From the Archives: A Brain-Training Task to Reduce Motion Sickness

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🗓️ 24 March 2022

⏱️ 11 minutes

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This episode originally aired on 11/5/2020. New episodes coming soon.

Learn about a simple brain-training task that may reduce motion sickness, what parasites found in medieval human remains can tell us about eradicating them today, and the two main reasons why everything takes longer than you think it will.

A Simple Brain-Training Task May Reduce Motion Sickness by Kelsey Donk

You can train your brain to reduce motion sickness. (2020). Warwick.Ac.Uk. https://warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/pressreleases/you_can_train
Smyth, J., Jennings, P., Bennett, P., & Birrell, S. (2021). A novel method for reducing motion sickness susceptibility through training visuospatial ability – A two-part study. Applied Ergonomics, 90, 103264. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apergo.2020.103264

Parasitic Worms Found in Medieval Human Remains May Hold the Secret for Eradicating Them Today by Cameron Duke

Flammer, P. G., Ryan, H., Preston, S. G., Warren, S., Přichystalová, R., Weiss, R., Palmowski, V., Boschert, S., Fellgiebel, K., Jasch-Boley, I., Kairies, M.-S., Rümmele, E., Rieger, D., Schmid, B., Reeves, B., Nicholson, R., Loe, L., Guy, C., Waldron, T., … Smith, A. L. (2020). Epidemiological insights from a large-scale investigation of intestinal helminths in Medieval Europe. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 14(8), e0008600. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0008600
Parasitic worms found in medieval human remains hold secret for eradicating them today. (2020, September). Science | AAAS. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/09/parasitic-worms-found-medieval-human-remains-hold-secret-eradicating-them-today
Intestinal worms. (2016). World Health Organization. https://www.who.int/intestinal_worms/more/en/

The 2 Main Reasons Why Everything Takes Longer Than You Think It Will by Anna Todd

Original episode: https://www.curiositydaily.com/why-everything-takes-longer-than-you-think-storm-p/

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Janice from Discovery. This is one of our favorite episodes of Curiosity Daily from 2020.
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0:13.0	Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Curiosity.
0:18.0	Curiosity.com.
0:19.0	I'm Ashley Hamer.
0:20.0	And I'm Natalia Reagan.
0:21.0	Today you learn about a simple brain training task that may reduce motion sickness,
0:26.0	what parasites found in medieval human remains can tell us about eradicating them today,
0:31.0	and the two main reasons why everything takes longer than you think it will.
0:35.2	Let's satisfy some curiosity. Everyone gets motion sickness from time to time.
0:42.2	For most of us, it's manageable.
0:44.0	We look out the window, breathe some fresh air,
0:46.0	or maybe even take medication.
0:48.0	But as self-driving cars get closer to reality,
0:51.0	researchers think motion sickness will become a much bigger problem.
0:55.6	But luckily, there may be a fix.
0:57.8	A new study suggests that for most people, a simple brain training task could reduce motion sickness.
1:04.0	The trick centers on something called visual spatial training.
1:08.0	Visual skills refer to a person's ability to understand spatial relationships between objects.
1:14.4	They're the skills you rely on when you catch a ball or put a puzzle together.
1:18.8	Past research has shown that people who play video games or use driving
1:23.3	simulators tend to have better visual spatial skills. Video games
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