This week, we investigate one of the more complicated, fraught, mysterious, and downright unpleasant ways we and lots of other living things navigate the world: pain.
From headaches to scorpion stings, there’s lots of ways to get hurt, but is anything as painful as Hank’s Liam Neeson impression? Let’s find out!
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[Trivia Question]
Walking on LEGOs
https://science.discoveryplace.org/blog/ever-wonder-why-it-hurts-when-you-step-on-a-lego-brick
https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/469467-farthest-distance-walking-on-lego-bricks
[Fact Off]
Bees making motivational trade-off based on pain & sugar
https://www.science.org/content/article/bees-may-feel-pain
https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2205821119
Grasshopper mice block pain from scorpion venom
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1236451
https://www.nature.com/articles/nrn3404
https://brill.com/view/journals/beh/99/3-4/article-p275_5.xml?language=en
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0003347205004318
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izizsAodOCk
[Ask the Science Couch]
Pain modulation & inhibition (with other pain or distraction)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jL9GgdsyHtA
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0987705320301465
https://journals.lww.com/pain/Citation/2014/04000/Pain_modulation_profile_and_pain_therapy__Between.5.aspx
https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-26882/v3
https://journals.lww.com/painrpts/Fulltext/2022/06000/Conditioned_pain_modulation_is_associated_with.10.aspx
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7689692/
[Butt One More Thing]
“Bubble Butt Syndrome” sea turtle injury
https://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/-/media/OEH/Corporate-Site/Documents/Animals-and-plants/Native-animals/rescued-sea-turtles-treatment-care-guidelines-210143.pdf
https://cse.umn.edu/college/feature-stories/shoring-seemore-sea-turtles-shell
https://www.turtlehospital.org/sea-turtle-injuries/
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