How Antibiotics in Agriculture Changed How We Eat (w/ Maryn McKenna), When Daydreaming Goes Wrong, and Dogs Recognize Faces in Photos

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🗓️ 13 May 2020

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Learn about the impact of maladaptive daydreaming, then learn about whether dogs can recognize our faces in photographs. Then, author Maryn McKenna will explain how antibiotics created modern agriculture and changed the way the world eats.

People with 'maladaptive daydreaming' spend up to 4 hours a day lost in their imaginations by Kelsey Donk

People with “Maladaptive Daydreaming” spend an average of four hours a day lost in their imagination. (2018, June 25). Research Digest; Research Digest. https://digest.bps.org.uk/2018/06/25/people-with-maladaptive-daydreaming-spend-an-average-of-four-hours-a-day-lost-in-their-imagination/
Soffer-Dudek, N., & Somer, E. (2018). Trapped in a Daydream: Daily Elevations in Maladaptive Daydreaming Are Associated With Daily Psychopathological Symptoms. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 9. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00194
Pietkiewicz, I. J., Nęcki, S., Bańbura, A., & Tomalski, R. (2018). Maladaptive daydreaming as a new form of behavioral addiction. Journal of Behavioral Addictions, 7(3), 838–843. https://doi.org/10.1556/2006.7.2018.95

Dogs can recognize our faces in photographs by Grant Currin

Eatherington, C. J., Mongillo, P., Lõoke, M., & Marinelli, L. (2020). Dogs (Canis familiaris) recognise our faces in photographs: implications for existing and future research. Animal Cognition. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10071-020-01382-3

Additional resources from acclaimed journalist Maryn McKenna:

Watch our full, uncut interview with Maryn McKenna from the American Association for the Advancement of Science Annual Meeting (#AAASmtg) on YouTube https://youtu.be/2QO7DkiN4e8
Pick up “Big Chicken: The Incredible Story of How Antibiotics Created Modern Agriculture and Changed the Way the World Eats” on Amazon https://amazon.com
Official website https://marynmckenna.com/
Follow @marynmck on Twitter https://twitter.com/marynmck
TED Talk: What do we do when antibiotics don’t work any more? [VIDEO] https://www.ted.com/talks/maryn_mckenna_what_do_we_do_when_antibiotics_don_t_work_any_more
Other publications by Maryn McKenna https://amazon.com

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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 Gough. And I'm Ashley Hamer.
0:08.0	Today you'll learn about the impact of maladaptive daydreaming and whether dogs can recognize our faces and photographs.
0:14.9	Then author Marin McKenna will explain how antibiotics created modern agriculture
0:20.0	and change the way the world eats.
0:22.1	Let's satisfy some curiosity.
0:24.0	Everybody daydreams from time to time,
0:27.0	but if you find yourself lost in fantasies for hours every day
0:31.0	to the detriment of your real life?
0:33.0	That could be what psychologists call
0:35.8	maladaptive daydreaming.
0:38.0	It's a psychiatric condition people have been paying more attention to lately,
0:42.0	so we figured now might be a good time to talk about it.
0:45.1	Scientific research on Maladaptive daydreaming has been pretty limited.
0:49.3	It's shown up at a few research papers, but it hasn't landed in the pages of the diagnostic and statistical
0:55.1	manual of mental disorders, which is the Bible of mental health diagnosis.
1:00.5	Over the last few years, though, a number of internet communities have popped up to provide support and understanding for people who identify with the condition.
1:09.0	And now researchers are starting to come around the idea that maladaptive daydreaming could be worthy of study.
1:15.4	Daydreaming for hours at a time might not seem that bad.
1:19.2	And it's true that people who experience maladaptive daydreaming say they like their daydreams while they're happening.
1:26.3	The daydreams are really vivid and intense and sometimes pleasurable, but then there's the
1:31.4	maladaptive part.
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