How Pain Works

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

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🗓️ 17 November 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

In recent decades we’ve come to understand that there’s a lot more to pain than: touch hot stove/feel burning hand. Pain is a far more sophisticated experience and, unfortunately, a system that can often go haywire, with terrible effects.

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
0:05.7	That's why we launched The Big Take.
0:08.3	It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit
0:14.0	to give you some space to think.
0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
0:17.7	Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.
0:23.6	Listen to The Big Take on the I Heart Radio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
0:31.3	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio's House Stuff Works.
0:41.3	Hey and welcome to the podcast.
0:42.8	I'm Josh Clark.
0:43.8	There's Charles Dobby Chuck Bryan over there and Jerry's out there running around somewhere
0:48.7	which is gave her a hot foot.
0:55.7	It's hilarious and this is Stuff You Should Know.
0:59.7	What else have we talked about with paint?
1:01.8	We did one on the paint scales a couple of years ago and then we did one on something about
1:08.0	perceiving paint.
1:09.9	This one, this one, this is just totally Stuff You Should Know, because we did a bunch of
1:15.9	more niche stuff and now we're going back and doing like the umbrella topic.
1:21.1	We're talking about paint which is a super ancient old evolutionary trait I guess that's
1:31.4	shared basically throughout all living things.
1:34.8	I would say it's a pretty fair guess.
1:37.9	I think so.
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