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Wed. 10/06 - "Corpse Medicine," Brain Implants, & Actors In Space

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

Tech News, News, Science, Society & Culture

4.6739 Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2021

⏱️ 19 minutes

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A Russian film crew have arrived on the International Space Station to shoot the first-ever feature length film in space. A woman has received a brain implant that is successfully treating her depression by painlessly zapping her hundreds of times a day. And the seventeenth century health trend that was all the rage in Europe: corpse medicine. Sponsor: Novo, BankNovo.com/kottke Links: This Russian duo are set to make the first feature film in space (Euro News) Russian film crew in orbit to make first movie in space (AP) A Russian actor blasts off to make a movie on the International Space Station (NPR) This woman’s brain implant zaps her with electricity when it senses she’s getting depressed (MIT Technology Review) A surgically implanted brain stimulation device could help treat severe depression (The Verge) European 'Corpse Medicine' Promised Better Health Through Cannibalism (Atlas Obscura) Zodiac Killer Allegedly Identified by Team of Independent Investigators (Complex) Kottke.Org 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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0:41.4

I'm Jackson Bird.

0:42.5

Today, a Russian film crew have arrived on the International Space Station to shoot the first ever feature-length film in space.

0:51.6

A woman has received a brain implant that is successfully treating her depression

0:56.7

by painlessly zapping her hundreds of times a day. And the 17th century health trend that was

1:04.4

all the rage in Europe, corpse medicine. Here are some of the cool things from the news today.

1:13.4

To more people joined the International Space Station yesterday. Russian actress

1:18.9

Yulia Perslid and director Klim Schipenko, alongside experienced cosmonaut Anton Schlapperov,

1:24.8

docked at the ISS from the Soyuz MS-19 in the late afternoon.

1:29.7

And apologies as we go on for my horrible Russian surname pronunciations.

1:36.0

As Euro News pointed out, Russia was the first to successfully launch a satellite,

1:40.8

the first to put a man in space, the first to put a woman in space, they did the first

1:45.6

spacewalk, the first space station, and now we'll shoot the first feature-length movie in space.

1:52.9

Quoting NPR, the crew is traveling to the ISS to film portions of a movie called The Challenge.

1:58.7

The movie will reportedly tell the story of a Russian doctor

2:01.7

who rushes to save the life of a cosmonaut aboard the International Space Station, end quote.

2:07.8

Persolid and Schpenko will spend 12 days shooting the space scenes of the movie, and the other

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