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Thu. 06/02 - How To OutHorse Your Email

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

News, Society & Culture, Science, Tech News

4.6739 Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2022

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Turns out your liver is quite a bit younger than expected. Plus, people with food allergies may be at a lower risk of catching COVID-19. Iceland’s new campaign to help you rein in your work-life balance while on vacation. And, in very serious news, we seem to be running out of googly eyes and Taco Bell’s Mexican Pizza. Sponsor: Shopify, Get a 14-day free trial at shopify.com/cool Links: Your Liver Is Only About Three Years Old, Scientists Say (ScienceAlert) Most People's Livers Are Just 3 Years Old (Gizmodo) Your liver is just under three years old (ScienceDaily) People With Food Allergies Seem to Have Lower Risk of SARS-CoV-2 Infection (ScienceAlert) Food allergy is associated with lower risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection (National Institutes of Health) Some Types of Asthma Protect Against Severe COVID-19, And We May Finally Know Why (ScienceAlert) Food allergies & lower SARS-CoV-2 risk (Dr. Alok Patel, Twitter) Icelandic Horses Help Respond to Work Emails So Iceland Visitors Can Disconnect and See the Sights (Laughing Squid) OutHorse Your Email (Visit Iceland)  App Lets You Destress By Screaming Into Icelandic Wilderness (NPR, 2020) Taco Bell is running out of Mexican Pizza (CNN) Did a Beloved Indie Movie Really Cause a Googly Eye Shortage? (Slate) DeLorean reveals Alpha 5, a performance EV with Back to the Future vibes (TechCrunch) Some quick photoshops of Doc Brown's new ride: the DeLorean Alpha5 EV (r/BacktotheFuture) Jackson Bird on Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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it's thursday june second twenty twenty. I'm Jackson Bird today. It turns out your liver is quite a bit younger than expected.

0:45.6

Plus, people with food allergies may be at a lower risk of catching COVID-19.

0:51.5

Iceland's new campaign to help you rein in your work-life balance while on vacation,

0:57.7

and in very serious news, we seem to be running out of googly eyes and Taco Bell's Mexican

1:03.9

pizza. Here's some cool stuff for your ride home.

1:10.0

No matter how old you get, your liver, it turns out, is never more than about

1:15.6

three years old. That's right, your liver never graduates pre-K. And we've already known that

1:21.7

the liver is a fast healing organ that can even naturally regenerate itself, so to speak,

1:26.6

after losing tissue. It's thought that even

1:28.8

the ancient Greeks were aware of this little anatomical miracle due to the myth of Prometheus, who

1:33.8

was punished for giving humans the gift of fire by having his liver eaten by an eagle every single day

1:39.6

and regrowing it overnight. But the extent of this healing capacity and whether the ability to do

1:46.2

so declines as we age has been less known. So a team of international scientists led by Dr. Olaf

1:52.5

Bergman at the Center for Regenerative Therapies, Dresden, set out to determine the age of the

1:57.6

human liver and prod at some of those questions. To do so, they looked at liver

2:02.1

cells previously collected from a sample of more than 50 people between the ages of 20 and

2:06.7

84 who had died of various causes. And to estimate the longevity of those liver cells, the team

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