School Sleep, Ancient Runestone, Postpartum Depression Pill

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🗓️ 23 March 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Today we discuss how early morning classes at universities could be leading to poor academic performance, how scientists uncovered the world’s oldest runestone, and a new breakthrough treatment in postpartum depression.

School Sleep

“Early morning university classes are associated with impaired sleep and academic performance” by Sing Chen Yeo et al.
- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-023-01531-x
“Study: Early Classes Connected to Poor Academic Performance” by Safia Abdulahi
- https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2023/02/22/study-early-classes-connected-poor-academic-performance#:~:text=A%20new%20study%20found%20that,analyzed%20university%20students'%20digital%20traces.
“Early Morning College Classes Correlated With Poor Academic Performance, Large Study Finds” by James Felton
- https://www.iflscience.com/early-morning-college-classes-correlated-with-poor-academic-performance-large-study-finds-67627
“New Study: Lack of Sleep Hurts Students’ Grades” by Scott Jaschik
- https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2023/02/17/new-study-lack-sleep-hurts-students%E2%80%99-grades
“Nightly sleep duration predicts grade point average in the first year of college” by J. David Creswell et al.
- https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2209123120

Ancient Runestone

“Norway archaeologists find ‘world’s oldest runestone’” by Associated Press
- https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/norway-archaeologists-find-worlds-oldest-runestone-rcna66066
“‘Sensational’ Runestone Discovered in Norway May Be the World’s Oldest” by Brigit Katz
- https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/sensational-runestone-discovered-in-norway-may-be-the-worlds-oldest-180981470/#:~:text='Sensational'%20Runestone%20Discovered%20in%20Norway%20May%20Be%20the%20World's%20Oldest,-The%20find%20promises&text=During%20the%20fall%20of%202021,Germanic%20peoples%20of%20northern%20Europe.
“Archaeologists in Norway find ‘world’s oldest runestone’” by Jan M. Olsen
- https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/archaeologists-in-norway-find-worlds-oldest-runestone
“Found the world's oldest rune stone” by University of Oslo
- https://www.khm.uio.no/english/news/found-the-world-s-oldest-rune-stone.html
“Runic magic” by National Museum of Denmark
- https://en.natmus.dk/historical-knowledge/denmark/prehistoric-period-until-1050-ad/the-viking-age/religion-magic-death-and-rituals/runic-magic/

Postpartum Depression Pill

“Researchers Uncover Mechanisms of Brexanolone and the Role of Inflammation in Post-partum Depression” by UNC Newsroom
- https://news.unchealthcare.org/2023/02/researchers-uncover-mechanisms-of-brexanolone-and-the-role-of-inflammation-in-post-partum-depression/
“Brexanolone therapeutics in post-partum depression involves inhibition of systemic inflammatory pathways” by Irina Balan et al.
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352396423000385
“Postpartum Depression” by Cleveland Clinic
- https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/9312-postpartum-depression#management-and-treatment

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0:00.0	Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Discovery.
0:09.0	Time flies when you're learning super cool stuff.
0:11.0	I'm Nate.
0:12.0	And I'm Callie. If you're dropping in for the first time
0:13.7	welcome to curiosity where we aim to blow your mind by helping you to grow your mind.
0:17.6	If you're a loyal listener, welcome back. Today you'll learn about how early
0:21.3	morning classes at universities could be leading to poor academic performance,
0:25.5	how scientists uncover the world's oldest Roonstone, and a new breakthrough treatment in postpartum depression.
0:32.3	Without further ado, let's satisfy some curiosity.
0:35.0	All right, Cali, when you were in school, did you feel like you were a better student in your early morning classes or your later afternoon classes?
0:42.0	You know, I actually liked my early morning classes,
0:46.0	but I know that's not everybody's cup of tea.
0:48.0	Freshman year, I took Econ 101 as like an 8 or 830 class and oh no that was just a terrible idea someone
0:57.0	should have told me no one even recommended like maybe don't take early morning
1:00.8	class your first semester of college.
1:03.0	Well, not everyone is like you.
1:05.0	A new study that was published in the journal Nature Human Behavior
1:09.0	reveals that early morning classes are correlated with poor academic performance.
1:14.1	So researchers wanted to look into whether students at a university did better at school during the
1:18.0	morning, afternoon, or night, and the researchers did this by analyzing university students digital footprints through
1:23.8	their Wi-Fi usage when they were connected how long they were connected and
1:27.6	where they were. Okay so it's almost like digital archaeology which is pretty
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