Quarantine Survival Tips (w/ Dr. Renée Lertzman and “Deadliest Catch” Captains Sig & Keith) and Why We Have Birthmarks
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 935 Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2020
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Learn about fun (but practical) tips for surviving a quarantine from psychologist Renée Lertzman and “Deadliest Catch” Captains Sig Hansen and Keith Colburn. Plus: learn about why we have birthmarks.
Why do we have birthmarks? by Ashley Hamer (Listener question from Taha)
- Germ layer | biology | Britannica. (2020). In Encyclopædia Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/science/germ-layer
- Birthmarks. (2020). Medlineplus.Gov; National Library of Medicine. https://medlineplus.gov/birthmarks.html
- Neural Crest - Melanocyte Development - Embryology. (2020). Unsw.Edu.Au. https://embryology.med.unsw.edu.au/embryology/index.php/Neural_Crest_-_Melanocyte_Development
- Cichorek, M., Wachulska, M., Stasiewicz, A., & Tymińska, A. (2013). Skin melanocytes: biology and development. Advances in Dermatology and Allergology, 1, 30–41. https://doi.org/10.5114/pdia.2013.33376
- Genetics Home Reference. (2017). Are moles determined by genetics? Genetics Home Reference. https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/primer/traits/moles
- Family Health Team. (2018, May 3). Melanoma: When Should You Worry About a Mole? Health Essentials from Cleveland Clinic; Health Essentials from Cleveland Clinic. https://health.clevelandclinic.org/melanoma-when-should-you-worry-about-a-mole/
Learn more about Deadliest Catch, Tuesdays at 8 PM ET/PT on Discovery
- Official website https://www.discovery.com/shows/deadliest-catch
- Watch Deadliest Catch https://go.discovery.com/tv-shows/deadliest-catch
- Follow @DeadliestCatch on Twitter https://twitter.com/DeadliestCatch
- Follow Keith Colburn on Twitter https://twitter.com/crabwizard
Additional resources from Dr. Renée Lertzman
- TED Talk: How to turn climate anxiety into action https://www.ted.com/talks/renee_lertzman_how_to_turn_climate_anxiety_into_action
- Official website https://reneelertzman.com/
- Follow @reneelertzman on Twitter https://twitter.com/reneelertzman/
- Window of Tolerance https://www.nicabm.com/trauma-how-to-help-your-clients-understand-their-window-of-tolerance/
- Purchase “Environmental Melancholia: Psychoanalytic dimensions of engagement (Psychoanalytic Explorations)” on Amazon https://amazon.com
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Curiosity.com. |
| 0:06.3 | I'm Cody Gough. |
| 0:07.3 | And I'm Ashley Hamer. |
| 0:08.3 | Today you learn about some fun but practical tips for staying happy and healthy during a quarantine and we'll do it with |
| 0:13.8 | help from Captain Sigg and Keith from deadliest catch and psychologist Renee Lertzman |
| 0:18.2 | but first we'll answer a listener question about why we have birthmarks |
| 0:21.9 | let's satisfy some curiosity. |
| 0:24.0 | We got a listener question from Taha who asks, |
| 0:27.0 | why do we have birthmarks and or moles on our bodies? |
| 0:30.0 | Great question, Taha. |
| 0:32.0 | Short answer, you have a few different types of cells in your skin, and birthmarks in moles form because those cells aren't evenly distributed. |
| 0:39.0 | Now, just to get our definitions straight, a birthmark is just any skin mark that's present when you're born. |
| 0:45.0 | Moles can be birthmarks, or they can show up later in life. |
| 0:49.0 | To be clear, scientists don't know why birthmarks form, |
| 0:52.0 | but they have a pretty good understanding of how. |
| 0:55.4 | To understand that, we have to go back in time to before you were born, like nine months |
| 1:00.5 | before you were born, when you were just a clump of dividing cells. |
| 1:04.7 | Those cells pretty quickly specialized and divided themselves into three layers. |
| 1:09.2 | The inner layer formed most of your internal organs. |
| 1:11.9 | The middle layer formed your heart, bones, and deep layers of skin, and the outer layer formed your surface layer of skin, your hair, and your nervous system. |
| 1:20.0 | That outer layer was where pigment-producing cells called melanocytes were made. |
| 1:24.8 | As all those different cells got jobs around your body, |
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