Science News: Pregnancy brain, Zoom fatigue, viruses, and... Moo Deng?

Here are five evolutionary biology and health news stories for September 23, 2024. This week, we cover: how pregnancy shrinks your brain; whether your Zoom background is making you tired; the threat of Nipah virus in India; the threat of polio in Afghanistan; and… honestly I got depressed by the last story and decided to talk about the pygmy hippo, Moo Deng. For ongoing insights into evolutionary biology and public health, stay tuned to this new weekly series. New videos every Monday. Posting on the weekend just wasn’t working.

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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Science news
00:09 Does pregnancy make you dumber?
00:58 Why does Zoom make you so tired?
02:03 One of the scariest diseases
03:09 Where is there still polio?
04:23 Moo Deng and the evolution of hippos

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LINKS AND REFERENCES:
🔴 Pregnancy brain imaging:
Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s4159...
Press release: https://www.universityofcalifornia.ed...
Pop sci summary: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckg...
Pop sci summary: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/16/he...

🔴 Zoom fatigue
Original article: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/...
Pop sci summary: https://www.sciencealert.com/experime...

🔴 Nipah virus in India
CIDRAP note: https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/nipah/indi...
Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/world/india/o...
Amazing Reuters article about the 2018 Nipah outbreak: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/...
Forbes article with good info about future treatments/vaccines: https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertha...
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Lancet Infectious Disease note about music video thanking healthcare workers and celebrating end of 2018 outbreak: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/la...
“Bye Nipah" music video that totally slaps:    • Bye Nipah | Malayalam Musical Video | കോഴി...  
CDC Nipah page: https://www.cdc.gov/nipah-virus/about...

🔴 Taliban stops polio vaccination in Afghanistan:
https://apnews.com/article/afghanista...
https://www.theguardian.com/global-de...
Report from Jan 2022 on state of polio in Afghanistan: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/la...
Polio Global Eradication Initiative: https://polioeradication.org/about-po...
Fake Hep B vaccine campaign for Osama bin Laden: https://www.npr.org/2021/09/06/103463...

🔴 Moo Deng
https://www.nature.com/articles/s4142...
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/...
Pygmy hippo researcher talking about them, prompted by Moo Deng: https://slate.com/life/2024/09/hippo-...

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