Have you noticed lately that you’re seeing a lot of emergency vehicles painted bright yellow? What if you could turn off the pain center in your brain? Who was responsible for discovering the first coronavirus? And how do you survive a Twitter Moment? Just a few of the questions we chit chat about in Scirens Episode 12, our final episode of the season. Thanks for joining Screen Sirens for Science Tamara Krinsky, Gia Mora and Taryn O’Neill as we take a dive into:
– How we see color
– June Almeida
– New discoveries about how your brain processes pain
Xo,
Gia, Tamara & Taryn
EPISODE NOTES
- “Neurobiologist Finds Potent Pain-Suppression Center in the Brain”: https://today.duke.edu/2020/05/neurobiologist-finds-potent-pain-suppression-center-brain
- “The Power of the Placebo Effect”: https://www.health.harvard.edu/mental-health/the-power-of-the-placebo-effect
- “General Anesthesia Hijacks Sleep Circuitry to Knock You Out”: https://today.duke.edu/2019/04/general-anesthesia-hijacks-sleep-circuitry-knock-you-out
- “June Almeida, Scientist Who Identified the First Coronavirus” (A #GlossedOver for our time)
- “She Discovered Coronaviruses Decades Ago – But Got Little Recognition”: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/2020/04/june-almeida-discovered-coronaviruses-decades-ago-little-recognition/
- For some pictures of June Almeida and what she saw under the microscope, check out her Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_Almeida#/media/File:June_Dalziel_Almeida_died_2007.png
- “Seeing Yellow” https://indianapublicmedia.org/amomentofscience/seeing-yellow.php
- “There’s Something About Yellow”: https://visual.ly/blog/the-use-of-yellow-in-data-design/
- “How Do We See Color?”: https://www.livescience.com/32559-why-do-we-see-in-color.html
- “Tetrachromacy in Humans: You May Have Super Color Vision”:https://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2010/03/18/tetrachromacy-in-humans-you-may-have-super-color-vision
- “Why is Yellow the Color of Caution?”: https://curcioenterprises.com/2017/10/04/yellow-color-caution/
- Book: The Formula by Albert-Laszlo Barabasi https://barabasi.com/book/the-formula
- Class: Masterclass: Malcolm Gladwell Teaches Writing: https://www.masterclass.com/classes/malcolm-gladwell-teaches-writing
Companion Videos
- “How Does An Electron Microscope Work?”:
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