How Vaccines in Africa Protect Everyone in the World (w/ Paul Duprex), and Semantic Satiation

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Warner Bros. Discovery

Self-improvement, Science, Astronomy, Education

4.6 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2019

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Learn from virologist Paul Duprex how vaccines in developing countries in places like Africa and southeast Asia actually make you safer, and how modern medicine could some day completely eliminate the measles. Duprex is the director of the Center for Vaccine Research at the University of Pittsburgh and a professor of microbiology and cellular genetics.

In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer also discuss the following story from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter and learn something new in just a few minutes: Repeating a Word Until It Sounds Weird Is Called Semantic Satiation — https://curiosity.im/2tIFJUS

Additional resources from Paul Duprex and the Center for Vaccine Research at the University of Pittsburgh:

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.
0:05.0	I'm Cody Gove.
0:06.0	And I'm Ashley Hamer.
0:07.0	Today you learn why repeating a word a bunch of times makes it sound weird.
0:10.0	You'll also learn from virologist Paul Dupre
0:13.0	how vaccines in developing countries like those in Africa and
0:16.1	Southeast Asia actually make you safer wherever you live
0:19.5	and how modern medicine could someday completely
0:21.8	eliminate the measles.
0:23.3	Let's set us by some curiosity.
0:25.2	Have you ever repeated the same word over and over again
0:28.0	until it starts to sound like it's not even a word?
0:30.8	Like it's just a noise and it loses all its meaning? Well, there's a term for that, and
0:35.6	scientists have actually figured out why it happens. What you're dealing with is a thing
0:39.8	called semantic satiation. The term was coined in a psychology student's doctoral
0:44.8	thesis in 1962 and what's basically happening when a word stops making any
0:49.6	sense is that your brain gets tired. The technical term is reactive inhibition.
0:55.0	When a brain cell fires, it takes more energy to fire the second time,
0:58.0	and more the third time, and finally, the fourth time,
1:01.0	it won't even respond unless you wait a few seconds.
1:04.0	What's more when you say or read a word you're also recalling its meaning.
1:08.4	That takes energy and the more times you repeat a word the more energy that takes. So eventually your brain starts resisting. It's
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