Stealing Money with Salami Slicing Attacks (w/ Matt Parker), You Don’t Know the Back of Your Hand, and Tylenol Eases Social Exclusion

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Self-improvement, Science, Astronomy, Education

4.6 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Stand-up mathematician Matt Parker explains real-life “salami slicing” attacks like the one in the movie Office Space. You’ll also learn about how Tylenol can help ease the pain of social rejection; and why you probably don’t know the back of your hand very well at all.

Tylenol and forgiveness may ease the pain of social exclusion by Grant Currin

Hamer, A. Tylenol May Actually Ease Your Heartache. (2017). Curiosity.com. https://curiosity.com/topics/tylenol-may-actually-ease-your-heartache-curiosity
DeWall, C. N., MacDonald, G., Webster, G. D., Masten, C. L., Baumeister, R. F., Powell, C., Combs, D., Schurtz, D. R., Stillman, T. F., Tice, D. M., & Eisenberger, N. I. (2010). Acetaminophen Reduces Social Pain. Psychological Science, 21(7), 931–937. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797610374741
A prescription for the pain of rejection: Acetaminophen and forgiveness - UCLA Health - Los Angeles, CA. (2017). UCLAHealth.org. https://www.uclahealth.org/body.cfm?id=1397&action=detail&ref=4327&fr=true
Slavich, G. M., Shields, G. S., Deal, B. D., Gregory, A., & Toussaint, L. L. (2019). Alleviating Social Pain: A Double-Blind, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Trial of Forgiveness and Acetaminophen. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 53(12), 1045–1054. https://doi.org/10.1093/abm/kaz015
Harvard Health Publishing. (2018, October 23). Acetaminophen safety: Be cautious but not afraid. Harvard Health. https://www.health.harvard.edu/pain/acetaminophen-safety-be-cautious-but-not-afraid

Additional resources from Matt Parker

Pick up “Humble Pi: When Math Goes Wrong in the Real World” on Amazon https://amazon.com
Matt Parker’s official website http://standupmaths.com/
Subscribe to Matt Parker’s YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/user/standupmaths
Follow @standupmaths on Twitter https://twitter.com/standupmaths

How well do you know the back of your hand? Probably not very well at all by Cameron Duke

D’Amour, S., & Harris, L. R. (2020). The perceived size of the implicit representation of the dorsum and palm of the hand. PLOS ONE, 15(3), e0230624. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0230624
How well do you know the back of your hand, really? (2020). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-03/yu-hw032320.php

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0:00.0	Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from
0:05.0	Curiosity.com. I'm Cody Gough. And I'm Ashley Hamer. Today you learn about how
0:09.4	Tylenol can help ease the pain of social rejection and why you probably don't know the back of your hand
0:15.3	very well at all.
0:16.9	You'll also learn about a real life scheme to steal money that comes straight from movies like
0:21.6	Office Space, in this week's edition of math mishaps with
0:24.8	Matt Parker.
0:25.8	Let's satisfy some curiosity.
0:27.8	Tylenol won't just ease your headache.
0:31.0	It can also ease a more metaphorical kind of pain.
0:34.0	New research says that a special blend of Tylenol and forgiveness can ease the pain of social rejection.
0:41.0	Surprising, right?
0:43.1	How's it possible that the same Tylenol that treats back pain
0:46.2	also treats that gnawing feeling you get
0:48.2	when a date ghosts you?
0:50.3	And yet, it is possible. And this isn't even the first evidence for it.
0:55.0	Research from a decade ago showed that people who took a cedaminophen
0:59.0	regularly tended to have fewer hurt feelings over that time
1:02.0	than people who took a placebo.
1:04.0	When the researchers looked at the Tylenol takers' brains in an fMRI,
1:08.0	they saw less activity in regions associated with processing emotional pain
1:12.0	than they did in the brains of people who took a placebo.
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