Today you’ll learn about a new patch that uses ultrasonic waves to deliver medicine through the skin, research that debunks the myth of the ‘fast learner’, and evidence that a megaflood ended an environmental crisis in the Mediterranean more than five million years ago.

Find episode transcripts here: https://curiosity-daily-4e53644e.simplecast.com/episodes/medicine-patch-fast-learner-myth-mediterranean-mega-flood

Medicine Patch

• “Wearable Patch Can Painlessly Deliver Drugs Through the Skin.” by Anne Trafton. 2023.
  • https://news.mit.edu/2023/wearable-patch-can-painlessly-deliver-drugs-through-skin-0419
• “A Conformable Ultrasound Patch for Cavitation-Enhanced Transdermal Cosmeceutical Delivery.” by Chia-Chen Yu, et al. 2023.
  • https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adma.202300066
• “Applications of Synthetically Produced Materials in Clinical Medicine.” by Maleka P. Hashmi, et al. 2018.
  • https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/chemistry/transdermal
• “Ultrasonics.” by Richard E. Berg. n.d.
  • https://www.britannica.com/science/ultrasonics

Fast Learner Myth

• “The Myth of the Fast Learner.” by Caroline Sheedy. 2023.
  • https://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2023/march/the-myth-of-the-fast-learner
• “An astonishing regularity in student learning rate.” by Kenneth R. Koedinger. 2023.
  • https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2221311120

Mediterranean Mega Flood

• “First direct proof of mega-flood in Mediterranean Sea region.” n.a. 2023.
  • https://www.uu.nl/en/news/first-direct-proof-of-mega-flood-in-mediterranean-sea-region
• “A terminal Messinian flooding of the Mediterranean evidenced by contouritic deposits on Sicily.” by Gijs van Dijk, et al. 2023.
  • https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/sed.13074

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