fibers-create-wearable-computers/

Dreaming of E.T.

• 'Alien abduction' stories may come from lucid dreaming, study hints by Mindy Weisberger
  • dreaming-ufo-alien-abductions.html">https://www.livescience.com/lucid-dreaming-ufo-alien-abductions.html
• COULD SUSPECTED ALIEN ABDUCTIONS JUST BE … LUCID DREAMING? by Elizabeth Rayne
  • https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/could-suspected-alien-abductions-be-lucid-dreaming
• How Betty and Barney Hill's Alien Abduction Story Defined the Genre by Linda Lacina
  • https://www.history.com/news/first-alien-abduction-account-barney-betty-hill
• Is it normal to believe you have been abducted by aliens? by Dr. Ema Sullivan-Bissett
  • by-aliens.aspx">https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/perspective/abducted-by-aliens.aspx
• Sleep paralysis and folklore by Ann M. Cox
  • https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5167075/
• Sleep Paralysis in Brazilian Folklore and Other Cultures: A Brief Review by José F. R. de Sá and Sérgio A. Mota-Rolim
  • https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5013036/

Fast Evolution

• A New Database Reveals How Much Humans Are Messing With Evolution by Amit Katwala
  • https://www.wired.com/story/database-humans-messing-with-evolution/
• Uncovering the underlying patterns in contemporary evolution by McGill University Newsroom
  • https://www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/channels/news/uncovering-underlying-patterns-contemporary-evolution-336562
• Pollution Facts & Types of Pollution by Alina Bradford
  • pollution-facts.html">https://www.livescience.com/22728-pollution-facts.html

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Today, you’ll learn about a super exciting space program, blasting off in a few months, that will take us back to the moon for the first time in 50 years, how the simple snap of your fingers actually involves some cool physics and the chemistry behind the skunky stank of cannabis.

To the Moon Artemis

• Artemis-I
  • https://www.nasa.gov/artemisprogram
• Artemis
  • https://www.nasa.gov/specials/artemis/
• Artemis Program
  • https://www.nasa.gov/artemisprogram
• Around the Moon with NASA’s First Launch of SLS with Orion
  • https://www.nasa.gov/feature/around-the-moon-with-nasa-s-first-launch-of-sls-with-orion
• NASA Readies Rocket for Artemis I Wet Dress Rehearsal
  • https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-readies-rocket-for-artemis-i-wet-dress-rehearsal
• The Artemis Plan
  • 20200921.pdf">https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/artemis_plan-20200921.pdf
• Rocket Weight and Thrust
  • https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/sls_reference_guide_2022_web.pdf
• NASA's Artemis 1 moon rocket reaches the launch pad by Brendan Byrne
  • https://www.npr.org/2022/03/18/1087417075/nasas-artemis-1-moon-rocket-reaches-the-launch-pad
• NASA's Artemis program will land the first person of color on the moon by Ashley Strickland
  • https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/09/world/nasa-artemis-person-of-color-crew-scn/index.html
• NASA's Artemis 1 moon megarocket rolls out to the launch pad today and you can watch it live by Chelsea Gohd
  • https://www.space.com/artemis-1-moon-megarocket-rollout-webcast
• Why NASA’s new ‘Mega Moon Rocket’ is so incredible by Adam Mann
  • https://www.livescience.com/megamoon-rocket-is-incredible
• SpaceX Starship: Stunning Concept Art Reveals NASA’s New Lunar Lander by Mike Brown
  • https://www.inverse.com/innovation/spacex-starship-nasa-new-concept-art
• Inventions we use everyday that were actually created for space exploration by Josie Green
  • https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2019/07/08/space-race-inventions-we-use-every-day-were-created-for-space-exploration/39580591/
• How Heavy Is A School Bus? (Empty And Full) by Measuring Stuff
  • https://measuringstuff.com/how-heavy-is-a-school-bus-empty-and-full/#:~:text=On%20average%2C%20an%20empty%20school,the%20weight%20of%20the%20passengers.

Oh Snap! 

• New high-speed video reveals the physics of a finger snap by Emily Conover
  • https://www.sciencenews.org/article/finger-snap-physics-new-high-speed-video-thanos
• The Surprising Physics of Finger Snapping by Karen Hopkin
  • https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/the-surprising-physics-of-finger-snapping/
• The ultrafast snap of a finger is mediated by skin friction by Raghav Acharya, Elio J. Challita, Mark Ilton and M. Saad Bhamla
  • https://royalsocietypublishing.org/rsif/doi/10.1098/rsif.2021.0672
• How a Single Finger Snap Became a Scientific Game-Changer by Cayla Mihalovich
  • https://www.webmd.com/brain/news/20220224/finger-snap-a-scientific-achievement
• Snapping your fingers is a move worthy of a professional athlete by Elana Spivack
  • https://www.popsci.com/science/finger-snapping-physics/

The Funky Skunk of Cannabis

• Why does cannabis smell skunky? by John Arnst
  • https://www.livescience.com/why-cannabis-smells-like-skunk
• Great News, Scientists Finally Figured Out Why Cannabis Smells 'Skunky' by Carly Cassella
  • https://www.sciencealert.com/we-finally-know-why-cannabis-smells-skunk-y-and-the-answer-could-hold-health-benefits
• Here’s the chemistry behind marijuana’s skunky scent by Ariana Remmel
  • https://www.sciencenews.org/article/marijuana-skunk-smell-cannabis-pot-plant-chemistry

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Today, you’ll learn about how your brushing routine may not be the biggest factor in whether or not you get cavities, how a new method of building pharmaceutical production facilities may bring medical access to previously underserved regions, and how the discovery of a plastic-eating bacteria could revolutionize the recycling industry.

True Cavity Culprit 

• “Why People Who Brush Still Get Cavities” by Maggie Koerth
  • https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-people-who-brush-still-get-cavities/
• “How Can You Get Cavities If You Brush Your Teeth?” by davis & Beyer Dental Health Professionals
  • https://www.venicedentist.com/how-can-you-get-cavities-if-you-brush-your-teeth
• “History of Sugar” from Wikipedia
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_sugar

Modular Meds

• “BioNTech plans to make vaccines in shipping containers” by The Economist
  • https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/biontech-plans-to-make-vaccines-in-shipping-containers/21807708
• “BioNTech Covid vaccine plan to ship container labs to Africa” By Jenny Hill
  • https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60400114

Enzymes vs Plastic

• “The Future of Recycling May Be in Microbes” by Ula Chrobak
  • https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/future-recycling-may-be-microbes-180979645/
• “Scientists uncover the secrets of a plastic-destroying enzyme” by Abe Musselman
  • https://www.inverse.com/innovation/enzyme-helps-bacteria-eat-plastic
• “Plastic-eating bacteria: Genetic engineering and environmental impact” by Scott Dutfield
  • https://www.livescience.com/plastic-eating-bacteria
• "Endlessly recyclable materials could fix our plastic waste crisis" by Katharine Sanderson
  • https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25333763-000-endlessly-recyclable-materials-could-fix-our-plastic-waste-crisis/

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Today, you’ll learn about an interesting way pills made from poop could help millions of people with allergies, how researchers edited the contents of a pair of donor lungs to better match the recipient, and how pain can affect a baby’s development and what parents can do about it.

Peanut allergies are being treated in an…interesting new way. 

• "Fecal transplant pills helped some peanut allergy sufferers in a small trial” by
  • https://www.sciencenews.org/article/fecal-transplant-pills-peanut-allergy-clinical-trial-poop-bacteria
• “Good early results with fecal microbiota therapy for peanut-allergic patients” by Bethany Tripp / Boston Children’s Hospital
  • https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/944014
• “Fecal matter pills used to treat peanut allergies in Boston study” by Heather Hegedus
  • https://www.boston25news.com/news/fecal-matter-pills-used-to-treat-peanut-allergies-in-boston-study/875577919/
• “Fecal Microbiota Transplant: We Know Its History, but Can We Predict Its Future?” by Todd H. Baron, MD (Mayo Clinic Proceedings)
  • https://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(13)00481-3/fulltext
• Peanut allergy facts - NIH
  • https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10200001/

Lungs can now be edited for a better organ donor match. 

• "Researchers Want to Create 'Universal Donor' Lungs” by Sara Harrison
  • https://www.wired.com/story/researchers-want-to-create-universal-donor-lungs/
• “Creating 'universal' transplant organs: New study moves us one step closer.” by Nicoletta Lanese
  • https://www.livescience.com/universal-blood-type-transplant-lungs-study
• "Scientists Say They've Found a Way to Create Universal Donor Lungs" by Ed Cara
  • https://gizmodo.com/universal-donor-lungs-research-1848548951
• “Researchers Investigate How to Make Donated Organs Compatible With Any Blood Type” by Meagan Drillinger
  • https://www.healthline.com/health-news/researchers-investigate-how-to-make-donated-organs-compatible-with-any-blood-type
• “In medical first, kidneys from gene-edited pig implanted into brain-dead patient” by Elizabeth Chuck
  • https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/kidneys-gene-edited-pig-implanted-brain-dead-patient-rcna12928

Pain isn’t just physically bad for babies - it can stunt their development. Here’s how doctors are treating it. 

• "Doctors learned how to save premature infants’ lives. They forgot about pain." by Brian Resnick
  • https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/22949159/nicu-babies-pain-treatments-podcast-unexplainable
• “Skin-to-skin contact with a parent may reduce newborn babies’ brain response to pain” by Jason Goodyer
  • https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/skin-to-skin-contact-with-a-parent-may-reduce-newborn-babies-brain-response-to-pain/
• "What parents need to know about pain in newborns" by Claire McCarthy, MD
  • https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/what-parents-need-to-know-about-pain-in-newborns-201601269076
• “Miracle baby finally leaves NICU after 460 days” by Harper Robinson
  • https://fox8.com/news/miracle-baby-finally-leaves-nicu-after-460-days/

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Today you’ll learn about how using a face in marketing makes people more likely to align themselves with social causes, how scientists in China have developed a pair of glasses that use ultrasound technology to measure our eyes blinking, and how cats can distinguish between speech directed at them and other humans. 

The Power of the Face 

• “The Power of Putting a Human Face on Social Causes” by Association for Psychological Science
  • feed-me-the-power-of-putting-a-human-face-on-social-causes.html">https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/releases/please-feed-me-the-power-of-putting-a-human-face-on-social-causes.html
• “Helping Fellow Beings: Anthropomorphized Social Causes and the Role of Anticipatory Guilt” by Hee-Kyung Ahn, Hae Joo Kim, and Pankaj Aggarwal (PAYWALLED)
  • https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0956797613496823
• “Reasons Why Putting a Human Face in Your Marketing Campaign Is an Essential Strategy” by Alan Draper
  • https://www.business2community.com/marketing/reasons-why-putting-a-human-face-in-your-marketing-campaign-is-an-essential-strategy-02104065

Ultrasound Glasses 

• “New Technology Detects Eye Blinking With Ultrasound” by Melisha Yashinski
  • https://sciworthy.com/new-technology-detects-eye-blinking-with-ultrasound/
• “MEMS ultrasonic transducers for safe, low-power and portable eye-blinking monitoring” by Sheng Sun, Jianyuan Wang, Menglun Zhang, Yuan Ning, Dong Ma, Yi Yuan, Pengfei Niu, Zhicong Rong, Zhuochen Wang & Wei Pang
  • https://www.nature.com/articles/s41378-022-00396-w

Listening Cat 

• “Cat got your tongue: Cats distinguish between speech directed at them and humans” by SPRINGER NATURE
  • https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/968597
• “Cats can tell when speech is directed at them” By Andrei Ionescu
  • https://www.earth.com/news/cats-can-tell-when-speech-is-directed-at-them/
• “Discrimination of cat-directed speech from human-directed speech in a population of indoor companion cats (Felis catus)” by Charlotte de Mouzon et al. (PAYWALL)
  • https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10071-022-01674-w

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Today you’ll learn about how time flies as we age, how scientists are learning more and more about the microbiome within a human body, and the potential for a new phone app that can predict when you might die.

Time Flies 

• “Why Does 'Time Fly' As We Get Older?” by Christopher Dwyer
  • https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/thoughts-thinking/202209/why-does-time-fly-we-get-older
• “Why time flies so fast as we get older” BY ABIGAIL SAWYER
  • https://www.biotechniques.com/cell-and-tissue-biology/why-time-flies-as-we-get-older/

Human Microbiome

• “Scientists Have Made A Human Microbiome From Scratch” by Carl Zimmer
  • microbiome-bacteria.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/06/science/human-microbiome-bacteria.html
• “Design, construction, and in vivo augmentation of a complex gut microbiome” by Alice G. Cheng et al.
  • https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(22)00990-4?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0092867422009904%3Fshowall%3Dtrue

Smartphone Death Predictor  

• “Your smartphone could be used to estimate your risk of dying” by Grace Wade
  • https://www.newscientist.com/article/2343342-your-smartphone-could-be-used-to-estimate-your-risk-of-dying/
• “Smartphones could be used to predict a person's risk of dying, study finds” by Cathal Ryan
  • https://www.buzz.ie/lifestyle/health/study-predict-mortality-rates-smartphone-28316953
• “Population analysis of mortality risk: Predictive models from passive monitors using motion sensors for 100,000 UK Biobank participants” by Haowen Zhou, Ruoqing Zhu, Anita Ung, and Bruce Schatz
  • https://journals.plos.org/digitalhealth/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pdig.0000045

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Today we discuss how the body can physically feel emotions, how axolotls can regenerate their brains, and how pigs can play peacemakers during pig-on-pig fights. 

Body Map

• “Where Are Emotions Felt In The Body?” by Juliana Ukiomogbe
  • https://greatist.com/connect/emotional-body-maps-infographic#infographic
• “Bodily maps of emotions” by Lauri Nummenmaa, Enrico Glerean, Riitta Hari, and Jari K. Hietanen
  • https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1321664111

Brain 2.0 

• “Axolotl Weirdos Can Regrow Their Brains, A New Map Reveals Their Regeneration Secret” by Ashley Maynard
  • https://www.livescience.com/axolotls-can-regenerate-their-brains
• “Adult axolotls can regenerate original neuronal diversity in response to brain injury” by Ryoji Amamoto, Violeta Gisselle Lopez Huerta, Emi Takahashi, Guangping Dai, Aaron K Grant, Zhanyan Fu, and Paola Arlotta
  • https://elifesciences.org/articles/13998

Pig Bystanders 

• “Pig bystanders are pretty good at resolving anxiety and conflict in the pen” by Laura Baisas
  • https://www.popsci.com/environment/pig-aggression-intervention/
• “Bystander Effect” by Psychology Today Staff
  • https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/bystander-effect
• “Pigs mediate barnyard fights with a light touch of the snout, study says” By Leo Sands
  • https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2022/11/10/pigs-study-conflict-fight/

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Today we explore how astronauts’ blood mutates when coming back from space, how our screens are aging us, and the potential extinction event of the snow crab. 

Astronaut Blood  

• “Astronauts' blood shows signs of DNA mutations due to spaceflight” by Elizabeth Howell
  • https://www.space.com/astronaut-spaceflight-cancer-dna-mutations-study
• “Researchers Find Spaceflight May Be Associated With DNA Mutations and Increased Risk of Developing Heart Disease and Cancer” by Mount Sinai
• https://www.mountsinai.org/about/newsroom/2022/fesearchers-find-spaceflight-may-be-associated-with-dna-mutations-and-increased-risk-of-developing-heart-disease-and-cancer

Screen Wrinkles 

• “Your phone screen could be making you age quicker” by Alex Hughes
  • https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/your-phone-screen-could-be-making-you-age-quicker/
• “Too much blue light can accelerate aging ... at least for flies” by Sarah Sloat
• https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/much-blue-light-can-accelerate-aging-least-flies-rcna44707

Save the Snow Crab 

• “What made billions of snow crabs disappear from the Bering Sea?” By Joanna Thompson
  • https://www.livescience.com/billions-snow-crabs-vanish-from-bering-sea
• “Valuable crab populations are in a ‘very scary’ decline in warming Bering Sea” by Hal Bernton
  • https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/valuable-crab-populations-crash-in-a-warming-bering-sea/
• “Determination of Overfishing or an Overfished Condition: A Notice” by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
  • https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2022/02/10/2022-02857/determination-of-overfishing-or-an-overfished-condition

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Today you’ll learn about how kids’ well-being can affect adult heart health, what our ears can tell us about the cosmos, and how playing music meant for oysters can help them adapt to climate change. 

Happy Healthy Kids 

• “Protecting Children’s Psychological Well-being Could Help Strengthen Their Hearts as Adults” by Boehm, J. K.
  • sept-childhood-psychological-health-adult-hearts.html">https://www.psychologicalscience.org/publications/observer/obsonline/2022-sept-childhood-psychological-health-adult-hearts.html
• “Psychological Well-Being in Childhood and Cardiometabolic Risk in Middle Adulthood: Findings From the 1958 British Birth Cohort” by Julia K. Boehm
• https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09567976221075608

Hearing Data 

• “Scientists are turning data into sound to listen to the whispers of the universe (and more)” by Jeffrey Cooke
  • https://www.space.com/astronomy-sonification-turn-data-to-music
• “Sonification and Sound Design for Astronomy Research, Education and Public Engagement” by A. Zanella
  • https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.13536

Oystersong 

• “Playing sea soundscapes can summon thousands of baby oysters – and help regrow oyster reefs” by Dominic McAfee
  • https://theconversation.com/playing-sea-soundscapes-can-summon-thousands-of-baby-oysters-and-help-regrow-oyster-reefs-188006
• “Soundscape enrichment enhances recruitment and habitat building on new oyster reef restorations” by Dominic McAfee, Brittany R. Williams, Lachlan McLeod, Andreas Reuter, Zak Wheaton, and Sean D. Connell
  • https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2664.14307
• “Oyster Reefs at Risk and Recommendations for Conservation, Restoration, and Management” by Michael W. Beck et al.
  • https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/61/2/107/242615

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Today we discuss the benefits of taking breaks during work, how milk led to death, and a new configuration of lights that might lead to a massive decrease in the amount of motorcycle accidents that happen at night. 

Healthy Breaks 

• “Microbreaks may help to prevent workplace burnout” by Neil McKim
  • https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/microbreaks-may-help-to-prevent-workplace-burnout/
• “Microbreaks can increase your well-being, but only if you do these types of activities, experts say” by Megan Marples
  • https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/31/health/microbreaks-benefits-report-wellness/index.html

Diarrhea Gene 

• “Famine and disease may have driven ancient Europeans’ lactose tolerance” by Bruce Bower
  • https://www.sciencenews.org/article/lactose-tolerance-milk-famine-disease-ancient-europe
• “Famine and disease drove the evolution of lactose tolerance in Europe” by University of Bristol
  • https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/07/220727110700.htm

Motorcycle Light 

• “New motorcycle lighting design could save lives” by Rice University
  • https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/968338#.Y090EEpxNdQ.reddit
• “Effect of motorcycle lighting configurations on drivers’ perceptions of closing during nighttime driving” by Bradley W. Weaver et al.
• https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1369847822001942

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Today we explore how technology is making us lonely, how a new pair of glasses may be expanding your idea of a computer screen, and how hitting the snooze button too many times could ruin your sleep hygiene. 

Techno-Lonely  

• “Cultivate Deeper Connections Using the Science of Friendship” BY Ryan Jenkins
  • https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-case-connection/202209/cultivate-deeper-connections-using-the-science-friendship
• “Teens around the world are lonelier than a decade ago. The reason may be smartphones” by Tara Bahrampour
  • https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/teens-loneliness-smart-phones/2021/07/20/cde8c866-e84e-11eb-8950-d73b3e93ff7f_story.html

TV Glasses  

• “Lenovo’s New Glasses Project A Computer Display Inches From Your Eyes” by Daniel Gyllhem
  • https://vigourtimes.com/lenovos-new-glasses-project-a-computer-display-inches-from-your-eyes/
• “The Lenovo Glasses T1 are a monitor you wear on your face” by Joseph Foley
  • https://www.creativebloq.com/news/lenovo-glasses-t1
• “Lenovo Glasses T1 unveiled: Take a private big screen experience anywhere” by Darragh Murphy
  • https://www.laptopmag.com/news/lenovo-glasses-T1-wearable-display

Snooze Button

• “Hitting the snooze button? You’re far from alone, study shows” by UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME
  • https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/968205
• “Snoozing: an examination of a common method of waking” by Stephen M Mattingly et al.
  • https://academic.oup.com/sleep/article/45/10/zsac184/6661272?login=false

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Let’s talk about a recent study that shows children are more likely to be honest with their emotions when talking to a robot, a revolutionary new way to make single-use coffee pods from seaweed, and, trigger warning, how deep brain stimulation might help those suffering from eating disorders. 

Mental Health Robot 

• “Children more candid about mental health when talking to robot, study finds” by Hannah Devlin
  • https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/sep/01/children-mental-health-talking-robot-study-cambridge
• “Robots may be better at spotting mental wellbeing issues in children than traditional methods” by Luke Hurst
• https://www.euronews.com/next/2022/09/01/robots-may-be-better-at-spotting-mental-wellbeing-issues-in-children-than-traditional-meth

Seaweed Coffee 

• “‘Revolutionary’ seaweed coffee balls could save thousands of tons of plastic waste” by Samuel Webb
  • seaweed-coffee-balls-could-103117132.html?guccounter=1">https://www.yahoo.com/news/revolutionary-seaweed-coffee-balls-could-103117132.html?guccounter=1
• “Coffee Machine Ditches Plastic Pods, Uses Compressed ‘Coffee Balls’ Instead” by Adrianna Nine
  • https://www.extremetech.com/electronics/339468-coffee-machine-ditches-plastic-pods-uses-compressed-coffee-balls-instead

Brain Stimulation for ED

• “Effectiveness of Deep Brain Stimulation in Treatment of Anorexia Nervosa and Obesity: A Systematic Review” by Timothy I Hsu et al.
  • https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36191890/
• “Deep brain stimulation” by Mayo Clinic
  • https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/deep-brain-stimulation/about/pac-20384562

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Today you’ll learn about the behaviors researchers say can make us more connected with each other, how China is building an AI-powered, 3D Printed dam, and how an over-reliance on the English language is causing problems in the field of cognitive science. 

Health and Connection 

• “Feeling connected enhances mental and physical health – here are 4 research-backed ways to find moments of connection with loved ones and strangers” by Dave Smallen
  • https://theconversation.com/feeling-connected-enhances-mental-and-physical-health-here-are-4-research-backed-ways-to-find-moments-of-connection-with-loved-ones-and-strangers-185012
• “Infant-Mother Face-to-Face Interaction: Age and Gender Differences in Coordination and the Occurrence of Miscoordination” by Edward Z. Tronick and Jeffery F. Cohn1
  • https://www.jstor.org/stable/1131074?origin=crossref

3D Dam 

• “China Proposed To Build A Dam with a Distributed 3D Printer” by RUPENDRA BRAHAMBHATT
  • https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/08/chinese-propose-to-build-a-dam-with-a-distributed-3d-printer/
• “3D printing of large filled construction projects” by Tianyun Liu
  • http://jst.tsinghuajournals.com/EN/10.16511/j.cnki.qhdxxb.2022.25.045#1

Reliance on English 

• “Over-reliance on English hinders cognitive science” by Damián E. Blasi et al.
  • https://www.cell.com/trends/cognitive-sciences/fulltext/S1364-6613(22)00236-4?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS1364661322002364%3Fshowall%3Dtrue
• “How English Dominates Cognitive Science” By Rocío Txabarriaga
  • https://slator.com/how-english-dominates-cognitive-science/

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Today we explore the science behind getting great ideas in the shower, how regular chocolate consumption can slow down cognitive decline, and how a black hole recently burped out the remnants of a star it absorbed four YEARS ago! 

Shower Ideas  

• “The Science of Why You Have Great Ideas in The Shower” by Stacey Colino
  • https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/the-science-of-why-you-have-great-ideas-in-the-shower/ar-AA10ANav
• “An improved neuroanatomical model of the default-mode network reconciles previous neuroimaging and neuropathological findings” by Pedro Nascimento Alves, Chris Foulon, Vyacheslav Karolis, Danilo Bzdok, Daniel S. Margulies, Emmanuelle Volle & Michel Thiebaut de Schotten
  • https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-019-0611-3

Medicinal Chocolate 

• “Daily Chocolate May Rescue The Brain From Cognitive Decline” by Gary Wenk
  • https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/your-brain-food/202209/daily-chocolate-may-rescue-the-brain-cognitive-decline
• “Daily multi-vitamins may improve brain function in older people – US study” by Ian Sample
  • https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/sep/14/daily-multi-vitamins-may-improve-brain-function-in-older-people-us-study

Black Holes Burping

• “‘We’ve Never Seen Anything Like This Before:’ Black Hole Spews Out Material Years After Shredding Star” by Harvard Center for Astrophysics
  • https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/weve-never-seen-anything-black-hole-spews-out-material-years-after-shredding-star
• “Ask Ethan: Are Black Holes Made Of Dark Matter?” by Ethan Siegel
  • https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2020/09/04/ask-ethan-are-black-holes-made-of-dark-matter/?sh=77bd9483438b
• “A Mildly Relativistic Outflow Launched Two Years after Disruption in Tidal Disruption Event AT2018hyz” by Y. Cendes et al.
  • https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac88d0
• “Black hole is 'burping out' a 'spaghettified' star it devoured years ago” by Robert Lea
  • https://www.space.com/black-hole-spews-star-devoured-years-ago
• “Are black holes and dark matter the same?” by University of Miami
  • https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/12/211220120813.htm#:~:text=Astrophysicists%20suggest%20that%20primordial%20black,dark%20matter%20in%20the%20universe.

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We discuss how scientists have developed a cancer-detecting contact lens, the behaviors of inebriated dolphins, and how listening to birds singing can help our mental health! 

Smart Contacts 

• “Scientists Create Smart Contact Lenses That Diagnose Cancer” by Ophthalmology Breaking News
  • https://ophthalmologybreakingnews.com/scientists-create-smart-contact-lenses-that-diagnose-cancer
• “A Microchambers Containing Contact Lens for the Noninvasive Detection of Tear Exosomes” by Shaopei Li, Yangzhi Zhu, Reihaneh Haghniaz, Satoru Kawakita, Shenghan Guan, Jianjun Chen, Zijie Li, Kalpana Mandal, Jamal Bahari, Shilp Shah, Juchen Guo, Heemin Kang, Wujin Sun, Han-Jun Kim, Vadim Jucaud, Mehmet R. Dokmeci, Pete Kollbaum, Chi Hwan Lee, and Ali Khademhosseini
  • https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adfm.202206620?af=R

Stoned Dolphins 

• “Dolphins 'Deliberately Get High' on Puffer Fish Nerve Toxins By Carefully Chewing and Passing Them Around” by Adam Withnall
  • facts-puffer-fish-high-b1847115.html">https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/dolphin-facts-puffer-fish-high-b1847115.html
• “Dolphins Getting High on Fish Toxin? Or Just a Load of Puff?” by NBC News
  • https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/dolphins-getting-high-fish-toxin-or-just-load-puff-n3691

Birdsongs vs Traffic

• “Birdsongs alleviate anxiety and paranoia in healthy participants” by E. Stobbe, J. Sundermann, L. Ascone & S. Kühn
  • https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-20841-0
• “Listen! Birdsong Is Good for Mental Health” by Nicole Siller
  • https://neurosciencenews.com/birdsong-mental-health-21639/

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Today you’ll learn about the science of cognitive bias, how scientists may have found a way to turn your body into a battery, and how the first 3D-printed school in Europe is about to be built in Ukraine.  

Cognitive Bias 

• “Cognitive Biases and Brain Biology Help Explain Why Facts Don't Change Minds” by Keith M. Bellizzi
  • https://theconversation.com/cognitive-biases-and-brain-biology-help-explain-why-facts-dont-change-minds-186530
• “Misinformation and Its Correction: Continued Influence and Successful Debiasing” by  Stephan Lewandowsky, Ullrich K. H. Ecker, Colleen M. Seifert, Norbert Schwarz, and John Cook.
  • https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1529100612451018

Body Battery 

• “Scientists Found a Way To Turn Your Body Into a Battery With Your Clothes On” by Drew Turney
  • https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/a40807192/clothes-that-power-electronics/
• “Stretchable, Breathable, and Stable Lead-Free Perovskite/Polymer Nanofiber Composite for Hybrid Triboelectric and Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting” by Feng Jiang, Xinran Zhou, Jian Lv, Jian Chen, Juntong Chen, Haruethai Kongcharoen, Yihui Zhang, and Pooi See Lee
  • https://www3.ntu.edu.sg/CorpComms2/Releases/NR2022/NR_220512_energy/energy%20harvesting.pdf

3D Printed School 

• “EUROPE’S FIRST 3D PRINTED SCHOOL TO BE BUILT IN WAR-TORN UKRAINE” by PAUL HANAPHY
  • https://3dprintingindustry.com/news/europes-first-3d-printed-school-to-be-built-in-war-torn-ukraine-215791/
• “The first 3D-printed school in a warzone is being printed in Ukraine” by Giulia Carbonaro
  • 3d-printed-school-world-150512856.html">https://uk.news.yahoo.com/first-3d-printed-school-world-150512856.html
• “Ukraine: World’s first 3D-printed school in a warzone, foundation laid” by Baba Tamim
  • https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/worlds-first-3d-printed-school-ukraine

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Today we explore whether there is a potential long-term cure for asthma based on recent studies, how shark intestines are shaped exactly like a Tesla Valve, and what happens when you transplant human brain cells in newborn rats. 

Asthma Cure 

• “Potential Long-Term Treatment for Asthma Found” by Aston University
  • https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/08/220809141233.htm
• “A Potential Long-Term Asthma Treatment Has Passed Early Trials in Mice” by DAVID NIELD
  • https://www.sciencealert.com/a-potential-long-term-asthma-treatment-has-passed-early-trials-in-mice
• Most Recent Asthma Data
  • https://www.cdc.gov/asthma/most_recent_national_asthma_data.htm

Shark Intestines 

• “Shark Intestines Spiral Like a Valve Invented By Nikola Tesla” by Alex Fox
  • https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/sharks-intestines-spiral-valve-invented-nikola-tesla-180978307/
• “Shark spiral intestines may operate as Tesla valves” by Samantha C. Leigh, Adam P. Summers, Sarah L. Hoffmann and Donovan P. German
  • https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2021.1359

Human Brain Cells in Rats

• “Human brain cells transplanted into baby rats’ brains grow and form connections” by Jessica Hamzelou
  • https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/10/12/1061204/human-brain-cells-transplanted-baby-rats-brains/
• “Maturation and circuit integration of transplanted human cortical organoids” by Omer Revah et al.
  • https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05277-w

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Today we discuss how only four minutes of small talk with a stranger can help you predict their personality traits, an exciting biodegradable battery option on the horizon, and a new discovery into the origins of dragons!  

Small Talk 

• “Four Minutes of Small Talk Can Reveal Key Personality Traits” by Sascha Pare
  • https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/aug/31/four-minutes-of-small-talk-can-reveal-key-personality-traits-study-says
• “Small Talk and Theory of Mind in Strategic Decision-Making” by Neha Bose and Daniel Sgroi
  • https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/staff/dsgroi/theoryofmind.pdf

Crab Battery 

• “Crab and Lobster Shells Could Be Used To Make Renewable Batteries” by Sofia Quaglia
  • https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/sep/01/crab-lobster-shells-could-used-make-renewable-batteries
• “A sustainable chitosan-zinc electrolyte for high-rate zinc-metal batteries” by Meiling Wu, Ye Zhang, Lin Xu, Chunpeng Yang, Min Hong, Mingjin Cui, Bryson C. Clifford, Shuaiming He, Shuangshuang Jing, Yan Yao, and Liangbing Hu
  • https://www.cell.com/matter/fulltext/S2590-2385(22)00414-3

Ancient Dragons

• “Ancient 'dragons' were Earth’s first gliding reptiles” By Jennifer Nalewicki
  • https://www.livescience.com/ancient-gliding-reptile-dragon-trees
• “The postcranial skeleton of the gliding reptile Coelurosauravus elivensis Piveteau, 1926 (Diapsida, Weigeltisauridae) from the late Permian Of Madagascar” by Valentin Buffa, Eberhard Frey, J. Sébastien Steyer & Michel Laurin
  • https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2022.2108713?utm_medium=email&utm_source=EmailStudio&utm_campaign=Tree+canopy+changes+facilitated+the+evolution+of+the+first-ever+gliding+reptile%2C+new+study+suggests_4423303&cookieSet=1

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Let’s talk about a potential new high-tech mine in Minnesota, how scientists have created a synthetic mouse embryo using stem cells, and a major breakthrough in the cause of and treatment for Down Syndrome.  

Remote Mines

• “This Remote Mine Could Foretell the Future of America’s Electric Car Industry” by Ana Swanson
  • cars-us-nickel-mine.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/30/business/economy/electric-cars-us-nickel-mine.html
• “Fight over Minnesota nickel mine plan by Talon Metals is local — and global, too” by Mark Reilly
  • metals-nickel-mine-minnesota.html">https://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/news/2022/08/31/talon-metals-nickel-mine-minnesota.html

Mouse Embryos 

• “Scientists Use Stem Cells To Create Synthetic Mouse Embryos” by Associated Press
  • https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/scientists-use-stem-cells-create-synthetic-mouse-embryos-rcna44881
• “Post-gastrulation synthetic embryos generated ex utero from mouse naive ESCs” by Shadi Tarazi, Alejandro Aguilera-Castrejon, Carine Joubran, Nadir Ghanem, Shahd Ashouokhi, Francesco Roncato, Emilie Wildschutz, Montaser Haddad, Bernardo Oldak, Elidet Gomez-Cesar, Nir Livnat, Sergey Viukov, Dmitry Lokshtanov, Segev Naveh-Tassa, Max Rose, Suhair Hanna, Calanit Raanan, Ori Brenner, Merav Kedmi, Hadas Keren-Shaul, Tsvee Lapidot, Itay Maza, Noa Novershtern, and Jacob H. Hanna
  • https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674%2822%2900981-3

Down Syndrome Treatment

• “Hormone that could improve cognitive function in Down syndrome identified” By Helen Floersh
  • https://www.fiercebiotech.com/research/scientists-have-identified-hormone-could-restore-cognitive-function-down-syndrome#:~:text=Now%2C%20a%20team%20of%20researchers,it%20could%20improve%20cognitive%20performance.
• “GnRH replacement rescues cognition in Down syndrome” by MARIA MANFREDI-LOZANO et al.
  • https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abq4515

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Today we discuss the science behind a wandering mind, the ins and outs of songs composed by humpback whales, and how an innovative new robotic capsule might help our digestive systems absorb drugs that aren’t as effective to take orally. 

A Wandering Mind   

• “The science of a wandering mind” By Tim Vernimmen
  • https://knowablemagazine.org/article/mind/2022/science-wandering-mind
• “How Self-Generated Thought Shapes Mood—The Relation between Mind-Wandering and Mood Depends on the Socio-Temporal Content of Thoughts” by Florence J. M. Ruby, Jonathan Smallwood, Haakon Engen, and Tania Singer
  • https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0077554

Song of the Humpback

• “Humpback Whales Pass Their Songs Across Oceans” by Carl Zimmer
  • whale-songs-cultural-evolution.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/30/science/humpback-whale-songs-cultural-evolution.html
• “Humpback Whales Almost 9,000 Miles Apart Have Been Caught Singing The Same Song” by Carly Casella
  • https://www.sciencealert.com/humpback-whales-almost-9000-miles-apart-have-been-caught-singing-the-same-song

Robocap

• “RoboCap – The Robotic Capsule Designed to Improve Drug Delivery in the Gut” by Sarah Whelan
  • https://www.technologynetworks.com/drug-discovery/news/robocap-the-robotic-capsule-designed-to-improve-drug-delivery-in-the-gut-366073
• “RoboCap: Robotic mucus-clearing capsule for enhanced drug delivery in the gastrointestinal tract” by SHRIYA S. SRINIVASAN et al.
  • https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scirobotics.abp9066
• “Tiny robotic pill RoboCap delivers drugs to guts and could end injections like insulin” by Nergis Firtina
  • https://interestingengineering.com/health/tiny-robotic-pill-robocap-drugs-guts
• “Human Insulin Injection” by MedLine Plus
  • https://medlineplus.gov/druginfo/meds/a682611.html

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Today we discuss how frog skin stem cells were recently used to create microscopic living machines, how scientists are trying to replicate the powerful punch of a mantis shrimp, and a new breakthrough in the creation of an oral insulin tablet. 

Frog Skin Cells  

• “Frog skin cells turned themselves into living machines” by Laura Sanders
  • https://www.sciencenews.org/article/frog-skin-cells-self-made-living-machines-xenobots
• “A cellular platform for the development of synthetic living machines” by Douglas Blackiston, Emma Lederer, and Michael Levin
  • https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scirobotics.abf1571

Shrimp Robots  

• “Small, Mighty Robots Mimic the Powerful Punch of Mantis Shrimp” by US Army Research Laboratory
  • https://neurosciencenews.com/mantis-shrimp-robot-19301/
• “Robot mimics the powerful punch of the mantis shrimp” by Harvard University
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=If4IURa2Joo

Oral Insulin Tablet  

• “Breakthrough results in developing an oral insulin tablet” by University of British Columbia
  • 08-breakthrough-results-oral-insulin-tablet.html">https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-08-breakthrough-results-oral-insulin-tablet.html
• “Major Breakthrough In Development Of Oral Insulin Tablet Made In Rat Study” by Katie Spaulding
  • https://www.iflscience.com/major-breakthrough-in-development-of-oral-insulin-tablet-made-in-rat-study-65127

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Today you’ll learn about how squirrels are parkour experts and can be used to teach robots to move in a similar way, how artificial intelligence can help expectant mothers predict childbirth risks, and the gangs of dolphins that are roaming our oceans. 

Robot Squirrels 

• “Science’s next great leap: using squirrels to teach robots how to ‘parkour’” by Joe Pinkstone
  • https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/08/05/sciences-next-great-leap-using-squirrels-teach-robots-parkour/
• “Squirrel parkour: How leaping squirrels could inspire more nimble robots” by Lucia F. Jacobs, Nathaniel Hunt & Robert J. Full
  • https://bigthink.com/life/squirrel-biomechanics/
• “SCIENCE’S NEXT GREAT LEAP: USING SQUIRRELS TO TEACH ROBOTS HOW TO ‘PARKOUR’” by Joe Pinkstone
  • https://www.impactlab.com/2021/08/15/sciences-next-great-leap-using-squirrels-to-teach-robots-how-to-parkour/

AI Labor Prediction 

• “Successful Labor Outcomes in Expectant Mothers Using AI” by Mayo Clinic
  • https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/08/220830131708.htm
• “Artificial intelligence is being used to accurately predict women’s childbirth risks” by Tristan Bove
  • intelligence-being-used-accurately-115041630.html?guccounter=1">https://www.yahoo.com/now/artificial-intelligence-being-used-accurately-115041630.html?guccounter=1

Dolphin Gangs

• “Dolphins form largest alliance network outside humans, study finds” by University of Bristol
  • https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/08/220829153233.htm
• “How Do Dolphins Communicate?” by Discovery Cove
  • https://discoverycove.com/orlando/blog/how-do-dolphins-communicate/#:~:text=Dolphins%20Speak%20Body%20Language,each%20other%20and%20spy%20hopping.
• “Dolphins Have Formed the 'Largest Alliance Network Known Outside of Humans'” by Robyn White
  • https://www.newsweek.com/dolphins-formed-largest-alliance-network-known-outside-humans-1738428

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Today you’ll learn about how music is being used to combat dementia, how scientists are making more efficient rocket fuel from bacteria, and the environmental effects of bitcoin mining.

Music and Dementia  

• “Music Helps Patients With Dementia Connect With Loved Ones” by Marla Paul
  • https://neurosciencenews.com/music-alzheimers-connection-21316/
• “Music: Bridging Memories for People With Alzheimer's” by Dennis Thompson
  • https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2022-09-06/music-bridging-memories-for-people-with-alzheimers

Microbe Rocket Fuel

“Bacteria for Blastoff: Using Microbes to Make Supercharged New Rocket Fuel” by Aliyah Kovner

• https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2022/06/30/bacteria-for-blastoff/

“Microbes May Hold the Secret to Creating More Powerful Rocket Fuel” By Kevin Hurler

• https://gizmodo.com/microbes-produce-powerful-and-cleaner-rocket-fuel-1849142045

Bitcoin Mining 

• “Technology: University of New Mexico researchers find Bitcoin mining is environmentally unsustainable” by University of New Mexico
  • https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/966192
• “How Does Bitcoin Mining Work?” by Matt Whittaker
  • https://www.forbes.com/advisor/investing/cryptocurrency/bitcoin-mining/

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Let’s talk about whether “man flu” is fact or fiction, how the Arctic lakes just threw a curveball at our climate change projections, and the genius new way bats are tricking their predators. 

The Myth of Man Flu 

• “Man flu is not a thing – Gender-specific secondary analysis of a prospective randomized-controlled trial for acute rhinosinusitis” by Reidl et al.
  • https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022399922003324?via%3Dihub
• “Stop accusing men of overreacting – 'man flu' really does exist, doctor claims” by Nicola Davis
  • https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/dec/11/stop-accusing-men-of-overreacting-man-flu-really-does-exist-claims-doctor
• “'Man Flu' May Be Real After All, Study Says” by Alice G. Walton
  • https://www.forbes.com/sites/alicegwalton/2017/12/12/man-flu-may-be-an-actual-thing-study-finds/?sh=723fbdb31240
• “The science behind “man flu”” by Kyle Sue
  • https://www.bmj.com/content/359/bmj.j5560
• “Is "man flu" really a thing?” By Robert H. Shmerling, MD
  • https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/man-flu-really-thing-2018010413033

Arctic Lakes 

• “Bats buzz like hornets to scare off owl predators” by Freda Kreier
  • https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01274-1
• “Bats buzz like hornets to scare away predators” by Tess Joosse
  • https://www.science.org/content/article/bats-buzz-hornets-scare-away-predators#:~:text=One%20of%20the%20mouse%2Deared,and%20send%20owls%20scurrying%20away

Buzzing Bats 

• “Arctic lakes are vanishing in surprise climate finding” by University of Florida
  • 08-arctic-lakes-climate.html">https://phys.org/news/2022-08-arctic-lakes-climate.html
• “In a surprise climate change finding, Arctic lakes are vanishing” by Karen Graham
  • https://www.digitaljournal.com/tech-science/in-a-surprise-climate-change-finding-arctic-lakes-are-vanishing/article#ixzz7hLx9zkz6

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We discuss the latest in phone hacking technology, how aquaculture may be able to help the global food crisis, and how engaging with people who speak in a foreign accent may help us retain language.

Hacking Device  

• “Hacking device can secretly swipe and tap your smartphone screen” by Jeremy Hsu
  • https://www.newscientist.com/article/2335970-hacking-device-can-secretly-swipe-and-tap-your-smartphone-screen/
• “‘Invisible finger’ demo hacks the touchscreen” by Billy Hurley
  • https://www.itbrew.com/stories/2022/08/22/invisible-finger-demo-hacks-the-touchscreen

Designer Seaweed 

• “New aquaculture technology can help ease the global food crisis” by Tel-Aviv University
  • https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/08/220831094703.htm
• “Enriched seaweed may be a key element in the fight against world hunger, experts flag” by William Bradford Nichols
  • seaweed-may-be-a-key-element-in-the-fight-against-world-hunger-experts-flag.html">https://www.nutritioninsight.com/news/enriched-seaweed-may-be-a-key-element-in-the-fight-against-world-hunger-experts-flag.html

Accent Exposure 

• Exposure to accents helps children learn words by University of Freiburg
  • https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/966388#.YzXammCICB0.reddit
• “Why do some accents sound better than others?” By Gerry Howley
  • https://theconversation.com/why-do-some-accents-sound-better-than-others-77732

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We discuss a new app that can translate a cat’s meow into human languages, how the Epaulette shark is teaching us about climate change, and a potential treatment that might prevent cerebral palsy.

Flirting Cats  

• “Did My Cat Just Hit On Me? An Adventure in Pet Translation” by Emily Anthes
  • pets-ommunication-artificial-intelligence.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/29/science/cats-pets-ommunication-artificial-intelligence.html
• “Melody matters: An acoustic study of domestic cat meows in six contexts and four mental states” by Susanne Schötz​​, Joost van de Weijer​, and Robert Eklund
  • https://peerj.com/preprints/27926/
• “The Animal Translators” by Emily Anthes
  • animals-naked-mole-rats.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/30/science/translators-animals-naked-mole-rats.html

Walking Sharks 

• “These Sharks Can Walk, and They Might Help Us Understand More About Climate Change” by Orlando Mayorquin
  • https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/08/25/walking-epaulette-shark-climate-change/7879031001/
• “Aquatic Walking and Swimming Kinematics of Neonate and Juvenile Epaulette Sharks” by Marianne E Porter, Andrea V Hernandez, Connor R Gervais, and Jodie L Rummer
  • https://academic.oup.com/icb/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/icb/icac127/6650877?redirectedFrom=fulltext&login=false

Preventing Cerebral Palsy 

• “Study offers hope for preventing cerebral palsy” by University of Auckland
  • https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/966360
• “Tumour necrosis factor blockade after asphyxia in foetal sheep ameliorates cystic white matter injury” by Christopher A. Lear, Benjamin A. Lear, Joanne O. Davidson, Jialin Sae-Jiw, Johanna M. Lloyd, Simerdeep K. Dhillon, Alistair J. Gunn, and Laura Bennet
  • https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36087304/
• “Cerebral Palsy Facts and Statistics” by Pierrette Mimi Poinsett, M.D.
  • https://www.cerebralpalsyguidance.com/cerebral-palsy/research/facts-and-statistics/#:~:text=Around%20764%2C000%20people%20in%20the,with%20cerebral%20palsy%20each%20year.
• What is Cerebral Palsy?
  • https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/cp/facts.html#:~:text=Cerebral%20palsy%20(CP)%20is%20a,problems%20with%20using%20the%20muscles.

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Today we discuss the connection between skin cancer and a leopard gecko named Mr. Frosty, how playing a musical instrument in childhood can affect brain function as we age, and how a new underwater camera can help us explore previously-unseen parts of the ocean. 

Geckos & Skin Cancer 

• “This Gecko Named Mr. Frosty and His 900 Babies May Inspire Human Skin Cancer Treatments” by Elizabeth Gamillo
  • https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/reptiles-frosty-yellow-skin-may-reveal-future-treatments-skin-cancers-humans-180978075/
• “Leopard Gecko Skin Tumors Traced to Cancer Gene” by Longua Guo et al.
  • https://www.hhmi.org/news/leopard-gecko-skin-tumors-traced-to-cancer-gene

Music in Childhood

• “Playing music in childhood linked to a sharper mind in old age, study suggests” by Guardian Staff
  • https://www.theguardian.com/education/2022/aug/29/playing-music-in-childhood-linked-to-a-sharper-mind-in-old-age-study-suggests
• “Experience of playing music in childhood and adolescence linked to better cognitive ability in old age: Study” Edited By: Srishti Singh Sisodia
  • https://www.wionews.com/science/experience-of-playing-music-in-childhood-and-adolescence-linked-to-better-cognitive-ability-in-old-age-study-511864

Underwater Camera

• “MIT engineers build a battery-free, wireless underwater camera” by Adam Zewe
  • https://news.mit.edu/2022/battery-free-wireless-underwater-camera-0926
• “Battery-free wireless imaging of underwater environments” by Sayed Saad Afzal, Waleed Akbar, Osvy Rodriguez, Mario Doumet, Unsoo Ha, Reza Ghaffarivardavagh & Fadel Adib
  • https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-33223-x

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Today we talk about how crystallizing human urine can help save seagrass, a new AI program that can detect early signs of heart disease, and how mosquitos can be used to vaccinate against malaria. 

Pee and Seagrass 

• “Human Pee Might Just Be the Key to Saving Seagrass” by Jesse Kathan
  • https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/human-pee-might-just-be-the-key-to-saving-seagrass-180980368/
• “Use of a wastewater recovery product (struvite) to enhance subtropical seagrass restoration” by C. MacDonnella, F. Bydalek, T.Z. Osborne, A. Beard, S.Barbour, D.Leonard, J. Makinia, and P.W. Ingletta.
  • https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0048969722028133

Heart Sound Maps 

• “Low-cost disease diagnosis by mapping heart sounds” by American Institute of Physics
  • 08-low-cost-disease-diagnosis-heart.html">https://phys.org/news/2022-08-low-cost-disease-diagnosis-heart.html
• “Low-Cost Disease Diagnosis By Mapping Heart Sounds” by Addrew Shawn
  • https://vervetimes.com/low-cost-disease-diagnosis-by-mapping-heart-sounds-sciencedaily/
• “Aortic Stenosis Overview”
  • https://www.heart.org/en/health-topics/heart-valve-problems-and-disease/heart-valve-problems-and-causes/problem-aortic-valve-stenosis
• “Epidemiology of Aortic Valve Stenosis (AS) and of Aortic Valve Incompetence (AI): Is the Prevalence of AS/AI Similar in Different Parts of the World?”
  • https://www.escardio.org/Journals/E-Journal-of-Cardiology-Practice/Volume-18/epidemiology-of-aortic-valve-stenosis-as-and-of-aortic-valve-incompetence-ai#:~:text=Aortic%20stenosis%20is%20the%20second,increasing%20prevalence%20with%20advancing%20age.

Modified Mosquitos 

• “A box of 200 mosquitoes did the vaccinating in this malaria trial. That's not a joke!” By Max Barnhart
  • https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2022/09/21/1112727841/a-box-of-200-mosquitoes-did-the-vaccinating-in-this-malaria-trial-thats-not-a-jo
• “Malaria: Frequently Asked Questions” by CDC
  • https://www.cdc.gov/malaria/about/faqs.html#:~:text=Symptoms%20and%20Diagnosis,-What%20are%20the&text=Symptoms%20of%20malaria%20include%20fever,loss%20of%20red%20blood%20cells.
• “Malaria” by World Health Organization
  • https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/malaria
• “A genetically engineered Plasmodium falciparum parasite vaccine provides protection from controlled human malaria infection” by Murphy et al.
  • https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scitranslmed.abn9709

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Join us for a deep dive into the latest and wildest new discoveries from Ancient Egypt to get you ready for the release of DC’s new film Black Adam, only in theaters. The dead speak! Yes, scientists have recreated the voice of a 3,000 year old mummy and we’ll tell you all about it as well as how some ancient Egyptian tombs contain more than just gold, and a recent discovery as to how the pyramids were built. 

The Dead Speak

• “The dead speak! Scientists recreate voice of 3000-year-old mummy” by Erin Malsbury
  • https://www.science.org/content/article/dead-speak-scientists-re-create-voice-3000-year-old-mummy
• “We can now hear the voice of a mummy 3,000 years after the Egyptian priest last spoke” by Doyle Rice
  • https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/01/24/scientists-recreate-voice-ancient-egyptian-mummy/4557044002/
• “Synthesis of a Vocal Sound from the 3,000 year old Mummy, Nesyamun ‘True of Voice’” by D. M. Howard, J. Schofield, J. Fletcher, K. Baxter, G. R. Iball & S. A. Buckley
  • https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-56316-y
• “First recording of human sound was made today in 1860: Interesting facts about the event” by India Today
  • https://www.indiatoday.in/education-today/gk-&-current-affairs/story/first-recording-of-human-sound-317089-2016-04-09

Egyptian Discoveries 

• “2,600-Year-Old Halloumi Discovered In Ancient Egyptian Tomb” by Jack Dunhill
  • https://www.iflscience.com/2-600-year-old-halloumi-discovered-in-ancient-egyptian-tomb-65398
• “What did ancient Egypt's pharaohs stash inside the pyramids?” by Owen Jarus
  • https://www.livescience.com/what-is-inside-egyptian-pyramids
• “Egyptian Archaeologists Just Uncovered the Sarcophagus of King Ramses II’s Royal Treasurer” by Vittoria Benzine
  • https://news.artnet.com/art-world/egyptian-archaeologists-just-uncovered-the-sarcophagusof-king-ramses-iis-royal-treasurer-2186522
• “Egypt breakthrough as experts suspect Nefertiti is hidden in Tutankhamun’s tomb” by Jacob Paul
  • https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1675646/egypt-neftertiti-tutankhamun-tomb-archaeology-nicholas-reeves
• “Halloumi” by Cheese.com
  • https://www.cheese.com/halloumi/
• “Ramses XI” by Brittanica
  • https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ramses-XI

Pyramid Building

• “A Long-Lost Branch of The Nile Helped in Building Egypt's Pyramids” by Jack Tamisiea
  • nile-river-construction-egypt.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/30/science/pyramids-nile-river-construction-egypt.html
• “A now-dry branch of the Nile helped build Egypt's pyramids, new study says” by Zoe Sottile
  • https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/02/world/nile-river-egypt-pyramid-scn-trnd/index.html
• “How were the Pyramids of Giza built? A long-lost branch of Nile helped” by India Today News Desk
  • https://www.indiatoday.in/science/story/how-were-the-pyramids-of-giza-built-a-long-lost-branch-of-nile-helped-1996608-2022-09-05

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Today we talk about how psilocybin from magic mushrooms can help those struggling with alcohol addiction, a new device that can detect Parkinson’s disease from breathing patterns, and how we can recycle wind turbines.

Magic Addiction Fix

• “Psychedelic ‘Magic Mushroom’ Ingredient Could Help Treat Alcohol Addiction” by Margaret Osborne
  • https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/psychedelic-magic-mushroom-ingredient-could-help-treat-alcohol-addiction-180980658/
• “Psilocybin shows promise for treating alcohol addiction, new study finds” by Oliva Goldhill
  • https://www.statnews.com/2022/08/24/psilocybin-shows-promise-for-treating-alcohol-addiction-study/

Parkinson’s Detection

• “Artificial intelligence model can detect Parkinson's from breathing patterns, researchers show” by ScienceDaily
  • https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/08/220825120322.htm
• “Artificial intelligence-enabled detection and assessment of Parkinson’s disease using nocturnal breathing signals” by Yuzhe Yang, Yuan Yuan, Guo Zhang, Hao Wang, Ying-Cong Chen, Yingcheng Liu, Christopher G. Tarolli, Daniel Crepeau, Jan Bukartyk, Mithri R. Junna, Aleksandar Videnovic, Terry D. Ellis, Melissa C. Lipford, Ray Dorsey & Dina Katabi
  • https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-022-01932-x

Wind Turbines

• “Recycled Wind Turbine Blades Can Make Gummy Bears, Diapers Combining Glass Fibers with Plant-Derived Polymer” by Marie Morales
  • wind-turbine-blades-make-gummy-bears-diapers-combining-glass.htm">https://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/39610/20220829/recycled-wind-turbine-blades-make-gummy-bears-diapers-combining-glass.htm
• “Recycled Wind Turbines Could Be Made into Plexiglass, Diapers or Gummy Bears” by Sophie Bushwick
  • https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/recycled-wind-turbines-could-be-made-into-plexiglass-diapers-or-gummy-bears/

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Today we explore a potential scientific fountain of youth, how cooperation among strangers has, contrary to popular belief, actually increased in recent years, and how the pandemic has caused the perception of time distortion. 

Reverse Aging

• “Scientists actually reversed human aging using a revolutionary new treatment” by Mike Wehner
• https://bgr.com/science/age-reversal-oxygen-therapy/
• “Human aging process biologically reversed in world first” by Sarah Knapton
• https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/11/18/human-ageing-process-biologically-reversed-world-first/

Cooperation Increase

• “New study shows that cooperation among strangers in the US has increased since the 1950s” by Douglas Heingartner
  • https://www.psychnewsdaily.com/cooperation-among-strangers-is-increasing/
• “Cooperation among strangers has increased since the 1950s” by Yu Kou
  • https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2022/07/cooperation-among-strangers

Time & Covid

• “Study examines distorted time perception during pandemic” by ScienceDaily
  • https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/08/220823170747.htm
• “Trauma, time and mental health — new study unpacks pandemic phenomenon” By Erin Blakemore
  • https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/09/05/covid-mental-health-time-distortion

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We discuss how digital media affects parents and caregivers, how friends often have similar body odor, and the cancer-sniffing abilities of locusts. 

Parents & Screens 

• “Using digital media to relax is related to lower-quality parenting” by Media Relations, University of Waterloo
  • https://uwaterloo.ca/news/media/using-digital-media-relax-related-lower-quality-parenting
• “Parents attached to digital devices more likely to yell at their kids, are less ‘present’ in their lives” By Chris Melore
  • https://studyfinds.org/digital-media-lousy-parents/

BFFs Smell the Same

• “Scent of a friend: Similarities in body odor may contribute to social bonding” by Noah Sobel
  • https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/06/220627125010.htm

Locusts Find Cancer 

• “Locusts can 'sniff' out human cancer” by Matt Davenport
  • https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/08/220805154405.htm
• “Locusts Can Smell Cancer, And It Could Give Us A Brilliant New Way to Save Lives” by David Nield
  • https://www.sciencealert.com/locusts-are-actually-great-at-sniffing-out-cancer-scientists-find

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We delve into which foods that research shows will become more popular as we adjust to climate change, the discovery of a new planet covered in water, and the effects of Arctic storms on ice levels. 

Food for Climate Change 

• “These six foods may become more popular as the planet warms” by Anna Gibbs
  • https://www.sciencenews.org/article/food-climate-future-nutrition-millet-seaweed-cassava-mussels
• “What Is Cassava? Health Benefits and How to Prepare It” by Healthline
  • https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/cassava

New Water Planet 

• “An extrasolar world covered in water?” By University of Montreal
  • 08-extrasolar-world.html">https://phys.org/news/2022-08-extrasolar-world.html
• “Newly discovered exoplanet may be a ‘Super Earth’ covered in water” by Laura Baisas
  • popsci.com/science/extrasolar-planet-ocean-water-space/

Stormchasers

• “Arctic storm chasers brave giant cyclones to understand how they chew up sea ice” by Eric Hand
  • https://www.science.org/content/article/arctic-stormchasers-brave-giant-cyclones-understand-chew-sea-ice
• “Climate scientists chase Arctic storms” by Victoria Gill
  • https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-62490130

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We discuss how VR is as effective as psychedelics at helping people reach transcendence, whether Stonehenge may have been an ancient calendar, and how COVID-19 has affected women in late pregnancy. 

VR & Transcendence 

• “VR is as good as psychedelics at helping people reach transcendence” by Hana Kiros
  • https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/08/06/1056727/vr-virtual-reality-psychedelics-transcendence/
• “VR Experience Simulates The Feeling Of LSD & Mushrooms” by Kyle Melnick
  • https://vrscout.com/news/vr-experience-simulates-the-feeling-of-lsd-mushrooms/#

Stonehenge Calendar 

• “Stonehenge May Have Been an Ancient Solar Calender” by Tom Metcalfe
  • https://www.nbcnews.com/science/weird-science/stonehenge-may-ancient-solar-calendar-study-finds-rcna18020
• “​​Stonehenge may be an ancient solar calendar” by Sara Novak
  • https://astronomy.com/news/2022/07/stonehenge-may-be-an-ancient-solar-calendar

Pregnant With Covid

• “Higher rates of preterm birth in women infected with COVID-19 in late pregnancy” by Noga Fallach, Yaakov Segal, Jeny Agassy, Galit Perez, Asaf Peretz, Gabriel Chodick, Sivan Gazit, Tal Patalon, Amir Ben Tov, Inbal Goldshtein.
  • https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/07/220720150610.htm
• “Pregnancy outcomes after SARS-CoV-2 infection by trimester: A large, population-based cohort study” by Noga Fallach, Yaakov Segal,Jeny Agassy,Galit Perez,Asaf Peretz,Gabriel Chodick,Sivan Gazit,Tal Patalon,Amir Ben Tov,Inbal Goldshtein
  • https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.027089

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Let’s talk about how dating apps stress us out, the discovery of a massive ancient frog grave, and how gene therapy can potentially cure colorblindness. 

Dating App Data

• “The agony of partner choice: The effect of excessive partner availability on fear of being single, self-esteem, and partner choice overload” by Marina F. Thomas, Alice Binder, and Jörg Matthes.
• https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0747563221003009
• “Science of Dating: How Many Times Should You Swipe on a Dating App?” by Ellen Nguyen.

https://medium.com/tinglymind/science-of-dating-how-many-times-should-you-swipe-on-a-dating-app-acb28e6e709a

Mass Frog Grave

“Ancient frogs in mass grave died from too much sex – new research” by Daniel Falk

• https://theconversation.com/ancient-frogs-in-mass-grave-died-from-too-much-sex-new-research-188562
• “How Frogs Benefited From The Dinosaurs' Extinction” by Merrit Kennedy
  • https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/07/03/535383841/how-frogs-benefited-from-the-dinosaurs-extinction?t=1661975212547
• “The skeletal taphonomy of anurans from the Eocene Geiseltal Konservat-Lagerstätte, Germany: insights into the controls on fossil anuran preservation” by Daniel Falk, Oliver Wings, and Maria E. McNamara
  • https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/spp2.1453

Cure for Colorblind

• “Gene therapy partly restores cone function in two completely colorblind children” by Science Daily
  • https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/08/220824102951.htm
• “A demonstration of cone function plasticity after gene therapy in achromatopsia” by Mahtab Farahbakhsh, Elaine J Anderson, Roni O Maimon-Mor, Andy Rider, John A Greenwood, Nashila Hirji, Serena Zaman, Pete R Jones, D Samuel Schwarzkopf, Geraint Rees, Michel Michaelides, and Tessa M Dekker
  • https://academic.oup.com/brain/advance-article/doi/10.1093/brain/awac226/6673168?login=false

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Our stories today discuss how bee venom can potentially help fight cancer, the history of manatees, and recent discoveries in how monkeys use tools. 

Bee Venom Kills Cancer

• “Honeybee venom kills aggressive breast cancer cells: Australian study” by Rachel Arthur
  • reporter.com/Article/2020/09/07/Honeybee-venom-kills-aggressive-breast-cancer-cells-study">https://www.biopharma-reporter.com/Article/2020/09/07/Honeybee-venom-kills-aggressive-breast-cancer-cells-study
• “Honeybee venom 'kills some breast cancer cells'” by BBC
  • https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-53994058
• “Honeybee venom kills aggressive breast cancer cells” by James Kingsland
  • https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/honeybee-venom-kills-aggressive-breast-cancer-cells#Blocking-messages

Giant Manatees

• “New research tracks the history of manatees across Earth's oceans” by Karl Bates
  • https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/08/220825120334.htm
• “History of Manatees Across World’s Oceans Tracked by New Research” by Cristen Hemingway Jaynes
  • history-science.html">https://www.ecowatch.com/manatee-history-science.html

Monkey Masturbation

• “Some Monkeys Use Stone Tools for Pleasure, Study Suggests” by Emily Anthes
  • sex-toys-masturbation.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/26/science/monkeys-sex-toys-masturbation.html
• “Monkeys in Indonesia use rocks as 'sex toys'” by Patrick Pester
  • https://www.livescience.com/monkey-stone-sex-toy-hypothesis

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We explore how online learning affects the body, how mood affects alcohol cravings in both men and women, and how dogs have evolved to manipulate us! 

Online Learning

• “Online teaching triggers a different response in the body” by Meike Drießen
  • https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/08/220817104031.htm
• “Neuroanatomy, Parasympathetic Nervous System” by Jacob Tindle & Prasanna Tadi.
  • https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK553141/#:~:text=The%20parasympathetic%20nervous%20system%20predominates,digestion%20and%20urination.%5B1%5D

Alcohol Cravings

• “Mood Influences Alcohol Craving Differently in Men and Women” by Neuroscience News
  • https://neurosciencenews.com/mood-alcohol-cravings-21321/
• “Liking, Wanting and the Incentive-Sensitization Theory of Addiction” by Kent C. Berridge and Terry E Robinson
  • https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5171207/#:~:text=The%20incentive%2Dsensitization%20theory%20posits,an%20amplification%20of%20'liking'.
• “Mood Shifts Have Opposite Impact on Alcohol Cravings in Men and Women” by Leah Kuntz
  • https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/mood-shifts-have-opposite-impact-on-alcohol-cravings-in-men-and-women

Manipulative Dogs

• “Our Dogs Do Manipulate Us, According to Science” by Ulrike Lemmin-Woolfrey
  • https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/our-dogs-do-manipulate-us-according-to-science
• “Dog Faces Are Faster than Wolf Faces” by Anne Burrows & Kailey Omstead.
  • https://www.eventscribe.net/2022/EB2022/fsPopup.asp?PresentationID=1027886&query=burrows&mode=presinfo

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