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#5 Probiotics / Michael Reeder / Tired Reading? / the Darién Gap / How You Remember
How To Stay Curious
July 10, 2024 • Estimated Reading Time: 7 minutes
The human brain is capable of only one strong emotion at a time, and if it be filled with curiosity or scientific enthusiasm, there is no room for fear.
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Curiously Counting: HTSC #5
This week, the topic is something we consume, that we shouldn’t be.
It shares more in common with one of our credit cards than it should…
WHY… | do I get tired when I read?Personal battle right here. I love reading, and went looking for ways to not get so sleepy (most of the time). |
WHO… | is Michael Reeder?I don’t recall when I first stumbled upon his art, but it instantly caught my eye, and has held it since. Michael Reeder’s work is a feast for the eyes. With each look, your eyes get greedier and greedier, sucking in the purest colors, bouncing between the sharpest of contrasts, scratching across texture, dodging shadows and settling on the enigmatic figure. The Pure Aesthetic Pleasure of Michael Reeder - viaBeautiful Bizarre |
A: Michael Reeder / S: artist’s site / L: Montreal
(pretty sure I have a shot of this one myself but no time to go hunting!)
WHERE… | is the Darién Gap?Each year, over half a million migrants cross the deadly 100-mile-long stretch of undeveloped jungle separating Colombia from Panama in search of a better life in the United States. |
WHEN… | should you take probiotics?Short answer: the jury's still out. "There is no clear data on the optimal time of day to take a probiotic supplement," says Wendi LeBrett, MD, a gastroenterologist and internal medicine physician. That said, there are a few factors that can help you decide what's best for you. When Should You Take Probiotics? We Asked 3 Gut Experts - via PopSugar & |
WHAT… | is the wet bulb temperature?I am writing this while under a heat warning - temp feels about 10 degrees (Celsius) warmer than it is, and it is toasty already. |
HOW… | does the brain decide what to remember?There’s a lot of cool science and research in this article, so without giving any of the key ways this work I though this point was really interesting: It also provides neurological reasons why rest and sleep are important for retaining information. Resting and waking brains seem to run different programs: If you sleep all the time, you won’t form memories. If you’re awake all the time, you won’t form them either. “If you just run one algorithm, you will never learn anything,” Buzsáki said. “You have to have interruptions.” How the Brain Decides What to Remember - via Wired |
Curious Counting: The Solution for #5
Five grams of plastic!! The amount estimated we consume, WEEKLY.
“It’s currently estimated that us as humans consume about five grams of microplastics per week, the equivalent of a credit card,” the study’s lead author Dr. Marcus Garcia, a pharmacist and postdoctoral fellow at the University of New Mexico, told the Star.
“We’re in a kind of rough situation where almost everything that we consume, there’s some type of microplastics present.”
Until next week - stay curious!
Rob
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