The Skyscraper-Shaking Fitness Class (w/ Matt Parker), When Hanger Is Most Likely to Strike, and Studying the Human Brain’s Jiggle

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Self-improvement, Science, Astronomy, Education

4.6 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2020

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Learn about when you’re most likely to feel hangry (and how to avoid it); what scientists can learn from watching the human brain jiggle; and how resonant frequencies helped a fitness class shake an entire skyscraper — with help from stand-up mathematician Matt Parker.

Scientists Determined When Hanger Is Most Likely to Strike by Annie Hartman

https://curiosity.com/topics/scientists-determined-when-hanger-is-most-likely-to-strike-curiosity

What can scientists learn from watching the human brain jiggle? by Cameron Duke

Diameter of a Human Hair - The Physics Factbook. (n.d.). Hypertextbook.com. Retrieved March 26, 2020, from https://hypertextbook.com/facts/1999/BrianLey.shtml
hippocampus | Definition, Location, Function, & Facts | Britannica. (2019). In Encyclopædia Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/science/hippocampus
Mosher, C. P., Wei, Y., Kamiński, J., Nandi, A., Mamelak, A. N., Anastassiou, C. A., & Rutishauser, U. (2020). Cellular Classes in the Human Brain Revealed In Vivo by Heartbeat-Related Modulation of the Extracellular Action Potential Waveform. Cell Reports, 30(10), 3536–3551.e6. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2020.02.027
Scientists categorize neurons by the way the brain jiggles during a heartbeat. (n.d.). Medicalxpress.com. Retrieved March 26, 2020, from https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-03-scientists-categorize-neurons-brain-jiggles.html

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

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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.
0:06.8	I'm Cody Gough.
0:07.8	And I'm Ashley Hamer.
0:08.8	Today you'll learn about when you're most likely to feel hangary and how to avoid it, what scientists can learn from watching
0:15.3	the human brain jiggle, and how a fitness class shook an entire skyscraper with help from
0:21.3	stand-up mathematician Matt Parker.
0:24.0	Let's shake up some curiosity.
0:26.3	If you sometimes find yourself unreasonably angry
0:29.6	for no apparent reason, you might have been struck by Hanger and not even know it.
0:35.0	How would you describe being Hangry, Ashley?
0:38.0	It's like when you're really irritable when you haven't had anything to eat.
0:41.0	It's like you turn into a five-year-old who hasn't had their snack.
0:44.0	Who's hungry and angry? Yeah, hungry, exactly. Ha ha! Well get this, it turns out that not being
0:51.6	aware that you're hungry is exactly the time Hanger can strike.
0:56.0	Unfortunately, researchers have found some ways to avoid that hangry feeling.
1:01.0	A study published last year in the journal Emotion set out to find what triggered
1:05.9	hangry feelings.
1:07.7	The researchers theorized it wasn't due to just hunger alone.
1:11.5	The first part of the study involved some participants who were hungry and some who weren't.
1:16.1	They looked at images designed to evoke positive, negative, or neutral emotions.
1:21.3	And then they were shown a Chinese character and asked to guess
1:24.5	whether it meant something positive or negative. Everyone who saw negative images
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