Field Trip: An Airport Full of Neuroscientists

Ologies with Alie Ward

Alie Ward

Comedy, Science, Society & Culture

4.9 • 23.8K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

I’m at the airport and there are hundreds of brain scientists everywhere. So I swallowed my dignity/anxiety and approached strangers about the neuroscience they do. The result is a bushel of info on cravings, sleep, consciousness, addiction, dopamine, monogamy, Ozempic, toxins in your brain and so much more with: Georgia Kirkpatrick, Isabella Montana, Pique Cho, Dr. Marissa Co, Chancey Garrett, Noah Millman, Pique Choi, Dr. Barbara Sorg and Elizabeth Plunk. Oops, we just made a bunch of new friends. All thanks to poster tubes, a.k.a: nerdurdurs. A donation went to the Society for Neuroscience at SFN.org More episode sources and links Other episodes you may enjoy: Attention-Deficit Neuropsychology (ADHD), Environmental Toxicology (POISONS + TRAIN DERAILMENT), Urban Rodentology (SEWER RATS), Chronobiology (CIRCADIAN RHYTHMS), Somnology (SLEEP), Traumatology (PTSD), Addictionology (ADDICTION), Oneirology (DREAMS), Personality Psychology (PERSONALITIES), Discard Anthropology (GARBAGE), Conservation Technology (EARTH SAVING), Forensic Ecology (NATURE DETECTIVE), Oceanology (OCEANS), Environmental Microbiology (TESTING WASTEWATER) Sponsors of Ologies Transcripts and bleeped episodes Smologies (short, classroom-safe) episodes Become a patron of Ologies for as little as a buck a month OlogiesMerch.com has hats, shirts, masks, totes! Follow @Ologies on Twitter and Instagram Follow @AlieWard on Twitter and Instagram Editing by Mercedes Maitland of Maitland Audio Productions and Jarrett Sleeper of MindJam Media Transcripts by Emily White of The Wordary Website by Kelly R. Dwyer Theme song by Nick Thorburn

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0:00.0	Oh, hi, it's that lady with a microphone walking around your airport terminal.
0:04.8	Quite literally.
0:05.8	I'm Ali Ward.
0:06.8	This is Aalogies.
0:07.8	This is a weird one, and I love it.
0:09.8	So if this is your first ever episode of Aalogies, please know this one breaks the format
0:13.7	quite a bit.
0:14.7	Instead of me hunting down some perfectologist for some niche topic for a one-on-one interview
0:19.5	in a studio, I recorded half this episode while I was waiting for a flight from San Diego
0:24.3	to Portland for my other job.
0:26.2	I'm a science correspondent for the CBS show called Innovation Nation.
0:29.5	So I get to the airport.
0:31.4	I see a lot of passengers at TSA and their gates, and they're holding these long cardboard
0:35.6	tubes.
0:37.8	And I stopped one of them, and I asked if they were all going to like an architecture
0:42.0	convention, or if they were comic book artists, and she told me there was a neuroscience
0:46.9	convention in town.
0:49.0	And everyone carrying a cardboard tube was a neuroscientist headed home carrying their
0:55.8	large rolled up research poster that they just presented.
0:59.2	Well there's hundreds of neuroscientists everywhere I looked.
1:02.6	It was like spring break, but for nerds, and I loved it.
1:06.1	People who study food cravings and addiction and dopamine and motivation and consciousness,
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