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From the Vault: Thirst, Part 1

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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Drinking Water Is a Good Thing, Right?

In the natural context, maybe forging for food or pursuing reproduction might force you to get up from gaming. Like with humans, so many of us are fortunate that we never have to hunt for water. And likewise, through human civilization, we tend to have the food situation knocked as well. How these two mechanisms of thirst are instantiated in the brain is still not fully understood.

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