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Listen in to hear how nostalgic thoughts can be a method of physical pain relief, the recent progress made in the effort to one day upload our minds to the digital world, and how getting nanoplastic out of our drinking water could be as simple as sand!

Memories can be pain free.

• \u201cScientists Find a Surprising Connection Between Nostalgia and Pain Relief\u201d by Nick Keppler
  • https://www.inverse.com/mind-body/nostalgia-pain-relief-connection
• \u201cNostalgia Can Reduce Perception of Pain, Study Shows\u201d by Lauren Kent
  • https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/28/health/nostalgia-pain-relief-study-wellness/index.html

Digital thoughts.

• \u201cCould We Really Use Science To Upload Our Minds?" by Tara Yarlagadda
  • https://www.inverse.com/science/upload-amazon-real-science
• \u201cWill We Ever Be Able to Upload Our Brains?\u201d By K. Thor Jensen
  • https://www.pcmag.com/news/will-we-ever-be-able-to-upload-our-brains
• \u201cElon Musk says humans could eventually download their brains into robots \u2014 and Grimes thinks Jeff Bezos would do it\u201d by Megan Sauer
  • https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/08/elon-musk-humans-could-eventually-download-their-brains-into-robots.html
• \u201c100 Trillion Connections: New Efforts Probe and Map the Brain's Detailed Architecture\u201d by Carl Zimmer
  • https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/100-trillion-connections/
• \u201cTed Williams Frozen In Two Pieces\u201d by Associated Press
  • https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ted-williams-frozen-in-two-pieces/

Water without plastic.

• \u201cWater Treatment Plants Would Be Ready For The Removal Of Nanoplastics\u201d by Andri Bryner
  • https://www.eawag.ch/en/news-agenda/news-portal/news-detail/water-treatment-plants-would-be-ready-for-the-removal-of-nanoplastics
• \u201cNanoplastics Removal During Drinking Water Treatment: Laboratory- And Pilot-Scale Experiments And Modeling\u201d by Gerardo Pulido-Reyesa, Leonardo Magherini, Carlo Bianco, Rajandrea Sethi, Ursvon Guntenac, Ralf Kaegi, and Denise M. Mitranod
  • https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304389422008007?via%3Dihub
• \u201cHow Does a Sand Filter Work?\u201d by Joshua Reijnen
  • https://royalbrinkman.com/knowledge-center/technical-projects/water-filter-technologies-horticulture/sand-filter
• \u201cMethodologies to Characterize, Identify and Quantify Nano- And Sub-Micron Sized Plastics in Relevant Media For Human Exposure: A Critical Review\u201d by Carlo Roberto de Bruin, Eva de Rijke, Annemarie P. van Wezel, and A. Astefanei.
  • https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2022/va/d1va00024a

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