Gut Neurons Influence Brain Neurons, Why We Still Use the QWERTY Keyboard, and Why You “Shoot the Messenger”

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Self-improvement, Science, Astronomy, Education

4.6 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2020

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Learn about why people can’t help but “shoot the messenger;” how neurons in your gut influence neurons in your brain thanks to the gut-brain axis; and why we still use the QWERTY keyboard, along with information on Dvorak and Colemak layouts.

People can't help but "shoot the messenger" by Kelsey Donk

We Really Do Shoot the Messengers of Bad News, Research Suggests. (2019, April 16). Harvard Business Review. https://hbr.org/2019/04/research-confirms-when-receiving-bad-news-we-shoot-the-messenger
John, L. K., Blunden, H., & Liu, H. (2019). Shooting the messenger. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 148(4), 644–666. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0000586

Neurons in your gut influence neurons in your brain by Andrea Michelson

Gut communicates with the entire brain through cross-talking neurons. (2020). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-04/uoic-gcw040220.php
Parker, C. G., Dailey, M. J., Phillips, H., & Davis, E. A. (2020). Central sensory-motor crosstalk in the neural gut-brain axis. Autonomic Neuroscience, 225, 102656. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.autneu.2020.102656
The Brain-Gut Connection. (2020). https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/wellness-and-prevention/the-brain-gut-connection
Mittal, R., Debs, L. H., Patel, A. P., Nguyen, D., Patel, K., O’Connor, G., Grati, M., Mittal, J., Yan, D., Eshraghi, A. A., Deo, S. K., Daunert, S., & Liu, X. Z. (2017). Neurotransmitters: The Critical Modulators Regulating Gut-Brain Axis. Journal of Cellular Physiology, 232(9), 2359–2372. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcp.25518
Hadhazy, A. (2010, February 12). Think Twice: How the Gut’s “Second Brain” Influences Mood and Well-Being. Scientific American. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/gut-second-brain/

Here's Why We Still Use the QWERTY Keyboard by Trevor English

Liebowitz, S. J., & Margolis, S. (1996, June). Typing Errors. Reason.com; Reason. https://reason.com/1996/06/01/typing-errors/
Yasuoka, K., & Yasuoka, M. (2011). On the Prehistory of QWERTY. ZINBUN, 42, 161–174. https://doi.org/0084-5515
Hoffman, C. (2014, May 18). Alternative Keyboard Layouts Explained: Should You Switch to Dvorak or Colemak? How-To Geek; How-To Geek. https://www.howtogeek.com/189270/alternative-keyboard-layouts-explained-dvorak-colemak-and-whether-you-should-care/

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0:00.0	Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Curiosity.com.
0:06.0	I'm Cody Goff.
0:07.0	And I'm Ashley Hamer.
0:08.0	Today you learn about why people can't help but shoot the messenger,
0:12.0	how neurons in your gut influence neurons in your brain, and why we still
0:16.1	use the Quirti keyboard. But satisfy some curiosity. When you're delivering bad news but you don't
0:22.0	want people to get mad at you for it,
0:24.2	you probably say, hey, don't shoot the messenger.
0:27.6	After all, you didn't create the bad news, you're just delivering it.
0:32.1	Well, good luck with that that because according to research we all
0:35.6	shoot the messenger and we know this because of a study published last year in the
0:40.4	Journal of Experimental Psychology.
0:43.0	Harvard researchers conducted 11 experiments looking at a wide variety of situations
0:48.0	and they found that across the board people tend to dislike people who give them bad news.
0:54.3	In fact, the researchers say there's a sort of double whammy
0:57.6	that happens for those who have to deliver
0:59.8	or receive bad news.
1:02.1	And that's all of us at some point. First of all, people who have
1:06.0	the unfortunate task of breaking bad news are already in a stressful situation.
1:11.2	And the fact that they're disliked as a result makes it even worse.
1:16.2	And second, earlier research has already shown that people have a hard time accepting advice
1:21.1	from people they dislike.
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