How Feeling Sick Is Colored by Culture, The Venomous Dinosaur from Jurassic Park IRL, and All the Light Ever Produced in the Universe
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🗓️ 5 August 2020
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Learn about how culture plays a role in feeling sick; that time scientists measured all the light in the known universe; and what Jurassic Park got wrong about the Dilophosaurus, that venomous dinosaur with the frilly collar.
Culture plays a role in feeling sick by Kelsey Donk
- Researchers study role culture plays in feeling sick. (2020). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-03/uota-rsr022720.php
- Shattuck, E. C., Perrotte, J. K., Daniels, C. L., Xu, X., & Sunil, T. S. (2020). The Contribution of Sociocultural Factors in Shaping Self-Reported Sickness Behavior. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 14. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2020.00004
Scientists Measured All the Light Ever Produced in the Universe by Ashley Hamer
- The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. (2020). Nasa.gov. https://fermi.gsfc.nasa.gov/
- A gamma-ray determination of the Universe’s star formation history. (2018). Science, 362(6418), 1031–1034. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aat8123
- Clemson scientists measure all of the starlight ever produced by the observable universe. (2018). Newsstand | Clemson University News and Stories, South Carolina. https://newsstand.clemson.edu/mediarelations/clemson-scientists-measure-all-of-the-starlight-ever-produced-by-the-observable-universe/
- The Extragalactic Background Light. (2020). Cta-Observatory.org. https://portal.cta-observatory.org/Pages/The-Extragalactic-Background-Light.aspx
- Koren, M. (2018, November 30). How Scientists Measured All the Starlight in the Universe. The Atlantic; The Atlantic. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/11/starlight-universe-blazar-galaxy/576934/
Remember the venomous dino with the frilly collar from Jurassic Park? Here's what it was really like by Grant Currin
- Stan Winston School of Character Arts. (2020). Stanwinstonschool.com. https://www.stanwinstonschool.com/blog/jurassic-park-dilophosaurus-dinosaur-puppet
- Famous “Jurassic Park” dinosaur is less lizard, more bird. (2020). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-07/uota-fp070720.php
- Marsh, A. D., & Rowe, T. B. (2020). A comprehensive anatomical and phylogenetic evaluation of Dilophosaurus wetherilli (Dinosauria, Theropoda) with descriptions of new specimens from the Kayenta Formation of northern Arizona. Journal of Paleontology, 94(S78), 1–103. https://doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2020.14
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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'll learn about how culture plays a role in feeling sick, that time scientists measured all the light in the known |
| 0:14.5 | universe, and what Jurassic Park got wrong about that venomous dinosaur with the frilly |
| 0:19.8 | collar. Let's satisfy some curiosity. |
| 0:23.0 | If the coronavirus pandemic has shown us anything, |
| 0:26.0 | it's that the same illness can make some people feel sicker than others. |
| 0:31.0 | A lot of that comes down to age and underlying health conditions. |
| 0:36.1 | But a study from before the pandemic goes one step further. When you get sick, |
| 0:41.6 | how sick you actually feel can be influenced by your gender, your income, and even family ties. |
| 0:49.0 | And let's be clear from the start, when you're sick, the mental and physical sensations you experience |
| 0:55.5 | aren't just in your head. They're a natural reaction by your immune system. In this study only |
| 1:01.1 | looked at cold and flu symptoms, not symptoms from the coronavirus. |
| 1:06.0 | If you feel any symptoms, especially those associated with COVID-19, |
| 1:11.0 | it's important to reach out to a medical professional. |
| 1:13.0 | But when it comes to cold and flu, symptom differences might come down to less physical factors like identity and culture. |
| 1:21.0 | To find this out, researchers at the University of Texas San Antonio surveyed |
| 1:25.9 | more than 1,200 Americans. They asked the participants to think about a recent time when they were |
| 1:31.3 | sick with the flu or the cold. Did they feel tired, |
| 1:35.2 | want to be alone, did they feel sore or want to sleep? Well, as you might expect, how sick people |
| 1:41.7 | remembered feeling varied by income. But it was also different for men |
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