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Hey Shortwaveers, Emily Quang here with Regina Barber and Sasha Fyfer.

What's up Sasha? Thank you for being back on our show.

Oh, you're welcome. It's fun to do this with you.

And you may know Sasha as a legendary investigative reporter and occasional host of all things considered.

And Sasha, you're here to join us for another Science News Roundup.

Yes.

Here we get to chat about three stories we've gathered for you from the latest science headlines, research papers,

and just quirky things we find on the internet.

That kind of stuff.

And I'm looking at a list of the three stories you want to talk about.

And I see a sort of health recreation fitness theme here.

That's very astute. Thank you for picking up on that.

We're talking about counting steps, ice baths, and something called virtual reality sickness.

We're going to jump into those ice cold water, Sasha, in just a minute.

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OK, Sasha, two recap, our three stories we've got for you today are counting steps, ice baths, and virtual reality sickness.

Hmm, start with that last one first.

What is virtual reality sickness?

Yeah, VR sickness for short is a lot like motion sickness, which I get in cars and boats when I read.

Same.

What's happening in our bodies, though, is that we're noticing inconsistencies between what we're seeing and what our bodies are feeling.

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