Tool to Cure Hiccups, Corvid Childhoods, How Spacecraft Move
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 963 Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2021
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Learn about a scientific tool to cure hiccups; why corvids owe big brains to longer childhoods; and how spacecraft move.
Finally, the first-ever scientific tool to cure hiccups by Grant Currin
- Team describes science-based hiccups intervention. (2021). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-06/uoth-tds061821.php
- Alvarez, J., Anderson, J. M., Snyder, P. L., Mirahmadizadeh, A., Godoy, D. A., Fox, M., & Seifi, A. (2021). Evaluation of the Forced Inspiratory Suction and Swallow Tool to Stop Hiccups. JAMA Network Open, 4(6), e2113933. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.13933
- https://newatlas.com/author/ben-coxworth. (2021, June 21). Drinking device claimed to help halt hiccups. New Atlas. https://newatlas.com/health-wellbeing/fisst-hiccaway-hiccups/
- Herndon, J. (2018, May 29). Why Do We Hiccup? Healthline; Healthline Media. https://www.healthline.com/health/why-do-we-hiccup#Why-we-get-hiccups
Corvids owe big brains to parenting/long childhoods by Steffie Drucker
- Extended parenting helps young birds grow smarter. (2020). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-05/mpif-eph052920.php
- Heidt, A. (2020, June 8). Like humans, these big-brained birds may owe their smarts to long childhoods. Science | AAAS. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/06/humans-these-big-brained-birds-may-owe-their-smarts-long-childhoods
- Extended parenting and the evolution of cognition | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. (2020). Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1098/rstb.2019.0495
If space is full of nothing, how can spacecraft move? by Ashley Hamer (Listener question from Nathan in Clive, Iowa)
- How does a rocket work in space where there is no air to push against? | Science Guys | Union University, a Christian College in Tennessee. (2014). Uu.edu. https://www.uu.edu/dept/physics/scienceguys/2002Sept.cfm
- Howell, E. (2013, April 9). How Do Space Rockets Work Without Air? Livescience.com; Live Science. https://www.livescience.com/34475-how-do-space-rockets-work-without-air.html
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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. |
| 0:06.2 | I'm Cody Gough. And I'm Ashley Hamer. |
| 0:08.2 | Today you learn about the first ever scientific tool to cure hiccups, and why a longer childhood means bigger brains for smart birds called Corvids. |
| 0:18.0 | We'll also answer a listener question about how spacecraft are able to move around even though space is full of nothing. |
| 0:24.0 | Let's satisfy some curiosity. |
| 0:27.0 | Stop holding your breath, put down that glass of water, drop that spoonful of sugar. |
| 0:32.0 | That's right. Researchers in Texas have invented a |
| 0:36.4 | cure for the hiccups. So hiccups are annoying for most, but they can |
| 0:42.0 | actually be particularly unpleasant and super persistent |
| 0:45.2 | for certain people, like those with certain neuromuscular injuries and cancer patients undergoing |
| 0:50.1 | some kinds of chemotherapy. That's why the fist is such a big deal. |
| 0:56.0 | Fist stands for forced inspiratory suction and swallow tool. |
| 1:01.0 | It looks like a chunky drinking straw, and that's basically how it's used. |
| 1:05.0 | When someone has the hiccups, they put the fist into a glass of water and then suck the liquid through a pressure valve at the base of the straw before swallowing. |
| 1:13.0 | Again, this thing is basically a high-tech straw. |
| 1:17.0 | Hickups get their name from the sound that's made when the glottis, that's the part of your throat that contains |
| 1:21.7 | your vocal cords, closes really quickly. |
| 1:25.0 | That's the sound of a hiccup. |
| 1:26.7 | But that pesky condition starts deeper in the body at the diaphragm. |
| 1:31.2 | That's the sheet of muscle under the lungs that usually makes it so you can take smooth rhythmic breaths. |
| 1:37.0 | Hickups happen when something throws the diaphragm out of whack and causes involuntary contractions. |
| 1:43.0 | The fist is designed to put the diaphragm back in its normal rhythm. |
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