Future GMO Foods, The Thought Gap, How Your Brain Knows You’re Uncomfortable

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🗓️ 17 December 2021

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Learn about why researchers are developing new GMO foods like golden rice; why you underestimate how often others are thinking about you; and how your brain knows when you’re uncomfortable and you need to change your position.

FDA's Feed Your Mind website: https://www.fda.gov/food/consumers/agricultural-biotechnology

You regularly underestimate how often someone else is thinking about you by Steffie Drucker

Liking gap episode: https://www.curiositydaily.com/road-to-the-8-hour-workday-the-liking-gap-shocking-tomatoes/
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Cuncic, A. (2012). Spotlight Effect: Not Everyone is Looking at You. Verywell Mind. https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-the-spotlight-effect-3024470

How the brain tells us to change position by Ashley Hamer (Listener question from Constanza in Mexico City)

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0:00.0	Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Discovery.
0:06.0	I'm Cody Gough.
0:07.0	And I'm Ashley Hamer.
0:08.0	Today you learn about exciting new GMO foods that are currently in development,
0:12.0	with help from Dr. Patrick Cornwier and why you
0:15.2	regularly underestimate how often others are thinking about you. We'll also answer a listener
0:19.7	question about how your brain knows when you're uncomfortable and you need to change your position.
0:24.4	Let's satisfy some curiosity.
0:26.4	Yesterday we featured a guest who gave you a pretty comprehensive primer on the science of
0:32.3	GMOs and today he's going to tell us about
0:34.8	a few GMOs coming down the pipeline that are worth getting excited about. Dr. Patrick
0:39.9	Cornwai is a regulatory scientist at the FDA who works to ensure the safety of food from genetically
0:45.3	modified plants. We asked him which GMOs were in development that he was the most excited
0:50.5	about. Let's see, you know, some of them are just fun like the Pink Pineapple. I ordered that
0:56.4	online and shared it with some friends which is cool to see you know so that type of
1:01.0	thing is not going to change the world, but it's just fun.
1:04.8	What I think is exciting is golden rice, so that's rice that's been fortified with pro-Vitamin A.
1:11.2	And the goal is to reduce vitamin A deficiency,
1:14.0	which is a really big problem in a lot of parts of the world,
1:17.0	and it leads to blindness in children.
1:19.0	And so the idea is it's been a challenge for decades
1:22.0	to alleviate this problem, and it tends to occur in places where people eat rice as their staple which doesn't have any vitamin A in it.
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