Time Perception, Heart in a Box, Flying Ticks

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4.6 • 963 Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Today, you’ll learn about a new study on our perception of time, a breakthrough in the tech behind heart transplants, and about the crazy way ticks fly.

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Time Perception

“The Timekeeper Within: New Discovery on How the Brain Judges Time.” by Hedi Young. 2023.
- https://www.fchampalimaud.org/news/timekeeper-within-new-discovery-how-brain-judges-time
“Using temperature to analyze the neural basis of a time-based decision.” by Tiago Monteiro, et al. 2023.
- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-023-01378-5

Heart in a Box

“Multicenter Trial Finds Using Circulatory Death Donors is Safe and Effective for Heart Transplantation.” n.a. 2023.
- https://news.feinberg.northwestern.edu/2023/06/14/multicenter-trial-finds-using-circulatory-death-donors-is-safe-and-effective-for-heart-transplantation/
“Transplantation Outcomes with Donor Hearts after Circulatory Death.” by Jacob N. Schroder, M.D. 2023.
- https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2212438
“Establishing the new standard of care for organ transplantation.” TransMedics Website. N.d.
- https://www.transmedics.com/

Flying Ticks

“Ticks Fly Through the Air Via the Power of Static Electricity.” by Christie Wilcox. 2023.
- https://www.science.org/content/article/watch-ticks-fly-through-air-power-static-electricity
“Static electricity passively attracts ticks onto hosts.” by Sam J. England, et al. 2023.
- https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(23)00772-8?_returnURL=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0960982223007728?showall%3Dtrue
“Tick-borne Diseases.” Washington State Department of Health. N.d.
- https://doh.wa.gov/you-and-your-family/illness-and-disease-z/tick-borne-diseases
“Economic Burden of Reported Lyme Disease in High-Incidence Areas, United States, 2014-2016.” CDC. 2022.
- https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/28/6/21-1335_article
“Guide to Tick-Borne Diseases.” Nayana Ambardekar, MD. 2021.
- https://www.webmd.com/skin-problems-and-treatments/ss/tick-borne-diseases

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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.
0:11.0	I'm Nate.
0:12.0	And I'm Callie. If you're dropping in for the first time
0:13.9	welcome to curiosity where we aim to blow your mind by helping you to grow your mind.
0:17.7	If you're a loyal listener, welcome back. Today you'll learn about a new study on
0:21.5	our perception of time, a breakthrough in the tech behind
0:25.1	heart transplants, and about the crazy way ticks fly.
0:29.6	Without further ado, let's satisfy some curiosity. Have you ever been doing something like going to the dentist, for example, that took just a few minutes, but seemed like it took hours?
0:40.0	Yeah, it's like there's this bend in space time. I know getting a cavity filled only takes like 20 minutes, but it feels like I've aged 40 years by the time I'm finally spitting into that little suction tube.
0:51.0	Very true.
0:53.0	And then I assume on the other side you've probably also done something for hours that felt
0:57.3	just like minutes, right?
0:59.3	Sure.
1:00.8	Every time
1:03.2	flies.
1:04.2	Oh, well what you're experiencing in those situations is called time dilation.
1:10.2	Our smartphones can perfectly keep track of every second as it beats past, but our minds experience time differently.
1:17.0	Sometimes it races by and other times it just kind of sits there.
1:21.0	We've all experienced that, but I'll say I've never... of have been thinking about our relationship with time for centuries.
1:33.0	So researchers at Champelimo Research's learning lab in Portugal
1:38.0	published a new study in the journal Nature Neuroscience that gives a pretty
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