Stanford Technique for Picking Creative Ideas, Why Whales Are So Big (But Not Bigger), and the First Medical Diagnosis and Treatment in Space from Earth

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🗓️ 10 February 2020

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Learn about how doctors on Earth diagnosed and treated an astronaut’s medical problem in space for the first time; a new study that explains why whales are so big, but not bigger; and a Stanford technique for getting better at picking creative ideas.

The First Medical Diagnosis and Treatment in Space from Earth by Mae Rice

First reported occurrence and treatment of spaceflight medical risk 200+ miles above Earth. (2020). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-01/lsuh-1ro010220.php
The Human Body in Space. (2011). NASA. https://www.nasa.gov/hrp/bodyinspace
Venous Thrombosis during Spaceflight | NEJM. (2020). New England Journal of Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMc1905875
How Long Does it Take to Get to Mars? (2013, May 9). Universe Today. https://www.universetoday.com/14841/how-long-does-it-take-to-get-to-mars/
Rivard, A. B., & Bracken Burns. (2018, December 6). Anatomy, Head and Neck, Internal Jugular Vein. Nih.Gov; StatPearls Publishing. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK513258/

Why Whales Are So Big (But Not Bigger) by Steffie Drucker

Learn, J. (2019, December 16). New Research Reveals Why Whales Evolved to be so Big. Discover Magazine. https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/new-research-reveals-why-whales-evolved-to-be-so-big-isns
Goldbogen, J. A., Cade, D. E., Wisniewska, D. M., Potvin, J., Segre, P. S., Savoca, M. S., Hazen, E. L., Czapanskiy, M. F., Kahane-Rapport, S. R., DeRuiter, S. L., Gero, S., Tønnesen, P., Gough, W. T., Hanson, M. B., Holt, M. M., Jensen, F. H., Simon, M., Stimpert, A. K., Arranz, P., … Pyenson, N. D. (2019). Why whales are big but not bigger: Physiological drivers and ecological limits in the age of ocean giants. Science, 366(6471), 1367–1372. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aax9044
Whale Classification of Whales Baleen Whales Toothed Whales. (2020). Whaleroute.Com. https://www.whaleroute.com/class/index.htm
Black, R. (2014, April 22). Whales vs. Dinosaurs: What’s the Biggest Animal of All Time? Slate Magazine; Slate. https://slate.com/technology/2014/04/whales-or-dinosaurs-what-are-the-biggest-heaviest-longest-animals-ever.html
Blue whales can eat half a million calories in a single mouthful. (2010, December 9). Nationalgeographic.com. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/phenomena/2010/12/09/blue-whales-can-eat-half-a-million-calories-in-a-single-mouthful/
Learn, J. (2019, December 16). New Research Reveals Why Whales Evolved to be so Big. Discover Magazine. https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/new-research-reveals-why-whales-evolved-to-be-so-big-isns
Williams, T. M. (2019). The biology of big. Science, 366(6471), 1316–1317. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aba1128

Stanford Technique for Picking Creative Ideas by Steffie Drucker

Stanford. (2019, December 13). How you can get better at picking creative ideas. Futurity. https://www.futurity.org/creativity-creative-ideas-2232732/
Berg, J. M. (2019). When silver is gold: Forecasting the potential creativity of initial ideas. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 154, 96–117. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.obhdp.2019.08.004

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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.
0:05.8	I'm Cody Guff. And I'm Ashley Hamer.
0:07.8	Today you learn about how doctors on Earth diagnosed and
0:15.0	Stanford's medical problem in space for the first time,
0:14.0	a new study that explains why whales are so big, but not bigger,
0:18.0	and Stanford research that uncovered
0:20.0	how you can get better at picking creative ideas.
0:22.0	Let's satisfy some curiosity. how you can get better at picking creative ideas.
0:22.5	Let's satisfy some curiosity.
0:24.9	In space, no one can hear you scream, let alone cough.
0:30.0	But that doesn't mean astronauts can't get medical care.
0:33.2	Recently, doctors diagnosed and treated an astronaut in space,
0:37.0	from Earth, for the first time.
0:39.7	This only happened because the astronaut was lucky enough to be a participant in a medical study about space travel's effects on circulation.
0:47.0	Specifically, the researchers behind the study wanted to know how microgravity would affect the internal jugular vein. That sends blood from the
0:54.7	brain to the heart, so it's pretty important. In space though, blood tends to float
1:00.1	up towards an astronaut's head. How does this affect the jugular? To find out, the
1:05.0	researchers studied 11 astronauts on a multi-month mission on the International Space Station.
1:09.6	At set intervals throughout the trip, the astronauts ran
1:13.2	ultrasound on themselves, which let doctors back on Earth
1:16.1	track their vein health in real time.
1:18.8	Two months into the mission, one astronaut's ultrasound revealed a blood clot in the jugular vein.
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