Pressure & Performance, Bone Concrete, Cancer Decline
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 935 Ratings
🗓️ 25 October 2024
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Today, you’ll learn about the brain science behind choking under pressure, a newer, tougher, stronger concrete inspired by bones, and how skin cancer rates in Sweden could offer a sign of hope.
Pressure & Performance
- “Choking under pressure: Brain neurons misfire when the stakes are highest.” by Bronwyn Thompson. 2024.
- “Research sheds new light on decreased performance under pressure.” by Sara Vaccar. 2024.
- “A neural basis of choking under pressure.” by Adam L. Smoulder, et al. 2024.
Bone Concrete
- “Tougher concrete, inspired by bone.” EurekAlert! 2024.
- “Tough Cortical Bone-Inspired Tubular Architected Cement-Based Material with Disorder.” by Shashank Gupta & Reza Moinin. 2024.
Cancer Decline
- “Breaking the trend: Skin cancer incidence in young adults declines.” EurekAlert! 2024.
- “Melanoma Incidence and Mortality Trends in Sweden.” by Hildur Helgadottir, et al. 2024.
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| 0:47.8 | Today you'll learn about the brain science behind choking under pressure, |
| 0:52.0 | a new tougher, stronger concrete inspired by bones, and how |
| 0:56.4 | skin cancer rates in Sweden could offer a sign of hope. |
| 0:59.5 | That satisfy some curiosity. |
| 1:01.7 | There's one second left on the clock clock and you're at the line about to shoot a free throw. |
| 1:06.2 | Your team is one point down. If you make one of these shots you tie. If you make both, you win. |
| 1:11.3 | If you miss them both, it's all over for you and did I mention that this is the |
| 1:16.3 | championship game is this basketball's basketball okay yeah okay, the scenario you've set up is really stressful. It seems like a pretty high-stakes situation? |
| 1:29.0 | Without question. If you're a basketball player, at least you've probably worked your entire career to get to this moment |
| 1:35.7 | Now that it's here the arena is silent and all eyes are on you. It's about as high pressure as it gets |
| 1:42.1 | And according to a new study, this is probably when you're |
| 1:45.8 | going to choke. And you have your brain to think for that. Okay, so it feels pretty intuitive, |
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