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If you're a loyal listener, welcome back. Today we're going to learn about how

online learning affects the body, how mood affects

alcohol cravings in both men and women, and how dogs have evolved to manipulate us.

Without further ado, let's satisfy some curiosity.

So, as we both know, during the pandemic, students had the difficult task of doing school online.

Yeah, I imagine that was incredibly stressful in a different way than maybe the stress that we experienced well in school.

Oh, absolutely. And since the pandemic started, a lot of studies have detailed how people emotionally react to online learning,

but I found a study that explains how the body deals with it.

Okay, that's an interesting premise.

I can't imagine that learning alone could be good for us,

but I don't exactly miss having my teacher watch me do math

equations.

Well, your teacher staring at you might have actually made your brain work harder.

Studies have long shown that moderate stress is beneficial for learning, but it turns out that because

online classes stress your body out less, you focus less on the topic at hand.

That's kind of weird. How does that even work?

So, the researchers measured a number of physiological parameters

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