Brain Game, Goal Paralysis, Salt Cycle
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 935 Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2024
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Today, you’ll learn about a new brain interface that allows people to play games with their minds, how bad luck might make you less committed to achieving greatness, and some alarming news about how the way humans use salt is not just bad for our bodies, but the planet as well.
Brain Game
- “New brain-computer interface allows people to play a game using their thoughts.” by Vladimir Hedrih. 2023.
- “Combining brain-computer interfaces and multiplayer video games: an application based on c-VEPs.” by Selene Moreno-Calderon, et al. 2023.
Goal Paralysis
- “Goal paralysis: How bad luck affects goal commitment.” by Cony M. Ho, et al. 2023.
- “Today Is Just Not My Day: Bad Luck’s Effect on Goal Pursuit.” by Cony M. Ho, et al. 2023.
Salt Cycle
- “Humans are disrupting natural ‘salt cycle’ on a global scale, new study shows.” EurekAlert! 2023.
- “Cary Institute Report on Sustainable Road Salt Use.” Cary Institute. 2019.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Discovery. |
| 0:09.0 | Time flies when you're learning super cool stuff. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm Nate. |
| 0:12.0 | And I'm Callie. If you're dropping in for the first time |
| 0:13.7 | welcome to curiosity where we am to blow your mind by helping you to grow your mind. |
| 0:17.3 | If you're a loyal listener, welcome back. Today you'll learn about a new brain |
| 0:20.8 | interface that allows people to play games with their minds, how bad luck |
| 0:25.1 | might make you less committed to achieving greatness, and some alarming news about how the way |
| 0:29.6 | humans use salt is not just bad for our bodies but the planet as well. |
| 0:33.7 | Without further ado, let's satisfy some curiosity. |
| 0:37.4 | Scientists in Spain have pitted 22 competitors against each other in a game they played |
| 0:42.2 | with their minds. |
| 0:44.0 | This sounds like a story about a brain computer interface. |
| 0:48.0 | Yeah, you are exactly right. |
| 0:50.0 | Okay. |
| 0:51.0 | So since AI and neural networks and deep learning have begun to get better and better we're seeing a lot more of these stories right? |
| 0:55.9 | So how does this one work is mesh implanted on the brain and connected to a powerful AI bought? |
| 1:02.2 | Well, not quite and that is one thing that makes this tech such a breakthrough. |
| 1:06.0 | Typically in order to translate our thoughts into actions, |
| 1:09.0 | researchers kind of need to go to the source. |
| 1:11.0 | Like you said, that usually means a direct connection to the |
| 1:14.2 | surface of the brain. But in this case, all it took was eight electrodes placed |
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