Palm-Less Oil, Polyglot Brain, Ayahuasca & Fear

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Warner Bros. Discovery

Self-improvement, Science, Astronomy, Education

4.6 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Today, you’ll learn about an effort to create palm oil without burning down millions of acres of forest, the surprising way polyglots’ brains approach their own native language, and new research on how the powerful psychedelic drug ayahuasca extinguishes fear.

Palm-Less Oil

“They Want to Make Palm Oil in a Lab. Without Palm Trees.” by Dionne Searcey. 2024.
“Things To Know About Palm Oil.” WWF. n.d.

Polyglot Brain

“For people who speak many languages, there’s something special about their native tongue.” by Anne Trafton. 2024.
“Functional characterization of the language network of polyglots and hyperpolyglots with precision fMRI.” by Saima Malik-Moraleda, et al. 2024.

Ayahuasca & Fear

“Ayahuasca accelerates fear extinction via its effect on serotonin receptors.” by Eric. W. Dolan. 2024.
“Ayahuasca-enhanced extinction of fear behaviour: Role of infralimbic cortex 5-HT2a and 5-HT1a receptors.” by Isabel Werle, et al. 2024.
“The Therapeutic Potentials of Ayahuasca: Possible Effects against Various Diseases of Civilization.” by Ede Frecska, et al. 2016.

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0:00.0	Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Discovery.
0:08.5	Time flies when you're learning super cool stuff.
0:10.5	I'm Nate.
0:11.5	And I'm Callie. If you're dropping it for the first time,
0:13.6	welcome to Curiosity, where we aim to blow your mind by helping you to grow your mind.
0:17.4	If you're a loyal listener, welcome back. Today you'll learn about an effort to
0:20.7	create palm oil without burning down millions of acres of forest.
0:24.8	The surprising way Polyglot's brains approached their own native language and new research on how
0:29.9	the powerful psychedelic drug Iowasca extinguishes fear.
0:33.7	Without further ado, let's satisfy some curiosity.
0:37.0	If you were to scan the ingredients list
0:38.8	on lots of food in your pantry,
0:40.8	everything from bread to instant noodles to ice cream to cookies.
0:44.0	I don't know why you've got ice cream in your pantry.
0:46.0	That's a question for another time, but anyways,
0:48.0	you'll probably find it.
0:50.0	Really, Nate?
0:52.0	Fair enough.
0:54.0	You might find that many of them have at least one thing in common and that's palm oil.
0:59.0	Oh yeah, yeah, as I understand it, that's...
1:02.0	It's not a great thing to have in common.
1:04.8	Like isn't that palm oil leading to some pretty major environmental problems?
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