How Motion Sickness Works

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

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🗓️ 7 June 2016

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Motion sickness is the worst and hits about 25 to 40 percent of humans when they ride in cars, boats, or simply watch the wrong 3-D movie. Join us as we break down the science behind this nausea-inducing affliction.

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0:31.4	Welcome to you, stuff you should know from howstuffworks.com.
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0:43.1	I'm Joshua Clark.
0:45.0	There's Charles W. Chuck Bryant and Jerry's over there.
0:49.0	I'm speaking in a monotone kind of... hey dude.
0:56.0	Hey, what's going?
0:58.0	What's going on?
1:00.0	I'm not motion sick, so things are fine.
1:04.0	Do you get motion sick?
1:06.0	Sometimes I mean if the conditions are right, I was really surprised to find that not everybody gets motion sick.
1:12.0	What are your conditions?
1:14.0	Poor ventilation and lots of movement, back seat of a car.
1:21.0	But anytime I read in a car, even glancing at my phone on a map.
1:29.0	Really?
1:30.0	If I have to read anything, it gets me very quick.
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