Why Multitasking Keeps You Snacking

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🗓️ 22 September 2020

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Learn about how rats might not have been all to blame for the bubonic plagues and why we’re more prone to mindlessly eat while we multitask.

When It Comes to the Black Death, the Rats May Have Been Framed by Ashley Hamer

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Multitasking might make you keep snacking even when you're full by Kelsey Donk

Ford, A. (2020) TV-watching snackers beware: you won’t notice you’re full if your attention is elsewhere. University of Sussex. https://www.sussex.ac.uk/news/research?id=52535
Morris, J., Vi, C. T., Obrist, M., Forster, S., & Yeomans, M. R. (2020). Ingested but not perceived: Response to satiety cues disrupted by perceptual load. Appetite, 104813. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2020.104813

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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.
0:06.0	I'm Ashley Hamer.
0:08.0	And I'm Natalia Reagan.
0:09.0	Today you learn about how rats might not have been all to blame for the black death and why we are more
0:14.0	prone to mindlessly eating while we multitask. Let's satisfy some curiosity.
0:18.8	Many deadly diseases throughout history have been traced to animals.
0:23.5	H1N1 came from pigs, murs came from camels, and COVID-19 may have come from bats.
0:29.5	The same has been true of the plague.
0:32.0	And we've thought for years at the Black Death of The same has been true of the plague.
0:32.8	And we've thought for years that the Black Death of the 1300s was caused by rats,
0:37.7	but a growing number of studies suggest the rats may have been framed.
0:42.0	Dun-dont-dont-dun-dun-dun-dun! The Black Death, or Bubonic Plague, got its start in 1347 when 12 trading ships arrived at a Sicilian
0:51.1	via the Black Sea.
0:53.4	Most of the sailors aboard were dead,
0:55.2	and those who were alive were feverish and covered in boils.
0:59.3	The ships were ordered out of the port,
1:01.0	but it was too late.
1:02.4	The illness spread quickly and killed 25
1:05.0	million people. More than a third of Europe's population at the time. Back then
1:10.2	explanations ranged from the mundane to the supernatural. But by the 20th century
1:15.0	scientists understood that the plague is spread by a bacterium called Yersinia
1:18.8	Pestus and it's most often contracted by the bite of a flea or louse. Those fleas typically come from
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