Revenge Bedtime Procrastination, Elephant Trunks, Pineapples Eat You Back
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 963 Ratings
🗓️ 19 July 2021
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Learn about how to combat revenge bedtime procrastination; the power of elephant trunks; and how pineapples eat you back.
How to combat "revenge bedtime procrastination" by Kelsey Donk
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Elephants can suck water into their trunks 30 times faster than you sneeze by Cameron Duke
- How an elephant’s trunk manipulates air to eat and drink. (2021). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-06/giot-hae060121.php
- Schulz, A. K., Ning Wu, J., Ha, S. Y. S., Kim, G., Braccini Slade, S., Rivera, S., Reidenberg, J. S., & Hu, D. L. (2021). Suction feeding by elephants. Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 18(179), 20210215. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2021.0215
Pineapples eat you back, thanks to a meat-tenderizer enzyme by Grant Currin
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- Di Lullo, G. A., Sweeney, S. M., Körkkö, J., Ala-Kokko, L., & San Antonio, J. D. (2002). Mapping the Ligand-binding Sites and Disease-associated Mutations on the Most Abundant Protein in the Human, Type I Collagen. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 277(6), 4223–4231. https://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.m110709200
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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. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm Cody Goff. And I'm Ashley Hamer. |
| 0:08.0 | Today you learn about how to combat revenge bedtime procrastination, new research into how ridiculously fast elephants can suck water into their trunks, and how pineapples eat you back. |
| 0:20.0 | Let's satisfy some curiosity. |
| 0:23.0 | Some days, by the time work is over, the dishes are done, and the house is relatively tidy, |
| 0:29.0 | it can feel like it's already time to go to sleep. |
| 0:32.0 | But you want your me time. it can feel like it's already time to go to sleep. |
| 0:33.4 | But you want your me time, so just scroll, |
| 0:36.5 | or you binge watch, or you play a video game, |
| 0:39.2 | or you read instead of going to sleep. |
| 0:42.4 | And you wake up the next morning feeling tired and cranky |
| 0:46.2 | Now if this sounds familiar you'll be happy to know that it actually has a name |
| 0:50.9 | Revenge bedtime Procrastination. |
| 0:54.6 | And even better, psychologists have found some strategies to help reduce Revenge Bedtime |
| 0:59.5 | Procrastination and get to bed on time. |
| 1:03.0 | The concept of bedtime procrastination has been around since 2014. |
| 1:08.0 | Researchers at the time defined it as the act of going to bed later than you plan to, even though no external factors get in the way. |
| 1:17.0 | Revenge bedtime procrastination is a little difference, not in how it happens, but in the emotions behind it. |
| 1:25.9 | If you feel like you're staying up late because work or other responsibilities have stolen |
| 1:30.7 | away the rest of your day, you might be experiencing revenge bedtime |
| 1:35.3 | procrastination. A 2018 study showed that the less enjoyable a person's day was, the more |
| 1:42.4 | likely they were to put off sleep in favor of |
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