The Amazon’s Future, Sugar Rush Retcon, A Study on Studies

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🗓️ 2 June 2022

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Today, you’ll learn about the state of the Amazon rainforest, the truth behind the mythical sugar rush, and how studies involving MRI scans may have been too small to produce significant results, but researchers may have found a solution.

The forest needs attention - not the company.

“75% of Amazon rainforest shows signs of loss, a 'tipping point' of dieback, study shows” by Doyle Rice
- ttps://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2022/03/07/amazon-rainforest-dieback-deforestation-climate-change-study/9380372002
“Fires in the Amazon are out of Control. Again” by Benji Jones
- https://www.vox.com/down-to-earth/2021/8/27/22639885/amazon-rainforest-fires-climate-change-2021
“Heaviest Object on Earth Weighs 116B Pounds” by Jenn Gidman
- https://www.newser.com/story/259238/the-10-heaviest-objects-on-earth.html
“A Framework for Quantifying Resilience to Forest Disturbance” by Timothy Bryant, Kristen Waring, Andrew Sánchez Meador, and John B. Bradford
- https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/ffgc.2019.00056/full
“7 Organizations You Can Support to Protect the Amazon Rainforest” by Erica Sánchez, Pia Gralki, and Joe McCarthy
- https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/organizations-donate-amazon-rainforest/

Maybe sugar isn’t the problem.

“Sugar rush or high on life? Dieticians explain why kids become hyperactive at parties” by Kate Dorrell
- https://www.abc.net.au/everyday/sugar-rush-dietician-does-sweet-food-make-kids-hyperactive/100839044
“There’s No Such Thing as a Sugar Rush, According to Science” by Joshua A. Krisch
- https://www.fatherly.com/health-science/theres-no-thing-sugar-rush-according-science/

Data sets need to grow to bolster studies.

“M.R.I.s Are Finding Connections Between Our Brain Activity and Psychology” By Kim Tingley
- https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/19/magazine/mri-brain-activity-psychology.html
“Reproducible brain-wide association studies require thousands of individuals” By Scott marek et al
- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04492-9
“Brain scans may reveal a lot about mental illness, but not until studies get bigger” by Jon Hamilton
- https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/04/26/1094319294/mri-brain-scan-mental-illness-brain-research

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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. I'm Nate.
0:12.0	And I'm Callie. If you're dropping in for the first time,
0:14.3	welcome to curiosity where we aim to blow your mind by helping you to grow your mind. If you're a loyal
0:18.7	listener, welcome back. Today you'll learn about the state of the Amazon rainforest, the truth behind the mythical sugar rush and how studies involving MRI scans may have been too small to produce significant results, but researchers may have found a solution.
0:33.0	Without further ado, let's satisfy some curiosity.
0:36.2	Nate, what is the Earth's favorite place?
0:38.8	I don't think I understand the question.
0:41.0	No, like the Earth itself.
0:42.4	If it had a favorite place on itself itself what do you think it would be?
0:45.2	Disneyland? I mean a good guess but no the Amazon rainforest. Oh now okay now I get it
0:51.7	it's Earth's favorite because in many ways it's the most
0:55.4	Earth. It's the most biologically rich region on the planet. You got it and that's one
1:00.1	reason as we've known since we were little it's so important to keep it
1:03.6	alive and well unfortunately right now it's so damaged that researchers think it
1:07.8	may soon cross the critical line into resilience loss. Resilience loss?
1:12.0	It could lose its resilience the force ability to loss? Resilience loss?
1:13.0	It could lose its resilience, the force ability to bounce back from damaging events like wildfires and droughts.
1:18.0	So it's kind of like its immune system becomes so weak, it's even more open to getting sick.
1:22.0	Oof, that could mean that the Earth itself
1:24.3	could get really sick too. Exactly. Of course we've seen the attacks on the
1:28.0	force well-being like the great wildfires that spread in 2019. I heard there was a
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