Hantavirus Outbreak: Separating Fact from Fear
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 963 Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2026
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
All you late night caffeine drinkers, it turns out that habit might be making you more impulsive. And with all the news of the hantavirus outbreak, we’ve brought on Laurel Bristow to break down what we know about hantavirus historically, what’s happening now and if there’s anything to fear. And later on, we’ll learn what is actually happening with brain-based computers and how soon the future might be here.
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| 0:29.3 | On to the show. |
| 0:34.3 | If you've been scrolling through the news lately, you might have heard whispers of a honda virus outbreak and felt your anxiety spike. |
| 0:41.3 | But before you start boarding up the windows, we got you. |
| 0:44.1 | You're listening to Curiosity Weekly, and we're swapping the stress for clarity and the fear for facts. |
| 0:50.2 | We've got a great conversation lined up to help you understand what's actually going on so you can feel informed. |
| 0:55.7 | I'll talk with Laurel Bristow, an infectious disease researcher, about what this phenomenon is really about, |
| 1:00.8 | why it's capturing everyone's attention, and how to keep your cool when the headlines get all too familiar. |
| 1:06.3 | Before that, I'll look into a study that shows how consuming caffeine at nighttime is linked to reduce self-control, |
| 1:12.3 | a.k.a. why espresso martinis make me crazy. And later, we'll check out some recent research |
| 1:17.1 | attempting to replace computer chips with neurons. This is Curiosity Weekly, and I'm your host, Dr. Samantha |
| 1:22.9 | Amin. Let's get into it. Lovers of espresso martinis, be warned, late-night caffeine consumption increases impulsive behavior, |
| 1:32.5 | particularly in women, at least if or anything like fruit flies. |
| 1:36.7 | Caffeine is the most consumed psychoactive substance on the planet. |
| 1:40.4 | So some researchers wanted to get a better understanding of what different mechanisms |
| 1:44.5 | might be going on in the brain when we have caffeine at night compared to what's going on when we have |
| 1:49.9 | it during the day. To test this out, researchers from the University of Texas at El Paso worked with |
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