https://www.usefulscience.org/podcast/60

This week we're talking about climate anxiety and winter sports.

Music by Solomon Krause-Imlach.

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Show Notes

• The 2021 Western North American heat dome increased climate change anxiety among British Columbians: Results from a natural experiment
• https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667278222000050#bib0024
• Association Between Ambient Heat and Risk of Emergency Department Visits for Mental Health Among US Adults, 2010 to 2019
• Climate change is predicted to make European wine regions hotter and drier, shorten the grape growing season, shift growing regions, and change wine chemistry by altering levels of alcohol, acid, and aroma.
• Only ‘one reliable host city’ will be left for Winter Olympics if global emissions are not curbed: study

http://www.usefulscience.org/podcast/21

This week we're talking about sleep.

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Show Notes

• People who slept less than 6 hours a night were 4 times more likely to catch a cold.
• Higher nighttime temperatures due to climate change are projected to disrupt summer sleep patterns, particularly for people who cannot afford air conditioning and people who are more sensitive to heat, like the elderly.
• Not sleeping enough (staying up for 17 hours straight) impaired performance in the same way as a blood alcohol level above the legal driving limit would (BAC 0.05%).

https://www.usefulscience.org/podcast/59

This week we're talking about dog ownership and gift giving.

Music by Solomon Krause-Imlach.

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Show Notes

• Dog owners have a 24% lower risk of dying early and a 31% lower risk of dying from cardiovascular disease.
• The Gift of Psychological Closeness: How Feasible Versus Desirable Gifts Reduce Psychological Distance to the Giver

https://www.usefulscience.org/podcast/58

This week we're talking about fatigue & risk management in healthcare workers.

Music by Solomon Krause-Imlach.

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Show Notes

• Association of residency work hour reform with long term quality and costs of care of US physicians: observational study
• Education Outcomes in a Duty-Hour Flexibility Trial in Internal Medicine
• Figuring in fatigue: A commentary on Schwartz et al., “Fatigue in surgical residents: An analysis of duty-hours and the effect of hypothetical naps on predicted performance”
• Addressing fatigue in medical residents with biomathematical fatigue modeling
• Trends in Strategic Napping in Surgical Residents by Gender, Postgraduate Year, Work Schedule, and Clinical Rotation
• Fatigue in surgical residents an analysis of duty-hours and the effect of hypothetical naps on predicted performance
• Biomathematical Modeling Predicts Fatigue Risk in General Surgery Residents

https://www.usefulscience.org/podcast/57

Deborah talks about two intervention programs designed to address the effects of discrimination on Black youth. Alex presents the results of the Oregon Water Futures Project, which revealed inequalities in water access throughout the state.

Music by Solomon Krause-Imlach.

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Show Notes

• Elevating Water Priorities for Oregon Communities.
• Program Profile: Adults in the Making (AIM)
• Program Profile: Strong African American Families (SAAF)
• Strong African American Families Program
• The Adults in the Making Program: Long-term Protective Stabilizing Effects on Alcohol Use and Substance Use Problems for Rural African American Emerging Adults

https://www.usefulscience.org/podcast/56

This week we're talking about racial disparities in health and medicine. Ian and Deborah present research focusing on differences in cancer treatments for Black patients in contrast to White patients, and also discuss athlete head trauma and concussion education in the US.

Music by Solomon Krause-Imlach.

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Show Notes

• Black patients in the U.S. are less likely to receive surgery as treatment for esophageal cancer, making them more likely to die from this type of cancer than white patients.
• Even though 1 in 8 women will develop breast cancer in their lifetime, survival rates have been improving over the last three decades. However, black women are still 40% more likely to die from breast cancer than white women in the U.S.
• Assessing Differences in Concussion Symptom Knowledge and Sources of Information Among Black and White Collegiate-Athletes

https://www.usefulscience.org/podcast/55

This week we're talking about neighborhood connections and green spaces.

Music by Solomon Krause-Imlach.

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Show Notes

• ‘It's real, not fake like a park’: Residents’ perception and use of informal urban green-space in Brisbane, Australia and Sapporo, Japan
• Residential relocation and change in social capital: A natural experiment from the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami

https://www.usefulscience.org/podcast/54

This week we're talking about cultural change.

Music by Solomon Krause-Imlach.

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Show Notes

• Global Increases in Individualism
• Social Structure, Infectious Diseases, Disasters, Secularism, and Cultural Change in America
• Tuning in to psychological change: Linguistic markers of psychological traits and emotions over time in popular U.S. song lyrics.
• Temporal Changes in Individualism and Their Ramification in Japan: Rising Individualism and Conflicts with Persisting Collectivism
• The Church, intensive kinship, and global psychological variation
• Large-Scale Psychological Differences Within China Explained by Rice Versus Wheat Agriculture
• Status Quo Bias in Decision Making

https://www.usefulscience.org/podcast/53

This week we're talking about food and allergies.

Music by Solomon Krause-Imlach.

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Show Notes

• When surveyed, almost 1 in 5 Americans report that they have a food allergy, but only 1 in 10 report symptoms consistent with food allergies or have received a diagnosis from a physician. This suggests that around twice as many Americans believe they have a food allergy than actually do.
• Foods that mothers eat regularly while breastfeeding are later more accepted by their infants.

https://www.usefulscience.org/podcast/52

On this episode we're joined by special guest, Erika Kirgios, whose research explores strategies for promoting prosocial behavior. Familiar hosts Avaneesh, Uyen, and Cameron discuss two of Erika's recent studies. One investigates “temptation bundling,” the process of pairing a pleasurable indulgence with a less-pleasurable behavior that confers delayed rewards in order to make it seem more appealing in the short-term. A second study demonstrates the concept of “motivation laundering,” when individuals who behave in accordance with financial incentives later forgo their monetary rewards in order to signal to others (or convince themselves) they acted out of purer motives. Erika is a researcher with The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Music by Solomon Krause-Imlach.

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Show Notes

• Teaching temptation bundling to boost exercise: A field experiment
• Forgoing earned incentives to signal pure motives

https://www.usefulscience.org/podcast/51

This week we're talking about parenting.

Music by Solomon Krause-Imlach.

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Show Notes

• Curious Neuron