Today, you’ll learn about a breakthrough in decoding brain activity using Pink Floyd, an anatomy class that would be a hit at Gotham University, and an everyday germ-blowing machine. 

Pink Floyd Brain Activity 

• “Neuroscientists Re-create Pink Floyd Song from Listeners’ Brain Activity.” by Lucy Tu. 2023.  
• “Music can be reconstructed from human auditory cortext activity using nonlinear decoding models.” by Ludovic Bellier, et al. 2023.  

Superhero Science  

• “Dissecting the anatomy of a ‘superheroic’ science class.” by Emily Caldwell. 2023.  
• “Effects of using superheroes in an undergraduate human anatomy curriculum.” by Jeremy J. Grachan. 2023.  
• “Anatomists Assemble! Integrating superheroes into the anatomy and physiology classroom.” By Jeremy J. Grachan & Melissa M. Quinn. 2021. 

Bathroom Germs 

• “Hand dryers can infect clean hands with bathroom germs.” by McKenzie Prillaman. 2023.  
• “The bacterial horror of hot-air hand dryers.” by John Ross, MD, FIDSA. 2018.  

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