How Babies Handle Vaccines (w/ Paul Duprex), Sniffing Is Contagious, and Albino Ghost Trees

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🗓️ 21 March 2019

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Learn about why sniffing is contagious; and, how one biologist solved the mystery of a rare tree that scientifically shouldn’t exist, but does. Plus, virologist Paul Duprex explains how vaccines work in babies and in people with a weakened immune system.

In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter and learn something new in just a few minutes:

Sniffing is Contagious, Like Yawning and Laughing — https://curiosity.im/2ECFVu5
Albino Ghost Trees Shouldn't Exist — But They Do — https://curiosity.im/2EAdmgU

Additional resources from Paul Duprex, director of the Center for Vaccine Research at the University of Pittsburgh and a professor of microbiology and cellular genetics:

University of Pittsburgh Center for Vaccine Research — http://cvr.pitt.edu/
Paul Duprex on Twitter — https://twitter.com/10queues
@PittCVR on Twitter — https://twitter.com/PittCVR
Measles: Why it’s so deadly, and why vaccination is so vital | The Washington Post — https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/measles-why-its-so-deadly-and-why-vaccination-is-so-vital/2019/02/15/a452e5c4-2fd0-11e9-8ad3-9a5b113ecd3c_story.html
Research from Paul Duprex — https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=duprex+wp%5Bauthor%5D
Pitt Announces New Director of the Center for Vaccine Research — https://www.upmc.com/media/news/duprex-announcement

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0:00.0	Hi, we're here from curiosity.com to help you get smarter in just a few minutes.
0:05.4	I'm Cody Gough. And I'm Ashley Hamer.
0:07.2	Today you learn about why sniffing is contagious and how one biologist solved the
0:11.8	mystery of a rare tree that scientifically shouldn't exist, but does.
0:16.0	You'll also learn why some immune systems can handle vaccines better than others,
0:20.0	with some help from virologists Paul Dupre.
0:22.0	But satisfy some curiosity. with some
0:23.2	curiosity.
0:24.2	Yawning is contagious and laughing is contagious.
0:27.2	But would you believe sniffing is contagious?
0:30.0	Well, that's what researchers discovered in 2014.
0:33.0	And these findings really back up the idea that humans are social animals.
0:37.5	For the study, a research group from the Whitesman Institute of Science in Israel
0:41.7	had 27 subjects watch a movie in a stainless steel
0:45.0	odor-free room. They showed the 2006 film Perfume, which is a thriller about a
0:50.3	perfumer-turned-murder that happens to include 28 movie sniff events within the first 60 minutes.
0:57.8	The researchers hooked up each of the participants to a nasal cannula attached to a spirometer and told them that they were being used to
1:04.5	calibrate physiological recording devices. The movie, they said, was just to keep them
1:09.3	from getting too bored. Then the researchers measured how often the participant sniffs coincided with an on-screen sniff.
1:17.0	Despite the fact that there was no odor in the room, participants tended to sniff along with the
1:21.8	characters in the film, especially when they heard a sniff but didn't see the object being sniffed.
1:27.0	Smell is the most ancient sense we have.
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