How 19th-Century Body-Snatchers Contributed to Medical Science
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Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 964 Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2020
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Learn how calling loved ones builds stronger social connections than texting does, why the return of wolves improved life for every animal in Yellowstone, and how body snatchers of the 19th century contributed to modern medicine.
Call, Don't Text, for a Stronger Social Connection by Kelsey Donk
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- Texas McCombs. (2020, September 10). When We Fear an Awkward Phone Call, We Often Turn to Text. Medium; Big Ideas. https://medium.com/texas-mccombs/when-we-fear-an-awkward-phone-call-we-often-turn-to-text-62ac6eec93e5
- Phone Calls Create Stronger Bonds Than Text-Based Communications. (2020, September 11). UT News. https://news.utexas.edu/2020/09/11/phone-calls-create-stronger-bonds-than-text-based-communications/
The Return of Wolves Improved Life for Every Animal in Yellowstone by Reuben Westmaas
- Tobin, K. (2015, September 4). Did wolves help restore trees to Yellowstone? PBS NewsHour. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/wolves-greenthumbs-yellowstone
- Peglar, T. (2020, June 30). 1995 Reintroduction of Wolves in Yellowstone. My Yellowstone Park. https://www.yellowstonepark.com/park/yellowstone-wolves-reintroduction
- Travsky, A. (2014, February 19). Wolves Bring Aspen Back. My Yellowstone Park. https://www.yellowstonepark.com/things-to-do/wolves-bring-yellowstone-back
- Farquhar, B. (2020, June 30). Wolf Reintroduction Changes Ecosystem. My Yellowstone Park. https://www.yellowstonepark.com/things-to-do/wolf-reintroduction-changes-ecosystem
Why 19th-Century Body Snatchers Were an Essential Part of Medical Science by Steffie Drucker
- Body Snatching Around The World | History Detectives | PBS. (2014). Pbs.Org. https://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/feature/body-snatching-around-the-world/
- The Era of the Body Snatchers. (2014, October 16). Mentalfloss.Com. https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/59550/era-body-snatchers
- Body snatching | Britannica. (2020). In Encyclopædia Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/topic/body-snatching#ref1179705
- Burke and Hare, grave robbers and murderers. (2017). Historic UK. https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofScotland/Burke-Hare-infamous-murderers-graverobbers/
- Ghazanfar, H., Rashid, S., Hussain, A., Ghazanfar, M., Ghazanfar, A., & Javaid, A. (2018). Cadaveric Dissection a Thing of the Past? The Insight of Consultants, Fellows, and Residents. Cureus. https://doi.org/10.7759/cureus.2418
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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. |
| 0:06.6 | I'm Ashley Hamer. |
| 0:07.6 | And I'm Natalia Reagan. |
| 0:08.8 | Today you learn how calling builds stronger social connections than texting does, |
| 0:13.0 | why the return of wolves improved life |
| 0:15.0 | for every animal in Yellowstone, |
| 0:17.1 | and how body snatchers of the 19th century |
| 0:19.6 | contributed to modern medicine. |
| 0:21.2 | Let's satisfy some curiosity. |
| 0:24.1 | The pandemic is still here and winter is coming. |
| 0:27.7 | That means it's as important as ever to find ways to stay connected to socially distanced friends and family. |
| 0:34.0 | It's easy to shoot someone a text or send them an email. |
| 0:37.0 | But new research from the University of Texas is a good reminder that those seemingly easy routes aren't necessarily the best ones. |
| 0:45.0 | For the strongest social connections, we should call the friends and family that we're missing. |
| 0:50.0 | In one experiment, the researchers behind this study asked 200 people to name an old friend they'd like to reconnect with. |
| 0:57.0 | Then say whether they'd rather reconnect over the phone or email and why. |
| 1:02.0 | Obviously, people said they'd rather skip the awkward |
| 1:04.9 | phone call and just send an email even though they knew the phone call would |
| 1:08.9 | probably make them feel more connected. But then the researchers did something dastardly. They randomly assigned the participants to either call or email that old friend. |
| 1:20.0 | This is making me nervous. But wouldn't you know it? |
| 1:24.0 | People reported that they formed stronger bonds with their old friends over the phone. |
| 1:29.0 | Phone calls also didn't feel any more awkward than emails. |
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