A Distant Galaxy Is Warping the Milky Way
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 964 Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2021
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Author Jen Sincero explains why it’s important to form and maintain habits. You’ll also learn about why phantom limb sensations are way more common than you think; and how the Large Magellanic Cloud, or LMC, is warping the Milky Way galaxy.
Additional resources from author Jen Sincero
- Pick up "Badass Habits: Cultivate the Awareness, Boundaries, and Daily Upgrades You Need to Make Them Stick" from Amazon: https://amzn.to/37l87kN
- Website: https://www.jensincero.com/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/jensincero
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jensincero/
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheJenSincero
Phantom Limb Sensations Are Way More Common Than You Think by Ashley Hamer
- Ramachandran, V. (1998). The perception of phantom limbs. The D. O. Hebb lecture. Brain, 121(9), 1603–1630. https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/121.9.1603
- Neurosci. (2016, March 11). Neuroscientifically Challenged. Neuroscientifically Challenged. https://www.neuroscientificallychallenged.com/blog/know-your-brain-primary-somatosensory-cortex
- Virtual reality eases phantom limb pain. (2017). ScienceDaily. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/05/170531102921.htm
- Kumar, Kv., Suresh, B., Misri, Z., Chakrapani, M., Mohan, U., & babu, Sk. (2013). Effectiveness of mirror therapy on lower extremity motor recovery, balance and mobility in patients with acute stroke: A randomized sham-controlled pilot trial. Annals of Indian Academy of Neurology, 16(4), 634. https://doi.org/10.4103/0972-2327.120496
- Cortical homunculus: A WHAT Lives Inside My Brain? (2009, March 18). NPR.org. https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=101960403
The Milky Way once collided with the Large Magellanic Cloud by Grant Currin
- Galaxy encounter violently disturbed Milky Way, study finds. (2020). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-11/uoe-gev112320.php
- Petersen, M. S., & Peñarrubia, J. (2020). Detection of the Milky Way reflex motion due to the Large Magellanic Cloud infall. Nature Astronomy. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-020-01254-3
- Ravilious, K. (2015). Earth was a frozen Snowball when animals first evolved. BBC.com. http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150112-did-snowball-earth-make-animals
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from |
| 0:04.9 | Curiosity.com. I'm Cody Gough. And I'm Ashley Hamer. Today you learn about why |
| 0:09.2 | habits are important with help from author Jen Cincerro. You'll also learn about why phantom limb |
| 0:14.6 | sensations are way more common than you think and a small galaxy that's |
| 0:18.8 | warping the Milky Way. Let's satisfy some curiosity. |
| 0:23.0 | We talk a lot about how to break and build habits on this podcast, but have you ever stopped |
| 0:28.0 | to wonder why habits are important in the first place? |
| 0:31.6 | Today's guest has the answer. |
| 0:33.6 | Jen Cincero is the author of the new book, Bad-ass Habits. |
| 0:37.0 | Cultivate the awareness, boundaries, and daily upgrades you need to make them stick. |
| 0:41.8 | Yesterday, she told us how important beliefs and |
| 0:44.4 | identity are to building new habits. Today we're zooming out and asking |
| 0:48.8 | why should we build habits anyway? You know it's really interesting being in this pandemic and discussing habits because what habits do is they allow our brains some freedom to focus on other things, right? |
| 1:03.0 | So remember how hard it was to tie your shoe |
| 1:05.0 | when you were a little kid because you were just learning |
| 1:06.5 | you had to be like the bunny ears and then you put one of the ears through |
| 1:09.5 | the, you know, you had to pay so much attention, right? |
| 1:11.5 | It was a big deal, and and everybody did a big cartwheel |
| 1:14.0 | every time you did it correctly. |
| 1:15.6 | But you had to focus on it, right? |
| 1:17.2 | But now you do it while you're talking on the phone, |
| 1:19.6 | while you're doing something else. |
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