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Time Perception, Heart in a Box, Flying Ticks


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Today, you’ll learn about a new study on our perception of time, a breakthrough in the tech behind heart transplants, and about the crazy way ticks fly.

Find episode transcripts here: https://curiosity-daily-4e53644e.simplecast.com/episodes/time-perception-heart-in-a-box-flying-ticks

Time Perception

  • “The Timekeeper Within: New Discovery on How the Brain Judges Time.” by Hedi Young. 2023.
    • https://www.fchampalimaud.org/news/timekeeper-within-new-discovery-how-brain-judges-time
  • “Using temperature to analyze the neural basis of a time-based decision.” by Tiago Monteiro, et al. 2023.
    • https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-023-01378-5

Heart in a Box

  • “Multicenter Trial Finds Using Circulatory Death Donors is Safe and Effective for Heart Transplantation.” n.a. 2023.
    • https://news.feinberg.northwestern.edu/2023/06/14/multicenter-trial-finds-using-circulatory-death-donors-is-safe-and-effective-for-heart-transplantation/
  • “Transplantation Outcomes with Donor Hearts after Circulatory Death.” by Jacob N. Schroder, M.D. 2023.
    • https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2212438
  • “Establishing the new standard of care for organ transplantation.” TransMedics Website. N.d.
    • https://www.transmedics.com/

Flying Ticks

  • “Ticks Fly Through the Air Via the Power of Static Electricity.” by Christie Wilcox. 2023.
    • https://www.science.org/content/article/watch-ticks-fly-through-air-power-static-electricity
  • “Static electricity passively attracts ticks onto hosts.” by Sam J. England, et al. 2023.
    • https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(23)00772-8?_returnURL=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0960982223007728?showall%3Dtrue
  • “Tick-borne Diseases.” Washington State Department of Health. N.d.
    • https://doh.wa.gov/you-and-your-family/illness-and-disease-z/tick-borne-diseases
  • “Economic Burden of Reported Lyme Disease in High-Incidence Areas, United States, 2014-2016.” CDC. 2022.
    • https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/28/6/21-1335_article
  • “Guide to Tick-Borne Diseases.” Nayana Ambardekar, MD. 2021.
    • https://www.webmd.com/skin-problems-and-treatments/ss/tick-borne-diseases

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