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How Feeling Sick Is Colored by Culture, The Venomous Dinosaur from Jurassic Park IRL, and All the Light Ever Produced in the Universe Aug 05, 2020

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Learn about how culture plays a role in feeling sick; that time scientists measured all the light in the known universe; and what Jurassic Park got wrong about the Dilophosaurus, that venomous dinosaur with the frilly collar.

Culture plays a role in feeling sick by Kelsey Donk

Researchers study role culture plays in feeling sick. (2020). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-03/uota-rsr022720.php
Shattuck, E. C., Perrotte, J. K., Daniels, C. L., Xu, X., & Sunil, T. S. (2020). The Contribution of Sociocultural Factors in Shaping Self-Reported Sickness Behavior. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 14. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2020.00004

Scientists Measured All the Light Ever Produced in the Universe by Ashley Hamer

The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. (2020). Nasa.gov. https://fermi.gsfc.nasa.gov/
A gamma-ray determination of the Universe’s star formation history. (2018). Science, 362(6418), 1031–1034. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aat8123
Clemson scientists measure all of the starlight ever produced by the observable universe. (2018). Newsstand | Clemson University News and Stories, South Carolina. https://newsstand.clemson.edu/mediarelations/clemson-scientists-measure-all-of-the-starlight-ever-produced-by-the-observable-universe/
The Extragalactic Background Light. (2020). Cta-Observatory.org. https://portal.cta-observatory.org/Pages/The-Extragalactic-Background-Light.aspx
Koren, M. (2018, November 30). How Scientists Measured All the Starlight in the Universe. The Atlantic; The Atlantic. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/11/starlight-universe-blazar-galaxy/576934/

Remember the venomous dino with the frilly collar from Jurassic Park? Here's what it was really like by Grant Currin

Stan Winston School of Character Arts. (2020). Stanwinstonschool.com. https://www.stanwinstonschool.com/blog/jurassic-park-dilophosaurus-dinosaur-puppet
Famous “Jurassic Park” dinosaur is less lizard, more bird. (2020). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-07/uota-fp070720.php
Marsh, A. D., & Rowe, T. B. (2020). A comprehensive anatomical and phylogenetic evaluation of Dilophosaurus wetherilli (Dinosauria, Theropoda) with descriptions of new specimens from the Kayenta Formation of northern Arizona. Journal of Paleontology, 94(S78), 1–103. https://doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2020.14

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You Have Tiny Rocks in Your Ears, How Artists’ Personas Influence Your Music Choices, and Chemotherapy Began as a Chemical Weapon Aug 04, 2020

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Learn about why you have tiny rocks in your ears; why the self-congruity effect of music says you may prefer music by artists who have a similar personality to you; and how chemotherapy began as a chemical weapon.

There are tiny rocks in your ears that help you detect motion by Cameron Duke

Inner Ear “Rock Slides” Lead To Vertigo. (n.d.). NPR.org. https://www.npr.org/2009/04/27/103463398/inner-ear-rock-slides-lead-to-vertigo
Widmaier, E. P., Vander, A. J., Raff, H., & Strang, K. T. (2019). Vander’s human physiology : the mechanisms of body function. Mcgraw-Hill Education.
Purves, D., Augustine, G. J., Fitzpatrick, D., Katz, L. C., Anthony-Samuel LaMantia, McNamara, J. O., & S Mark Williams. (2014). The Otolith Organs: The Utricle and Sacculus. Nih.Gov; Sinauer Associates. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK10792/
Human ear - Inner ear | Britannica. (2020). In Encyclopædia Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/science/ear/Inner-ear#ref65037

You may prefer music by musicians who have a similar personality to you by Kelsey Donk

Fans love musicians’ personalities as much as their music. (2020). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-07/bu-flm070120.php
Greenberg, D. M., Matz, S. C., Schwartz, H. A., & Fricke, K. R. (2020). The self-congruity effect of music. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000293
Joseph, Barclay, A. C., & Bockorny, K. M. (2014). Self-Congruity: A Determinant of Brand Personality. https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Self-Congruity%3A-A-Determinant-of-Brand-Personality-Klipfel-Barclay/02b9cbd55f0fef7fd688c35a801a338bca1a6ee2

Chemotherapy began as a chemical weapon by Cameron Duke

Evolution of Cancer Treatments: Chemotherapy | American Cancer Society. (2014). Cancer.org. https://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancer-basics/history-of-cancer/cancer-treatment-chemo.html
Frunzi, J. (February 2007). From Weapon to Wonder Drug. The Hospitalist. https://www.the-hospitalist.org/hospitalist/article/123282/weapon-wonder-drug
Goldacre, R. J., Loveless, A., & Ross, W. C. J. (1949). Mode of Production of Chromosome Abnormalities by the Nitrogen Mustards The Possible Role of Cross-Linking. Nature, 163(4148), 667–669. https://doi.org/10.1038/163667a0
Hazell, S. (2014). Mustard gas – from the Great War to frontline chemotherapy. Cancer Research UK - Science Blog. https://scienceblog.cancerresearchuk.org/2014/08/27/mustard-gas-from-the-great-war-to-frontline-chemotherapy/
Immunotherapy for Cancer. (2019, September 24). National Cancer Institute; Cancer.gov. https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/treatment/types/immunotherapy
Krumbhaar, E. B., & Krumbhaar, H. D. (1919). The Blood and Bone Marrow in Yelloe Cross Gas (Mustard Gas) Poisoning. The Journal of Medical Research, 40(3), 497–508.3. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2104437/
Mukherjee, S. (2011). The emperor of all maladies : a biography of cancer. Fourth Estate.
Smith, J. (2016, January 14). The Grim and Marvelous Story of Chemotherapy. Proto Magazine. http://protomag.com/articles/the-grim-and-marvelous-story-of-chemotherapy
Smith, S. L. (2017). War! What is it good for? Mustard gas medicine. Canadian Medical Association Journal, 189(8), E321–E322. https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.161032
Wilke, C. (2019, April). From Chemical Weapon to Chemotherapy, 1917–1946. The Scientist Magazine. https://www.the-scientist.com/foundations/from-chemical-weapon-to-chemotherapy--19171946-65655

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Why Some Words Are More Memorable, How Hair Growth Works, and How Fish End Up in Landlocked Lakes Aug 03, 2020

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Learn about why some words are more memorable than others; how hair growth works; and how fish end up in landlocked lakes.

Brain study reveals why some words are more memorable than others by Kelsey Donk

NIH study finds out why some words may be more memorable than others. (2020). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-06/nion-nsf062620.php
Xie, W., Bainbridge, W. A., Inati, S. K., Baker, C. I., & Zaghloul, K. A. (2020). Memorability of words in arbitrary verbal associations modulates memory retrieval in the anterior temporal lobe. Nature Human Behaviour. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-020-0901-2

Hair growth, explained by Steffie Drucker

Hair Loss: The Science of Hair. (2010, March 1). WebMD. https://www.webmd.com/skin-problems-and-treatments/hair-loss/science-hair#1
Venton, D. (2015, April 21). The Big Question: Why Does Hair Grow in Some Places But Not Others? WIRED. https://www.wired.com/2015/04/hair-only-in-some-places/
Feltman, R. (2016, July 19). Dear Science: Why does the hair on my head grow longer than the hair on my body? The Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2016/07/19/dear-science-why-does-the-hair-on-my-head-grow-longer-than-the-hair-on-my-body/?arc404=true
Curiosity. (2018). How Does Hair Growth Work? [YouTube Video]. In YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBhmxVeJZ-I
SciShow. (2015). How Does Hair Know When to Stop Growing? [YouTube Video]. In YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rf6BnOLb5xs
Martin, R. D. (2016) Beauty and the Beard. Psychology Today. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/how-we-do-it/201802/beauty-and-the-beard

Fish eggs migrate to landlocked lakes via bird poop by Grant Currin

Koumoundouros, T. (2020). We May Finally Know The Extreme Route Fish Take Through Air to Colonise New Lakes. ScienceAlert. https://www.sciencealert.com/squishy-fish-eggs-can-survive-harrowing-journeys-through-duck-guts
Lovas-Kiss, Á., Vincze, O., Löki, V., Pallér-Kapusi, F., Halasi-Kovács, B., Kovács, G., Green, A. J., & Lukács, B. A. (2020). Experimental evidence of dispersal of invasive cyprinid eggs inside migratory waterfowl. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(27), 15397–15399. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2004805117
Silva, G. G., Weber, V., Green, A. J., Hoffmann, P., Silva, V. S., Volcan, M. V., Lanés, L. E. K., Stenert, C., Reichard, M., & Maltchik, L. (2019). Killifish eggs can disperse via gut passage through waterfowl. Ecology, 100(11). https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.2774
Dispersal of fish eggs by water birds – just a myth? (2018). ScienceDaily. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/02/180219103258.htm
[Curiosity Daily Episode] Remembering Words on the Tip of Your Tongue, Parkways vs. Driveways, and A Flapping Spacecraft to Explore Venus https://curiositydaily.com/remembering-words-on-the-tip-of-your-tongue-parkways-vs-driveways-and-a-flapping-spacecraft-to-explore-venus/

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Advertising Makes Us Unhappy, The Myth of Maximum Heart Rate, and How Parents Can Help Language Researchers with an App Jul 31, 2020

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Learn about why more advertising means less happiness; how to calculate your maximum heart rate; and how parents and kids can help language researchers during the pandemic, with help from an app called KidTalk.

The more ads we see, the less happy we are by Kelsey Donk

Advertising Makes Us Unhappy. (2019, December 31). Harvard Business Review. https://hbr.org/2020/01/advertising-makes-us-unhappy
Advertising as a major source of human dissatisfaction | VOX, CEPR Policy Portal. (2019). Voxeu.org. https://voxeu.org/article/advertising-major-source-human-dissatisfaction
Michel, C., Sovinsky, M., Proto, E., & Oswald, A. J. (2019). Advertising as a Major Source of Human Dissatisfaction: Cross-National Evidence on One Million Europeans. The Economics of Happiness, 217–239. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15835-4_10

Max heart rate? by Ashley Hamer (Listener question from Julien)

All About Heart Rate (Pulse). (2015). www.Heart.org. https://www.heart.org/en/health-topics/high-blood-pressure/the-facts-about-high-blood-pressure/all-about-heart-rate-pulse
Quer, G., Gouda, P., Galarnyk, M., Topol, E. J., & Steinhubl, S. R. (2020). Inter- and intraindividual variability in daily resting heart rate and its associations with age, sex, sleep, BMI, and time of year: Retrospective, longitudinal cohort study of 92,457 adults. PLOS ONE, 15(2), e0227709. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0227709
Can you sing while you work out? (2019). Mayo Clinic. https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/fitness/in-depth/exercise-intensity/art-20046887
“Maximum” Heart Rate Theory Is Challenged. (2001, April 23). The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/24/health/maximum-heart-rate-theory-is-challenged.html

KidTalk lets parents create audio scrapbooks while helping language research by Steffie Drucker

Home | KidTalk. (2020). KidTalk. https://www.kidtalkscrapbook.org/
Kidtalkscrapbook. (2020, June 30). Say What? - Kidtalkscrapbook. Medium. https://medium.com/@kidtalkscrapbook/say-what-7dceb4761c01
Follow Emily Calandrelli @thespacegal on TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@thespacegal?lang=en
Follow @TheSpaceGal on Twitter https://twitter.com/thespacegal

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Why New Habits Have to Be Tiny (w/ Dr. BJ Fogg) and Why Human Infants Are Late Bloomers Jul 30, 2020

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Stanford behavior scientist Dr. BJ Fogg, author of “Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything,” explains why the best new habits are tiny ones. Then, learn why human infants are late bloomers compared to other baby animals.

More from Dr. BJ Fogg, Stanford behavior scientist:

Pick up “Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything” on Amazon https://amazon.com
Official website https://www.bjfogg.com/
Behavior Design Lab at Stanford University https://habits.stanford.edu/
Follow @bjfogg on Twitter https://twitter.com/bjfogg
Hear us discuss the Fogg Method on a previous episode of Curiosity Daily: https://curiositydaily.com/is-bee-venom-therapy-safe-plus-teeth-cleaning-history-and-how-to-change-bad-habits/

Babies are all born prematurely - Compared to Other Baby Animals, Human Infants Are Late Bloomers by Ashley Hamer

Dunsworth, H. M., Warrener, A. G., Deacon, T., Ellison, P. T., & Pontzer, H. (2012). Metabolic hypothesis for human altriciality. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109(38), 15212–15216. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1205282109
Warrener, A. G., Lewton, K. L., Pontzer, H., & Lieberman, D. E. (2015). A Wider Pelvis Does Not Increase Locomotor Cost in Humans, with Implications for the Evolution of Childbirth. PLOS ONE, 10(3), e0118903. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0118903
Pappas, S. (2012, August 27). Why Pregnancy Really Lasts 9 Months. Livescience.com; Live Science. https://www.livescience.com/22715-pregnancy-length-baby-size.html

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A New Way to Build Habits (w/ Dr. BJ Fogg) and the Best Time of Day to Exercise Jul 29, 2020

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Stanford behavior scientist Dr. BJ Fogg explains new research into how you can pick new habits you’ll actually stick with. Then, you’ll learn about the best time of day to exercise.

More from Dr. BJ Fogg, Stanford behavior scientist:

Pick up “Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything” on Amazon https://amazon.com
Official website https://www.bjfogg.com/
Behavior Design Lab at Stanford University https://habits.stanford.edu/
Follow @bjfogg on Twitter https://twitter.com/bjfogg
Hear us discuss the Fogg Method on a previous episode of Curiosity Daily: https://curiositydaily.com/is-bee-venom-therapy-safe-plus-teeth-cleaning-history-and-how-to-change-bad-habits/

When's the Best Time of Day to Exercise? by Ashley Hamer

Borreli, L. (2015, September 10). This Is The Best Time To Work Out, Based On Your Fitness Goals. Medical Daily. https://www.medicaldaily.com/time-day-and-fitness-goals-why-working-out-morning-best-stress-not-muscle-size-351936
Van Proeyen, K., Szlufcik, K., Nielens, H., Pelgrim, K., Deldicque, L., Hesselink, M., Van Veldhoven, P. P., & Hespel, P. (2010). Training in the fasted state improves glucose tolerance during fat-rich diet. The Journal of Physiology, 588(21), 4289–4302. https://doi.org/10.1113/jphysiol.2010.196493
Schoenfeld, B. J., Aragon, A. A., Wilborn, C. D., Krieger, J. W., & Sonmez, G. T. (2014). Body composition changes associated with fasted versus non-fasted aerobic exercise. Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition, 11(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12970-014-0054-7
Myllymäki, T., Kyröläinen, H., Savolainen, K., Hokka, L., Jakonen, R., Juuti, T., Martinmäki, K., Kaartinen, J., Kinnunen, M.-L., & Rusko, H. (2011). Effects of vigorous late-night exercise on sleep quality and cardiac autonomic activity. Journal of Sleep Research, 20(1pt2), 146–153. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2869.2010.00874.x
Morgan, C. (2020, April 11). When’s the Best Time to Work Out? Greatist; Greatist. https://greatist.com/fitness/whats-best-time-work-out
Hayes, L. D., Bickerstaff, G. F., & Baker, J. S. (2010). Interactions of cortisol, testosterone, and resistance training: influence of circadian rhythms. Chronobiology International, 27(4), 675–705. https://doi.org/10.3109/07420521003778773
Fries, E., Dettenborn, L., & Kirschbaum, C. (2009). The cortisol awakening response (CAR): Facts and future directions. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 72(1), 67–73. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2008.03.014
Lericollais, R., Gauthier, A., Bessot, N., Sesboüé, B., & Davenne, D. (2009). Time-of-day effects on fatigue during a sustained anaerobic test in well-trained cyclists. Chronobiology International, 26(8), 1622–1635. https://doi.org/10.3109/07420520903534492

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Why Stress Sweat Smells Worse, Studying Wildlife During the Pandemic, and Do Men Just Not See Messes? Jul 28, 2020

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Learn about how scientists and animals are benefitting from the “anthropause” during the coronavirus pandemic; why sweat from stress smells worse than regular sweat; and whether men really “see less mess” than women.

We're in the "anthropause," a unique opportunity to study wildlife by Steffie Drucker

McGreevy, N. (2020, July). Scientists Propose a New Name for Nature in the Time of COVID-19: The “Anthropause.” Smithsonian Magazine; Smithsonian Magazine. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/scientists-have-name-nature-time-covid-19-anthropause-180975224/
Simon, M. (2020, June 29). The Anthropause: How the Pandemic Gives Scientists a New Way to Study Wildlife. Wired; WIRED. https://www.wired.com/story/the-anthropause-a-new-way-to-study-wildlife/
Rutz, C., Loretto, M.-C., Bates, A. E., Davidson, S. C., Duarte, C. M., Jetz, W., Johnson, M., Kato, A., Kays, R., Mueller, T., Primack, R. B., Ropert-Coudert, Y., Tucker, M. A., Wikelski, M., & Cagnacci, F. (2020). COVID-19 lockdown allows researchers to quantify the effects of human activity on wildlife. Nature Ecology & Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-020-1237-z
Goldfarb, B. (2020, July 6). There Really Was Less Roadkill This Spring. The Atlantic; The Atlantic. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/07/pandemic-roadkill/613852/

Why stress sweat smells worse than regular sweat by Andrea Michelson

Santos-Longhurst, A. (2019, February 26). Stress Sweat Is Real, Here’s How to Manage It. Healthline; Healthline Media. https://www.healthline.com/health/stress-sweat
Hrustic, A. (2017, April 4). Why Your Sweat Smells So Bad When You’re Stressed. Men’s Health; Men’s Health. https://www.menshealth.com/health/a19544884/why-stress-sweat-smells-so-bad/
Hu, Y., Converse, C., Lyons, M. C., & Hsu, W. H. (2018). Neural control of sweat secretion: a review. British Journal of Dermatology, 178(6), 1246–1256. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjd.15808
Fox-Skelly, J. (2015). The smelliest animals in the world. BBC.com. http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150610-why-its-good-to-smell-bad

Some Say Men Just Don't See Mess, So Researchers Put It to the Test by author

Ruppanner, L., Sabino Kornrich, & Thebaud, S. (2019, July 2). Men do see the mess – they just aren’t judged for it the way women are. The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/men-do-see-the-mess-they-just-arent-judged-for-it-the-way-women-are-118728
Thébaud, S., Kornrich, S., & Ruppanner, L. (2019). Good Housekeeping, Great Expectations: Gender and Housework Norms. Sociological Methods & Research, 004912411985239. https://doi.org/10.1177/0049124119852395

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You Navigate with Your Nose, Busting 5 Summer Myths, and Using Horseshoe Crabs’ Blue Blood to Develop New Medicine Jul 27, 2020

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Learn about how humans literally use their noses to navigate; why the blue blood of horseshoe crabs is essential for developing drugs like a COVID-19 vaccine; and the truth behind 5 myths about summer dangers.

Humans use their noses to navigate, and both nostrils are important by Grant Currin

Humans navigate with stereo olfaction. (2020). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-06/caos-hnw062420.php
Wu, Y., Chen, K., Ye, Y., Zhang, T., & Zhou, W. (2020). Humans navigate with stereo olfaction. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2004642117
Video used in the experiment: http://movie-usa.glencoesoftware.com/video/10.1073/pnas.2004642117/video-1

Why the blue blood of horseshoe crabs is essential for drug development by Cameron Duke

Fox, A. (2020, June 8). The Race for a Coronavirus Vaccine Runs on Horseshoe Crab Blood. Smithsonian Magazine; Smithsonian Magazine. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/race-coronavirus-vaccine-runs-horseshoe-crab-blood-180975048/
Krisfalusi-Gannon, J., Ali, W., Dellinger, K., Robertson, L., Brady, T. E., Goddard, M. K. M., Tinker-Kulberg, R., Kepley, C. L., & Dellinger, A. L. (2018). The Role of Horseshoe Crabs in the Biomedical Industry and Recent Trends Impacting Species Sustainability. Frontiers in Marine Science, 5. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2018.00185
Frank, J., & Tang, A. (2018, September 12). Why horseshoe crab blood is so expensive - Business Insider. Business Insider; Business Insider. https://www.businessinsider.com/why-horseshoe-crab-blood-expensive-2018-8
Zhang, S. (2018, May 9). The Last Days of the Blue-Blood Harvest. The Atlantic. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/05/blood-in-the-water/559229/

5 Myths About Summer Dangers by Ashley Hamer

The Claim: Mayonnaise Can Increase Risk of Food Poisoning. (2008, June 30). The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/01/health/01real.html?_r=0
Sting, B. (2020). 3 Steps to Take Immediately After a Bee Sting - Merck Manuals Consumer Version. Merck Manuals Consumer Version. https://www.merckmanuals.com/home/news/editorial/2018/05/15/14/05/bee-stings
10 Ways to Lower the Cancer Risk of Grilling. (2019, June 27). The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/27/well/eat/10-ways-to-lower-the-cancer-risk-of-grilling.html
Confused by SPF? Take a Number. (2009, May 13). The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/14/fashion/14SKIN.html?pagewanted=all
Rodriguez, S. D., Chung, H.-N., Gonzales, K. K., Vulcan, J., Li, Y., Ahumada, J. A., Romero, H. M., De La Torre, M., Shu, F., & Hansen, I. A. (2017). Efficacy of Some Wearable Devices Compared with Spray-On Insect Repellents for the Yellow Fever Mosquito, Aedes aegypti (L.) (Diptera: Culicidae). Journal of Insect Science, 17(1). https://doi.org/10.1093/jisesa/iew117

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Fannie Farmer Created the Modern Cooking Recipe, the Shepard Scale Audio Illusion, and How Scientists Test the COVID-19 Vaccine Jul 24, 2020

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Learn how researchers test drugs for deadly diseases like COVID-19 (without exposing participants); how Fannie Farmer transformed cooking from folk art into science; and how the Shepard scale audio illusion makes it sound like a tone is rising forever.

Safety in drug trials by Ashley Hamer (Listener question from Habib)

Q/A: How clinical trials test vaccines - News Story | VCU Health. (2020). Vcuhealth.org. https://www.vcuhealth.org/news-center/news-story?news=1654
Office of the Commissioner. (2019). Step 3: Clinical Research. U.S. Food and Drug Administration. https://www.fda.gov/patients/drug-development-process/step-3-clinical-research
Researchers Debate Infecting People on Purpose to Test Coronavirus Vaccines. (2020, July 1). The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/01/health/coronavirus-vaccine-trials.html
Cohen, J. (2020, March 31). Speed coronavirus vaccine testing by deliberately infecting volunteers? Not so fast, some scientists warn. Science | AAAS. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/03/speed-coronavirus-vaccine-testing-deliberately-infecting-volunteers-not-so-fast-some
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How Fannie Farmer transformed cooking from folk art into science by Cameron Duke

Lewis, J. J. (2017). About Fannie Farmer, Cookbook Author and Domestic Scientist. ThoughtCo. https://www.thoughtco.com/fannie-farmer-biography-3528712
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The Shepard scale is an audio illusion that sounds like a tone is rising forever by Ashley Hamer

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Why Some People Can’t Recognize Faces, Weight-Lifting Strengthens Your Nerves Too, and Why Earth’s Core Doesn’t Melt Jul 23, 2020

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Learn about why you might feel stronger after just one workout; why the Earth’s core doesn’t melt, even though it’s so hot; and prosopagnosia, the surprising neurological condition of face blindness.

Feeling stronger after one workout? It's not your muscles, it's your nervous system by Grant Currin

Essentials of Strength Training and Conditioning. (2016). United Kingdom: Human Kinetics. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Essentials_of_Strength_Training_and_Cond/bfuXCgAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%3E16%20workouts
How We Get Stronger. (2020, July 1). The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/01/well/move/how-we-get-stronger.html
Glover, I. S., & Baker, S. N. (2020). Cortical, corticospinal and reticulospinal contributions to strength training. The Journal of Neuroscience, JN-RM-1923-19. https://doi.org/10.1523/jneurosci.1923-19.2020
Why strength depends on more than muscle: Neural adaptations could account for differing strength gains despite similar muscle mass. (2017). ScienceDaily. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/07/170710091652.htm
Jenkins, N. D. M., Miramonti, A. A., Hill, E. C., Smith, C. M., Cochrane-Snyman, K. C., Housh, T. J., & Cramer, J. T. (2017). Greater Neural Adaptations following High- vs. Low-Load Resistance Training. Frontiers in Physiology, 8. https://doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2017.00331

If The Earth's Core Is So Hot, Why Doesn't It Melt? by Ashley Hamer

New theory explains how Earth’s inner core remains solid despite extreme heat | KTH. (2017). KTH. https://www.kth.se/en/aktuellt/nyheter/new-theory-explains-how-earth-s-inner-core-remains-solid-despite-extreme-heat-1.705398
Hexagonal Close Packing. (2020). Wolfram.com; Wolfram Research, Inc. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/HexagonalClosePacking.html
Belonoshko, A. B., Lukinov, T., Fu, J., Zhao, J., Davis, S., & Simak, S. I. (2017). Stabilization of body-centred cubic iron under inner-core conditions. Nature Geoscience, 10(4), 312–316. https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2892

What do you do when you can’t recognize faces? by Cameron Duke

Bate, S. (2019, December 26). New Promise for Those Who Suffer from Face Blindness. Scientific American. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-promise-for-those-who-suffer-from-face-blindness/
Damasio, A. R., Damasio, H., & Van Hoesen, G. W. (1982). Prosopagnosia: Anatomic basis and behavioral mechanisms. Neurology, 32(4), 331–331. https://doi.org/10.1212/wnl.32.4.331
Dingfelder, S. (2019, August 21). My life with face blindness: I spent decades unable to recognize people. Then I learned why. The Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/magazine/wp/2019/08/21/feature/my-life-with-face-blindness/
Kennerknecht, I., Grueter, T., Welling, B., Wentzek, S., Horst, J., Edwards, S., & Grueter, M. (2006). First report of prevalence of non-syndromic hereditary prosopagnosia (HPA). American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A, 140A(15), 1617–1622. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajmg.a.31343
Psychology Experiments: Cambridge Face Memory Test. (2020). BBK.ac.uk. http://www.bbk.ac.uk/psychology/psychologyexperiments/experiments/facememorytest/startup.php?r=8&p=0&d=1&dn=0&g=0&m=68f7d848edeaebd6cc29371b806b3017
Sacks, O. (2010, August 23). Face-Blind. The New Yorker; The New Yorker. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/08/30/face-blind
Samuelson, K. (2017, July 14). Why You Can’t Recognize Other People’s Faces. Time. https://time.com/4838661/prosopagnosia-face-blindness/
Understanding Prosopagnosia - Faceblind. (2015). Faceblind.org. https://www.faceblind.org/research/

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