Overcome Learned Helplessness, Teach Your Kids How to Apologize, and Macrophage Attacks
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 963 Ratings
🗓️ 7 January 2019
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Learn about macrophages and why your immune system tries to kill you sometimes (and why that might make you look at sickness in a new way); how and why you should teach your kids to apologize; and how to overcome learned helplessness to help you reach your goals.
In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter and learn something new in just a few minutes:
- Don't Look Now, But Your Immune System Kind of Wants to Kill You — https://curiosity.im/2Lp6SnQ
- Forcing Kids to Say "I'm Sorry" Doesn't Fool Anybody — https://curiosity.im/2LrLzlz
- Learned Helplessness Makes You Give Up In The Face Of Adversity. Good News: It Can Be Fixed. — https://curiosity.im/2LrjCdL
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, we've got three stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter in just a few minutes. |
| 0:05.5 | I'm Cody Gough. |
| 0:06.4 | And I'm Ashley Hamer. |
| 0:07.4 | Today you learn about why your immune system tries to kill you sometimes and why that might |
| 0:11.7 | make you look at sickness in a new way, how making kids |
| 0:14.4 | apologize might backfire, and how to overcome learned helplessness to help you reach your |
| 0:19.3 | goals. |
| 0:21.3 | Everyone wants a strong immune system, right? |
| 0:24.4 | Well, not so fast. |
| 0:25.9 | A robust immune system isn't always good for you. |
| 0:29.0 | And you can blame that on the subject of our first story today, |
| 0:31.9 | a little thing called the macrophage. The macrophage. the |
| 0:33.8 | first story today a little thing called the macrophage. |
| 0:34.8 | Sounds like I just found the perfect villain for my next Dungeons and Dragons campaign. |
| 0:38.9 | Sure, Cody. |
| 0:39.7 | The macrophage. |
| 0:41.3 | I am count macfage. No? No. Okay. Well your immune system has a lot of moving |
| 0:49.5 | parts and the macrophage is one of them. It's a type of white blood cell that's produced in your bone marrow, |
| 0:55.0 | and it gets rid of dead tissue and fights disease by attacking microbes. |
| 0:59.0 | Macrophages have been called the garbage collector or the housekeeper of the human body, like an all-purpose |
| 1:04.7 | handyman. They can do a lot to protect you and they have a surprising amount of autonomy. They pretty |
| 1:09.7 | much act like lone amoebas. They can move around on their own and they actually eat the dead cells they come across, so they have a food source independent from the bloodstream. |
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