Aging & Colors, First Continents, Phones & Infant Health
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Show Notes
Today, you’ll learn about how we experience colors differently as we age, a discovery from the time of the very first continents on Earth, and the impact of mobile phones on infant health - it’s not what you might expect.
Aging & Colors
- “Colours fade as people age.” UCL. 2024.
- “Pupil responses to colorfulness are selectively reduced in healthy older adults.” By Janneke E. P. van Leeuwen, et al. 2023.
First Continents
- “Researchers uncover source rocks of the first real continents.” The University of British Columbia. 2024.
- “Tonalite-Trondhjemite-Granodiorite.” by Herve Martin & Nicholas Arndt. Reference work entry. N.d.
- “What was it like when life first sprang forth on Earth?” by Ethan Siegel. 2024.
- “Archaean continental crust formed from mafic cumulates.” by Matthijs A. Smit, et al. 2024.
Phones & Infant Health
- “How does owning a mobile phone impact infant health?” McGill University. 2024.
- “Mobile phones and infant health at birth.” by Luca Maria Pesando & Komin Qiyomiddin. 2023.
- “Prevalence of low birth weight and its associated factors: Hospital based cross sectional study in Nepal.” by Pratibha Thapa, et al. 2022.
- “National, regional, and worldwide estimates of low birthweight in 2015, with trends from 2000: a systematic analysis.” by Hannah Blencowe, et al. 2019.
- “Low birth weight.” World Health Organization. N.d.
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