Nostalgia Blocks Pain, Uploaded Brains, Sand vs. Nanoplastic

Curiosity Weekly

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🗓️ 11 August 2022

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Listen in to hear how nostalgic thoughts can be a method of physical pain relief, the recent progress made in the effort to one day upload our minds to the digital world, and how getting nanoplastic out of our drinking water could be as simple as sand!

Memories can be pain free.

“Scientists Find a Surprising Connection Between Nostalgia and Pain Relief” by Nick Keppler
- https://www.inverse.com/mind-body/nostalgia-pain-relief-connection
“Nostalgia Can Reduce Perception of Pain, Study Shows” by Lauren Kent
- https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/28/health/nostalgia-pain-relief-study-wellness/index.html

Digital thoughts.

“Could We Really Use Science To Upload Our Minds?" by Tara Yarlagadda
- https://www.inverse.com/science/upload-amazon-real-science
“Will We Ever Be Able to Upload Our Brains?” By K. Thor Jensen
- https://www.pcmag.com/news/will-we-ever-be-able-to-upload-our-brains
“Elon Musk says humans could eventually download their brains into robots — and Grimes thinks Jeff Bezos would do it” by Megan Sauer
- https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/08/elon-musk-humans-could-eventually-download-their-brains-into-robots.html
“100 Trillion Connections: New Efforts Probe and Map the Brain's Detailed Architecture” by Carl Zimmer
- https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/100-trillion-connections/
“Ted Williams Frozen In Two Pieces” by Associated Press
- https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ted-williams-frozen-in-two-pieces/

Water without plastic.

“Water Treatment Plants Would Be Ready For The Removal Of Nanoplastics” by Andri Bryner
- https://www.eawag.ch/en/news-agenda/news-portal/news-detail/water-treatment-plants-would-be-ready-for-the-removal-of-nanoplastics
“Nanoplastics Removal During Drinking Water Treatment: Laboratory- And Pilot-Scale Experiments And Modeling” by Gerardo Pulido-Reyesa, Leonardo Magherini, Carlo Bianco, Rajandrea Sethi, Ursvon Guntenac, Ralf Kaegi, and Denise M. Mitranod
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304389422008007?via%3Dihub
“How Does a Sand Filter Work?” by Joshua Reijnen
- https://royalbrinkman.com/knowledge-center/technical-projects/water-filter-technologies-horticulture/sand-filter
“Methodologies to Characterize, Identify and Quantify Nano- And Sub-Micron Sized Plastics in Relevant Media For Human Exposure: A Critical Review” by Carlo Roberto de Bruin, Eva de Rijke, Annemarie P. van Wezel, and A. Astefanei.
- https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2022/va/d1va00024a

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0:00.0	Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Discovery.
0:09.0	Time flies when you're learning super cool stuff. I'm Nate.
0:12.0	And I'm Callie. If you're dropping in for the first time,
0:14.4	welcome to curiosity where we aim to blow your mind by helping you to grow your mind.
0:18.6	If you're a loyal listener, welcome back. Today you'll learn about how nostalgic thoughts can be a method of physical pain relief.
0:26.1	The recent progress made in the effort to one day upload our minds to the digital world and
0:30.7	how getting nanoplastic out of our drinking water could be as simple as sand.
0:35.0	Without further ado, let's satisfy some curiosity.
0:38.0	So Nate, I heard you listening to Smash Mouth earlier.
0:41.0	Walking on the Sun, yeah, an old classic. You know I've been
0:44.8	thinking about nostalgia lately. I just learned that nostalgia might actually be able to
0:49.1	lessen physical pain. There are very few things that make me feel better than another late 90s
0:53.9	hit song about the big yellow orbit the center of our solar system. Lens
0:57.2	steal my sunshine. I love that one too. But nostalgia is a mental feeling
1:01.5	though. I don't quite understand what you mean about it having
1:03.7	an effect on physical pain or physical feelings of any kind. How do you even test that?
1:08.8	You use a CHEPs device.
1:10.8	CHEPs?
1:11.8	That's right. It stands for contact heat-evoked potential simulator.
1:15.6	It's basically a metal device that applies heat to your skin for testing pain levels.
1:19.4	I don't think I would have signed up for whatever study you're about to describe no matter how many
1:23.4	Mariah Carey songs I got to listen to.
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