How GPS Quietly Runs the World & When Illness Has No Obvious Cause
6/29/202647 min
Ever notice when you hear someone talking on the phone nearby it’s hard not to listen? You are only hearing one-side of the conversation and that can drive your brain crazy. It’s not just annoying and distracting it can actually be dangerous. https://now.uiowa.edu/news/2017/06/ui-study-explores-why-cell-phone-use-leads-distracted-driving
It’s hard to imagine life without GPS. But now it has become so woven into daily life that most of us never think about it. We use it to navigate, order food, track packages, find rides, locate our phones and even synchronize financial transactions. Yet GPS wasn't created for that. It began as a military technology and evolved into one of the most important—and expensive—infrastructure systems ever built. How does GPS actually know where you are? Why is it free to use? Who pays for it? Is it spying on you? Here to explain is Katherine Dunn, business reporter, editor and author of the book Little Blue Dot: How GPS Shaped the Modern World (https://amzn.to/4uvtk2M).
Why is it that millions of people experience chronic pain, fatigue, digestive problems and other ailments that doctors and medical tests often fail to explain? Too often they're told "it's all in your head." But according to psychiatrist Susan Trachman, that phrase badly misunderstands what's happening. The connection between the brain and body is far more powerful than most people realize. Thoughts, emotions and stress can trigger genuine physical symptoms—and understanding how can be the key to finding relief. Susan has spent more than 30 years treating medically unexplained illnesses. She is author of the popular Psychology Today blog and the book It's Not Just in Your Head. (https://amzn.to/4oqvjDP)
Listen to a tennis match or walk through a gym and you'll hear it everywhere: grunting. Sometimes really loud grunting. It seems odd. Maybe even unnecessary. So why do athletes do it? Is it habit? Showmanship? Or is there something else going on? https://www.womenshealthmag.com/fitness/a64691561/grunting-power-output-study/
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Mike Carruthers· Host0:27
Then, the fascinating story of GPS and things about it you may not know Our day-to-day experience with GPS is Google Maps, navigating around, but what the satellites also provide is they have atomic clocks, so they're providing extremely accurate time to clocks that are not very good, like the one in my iPhone Also, why do tennis players and weightlifters grunt so loudly? And when you know you're sick but the doctor can't find anything wrong, it can be really discouraging, and it happens to a lot of people Who go from doctor to doctor, and when the physician cannot come up with a diagnosis, they might say to the patient, "We really can't find anything wrong with you.
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It's all in your head. Go see a psychiatrist," which is how they end up in my office All this today on Something You Should Know Bienvenue à bord de VIA Rail.
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