How Feeling Sick Is Colored by Culture, The Venomous Dinosaur from Jurassic Park IRL, and All the Light Ever Produced in the Universe

Learn about how culture plays a role in feeling sick; that time scientists measured all the light in the known universe; and what Jurassic Park got wrong about the Dilophosaurus, that venomous dinosaur with the frilly collar.

Culture plays a role in feeling sick by Kelsey Donk

• Researchers study role culture plays in feeling sick. (2020). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-03/uota-rsr022720.php
• Shattuck, E. C., Perrotte, J. K., Daniels, C. L., Xu, X., & Sunil, T. S. (2020). The Contribution of Sociocultural Factors in Shaping Self-Reported Sickness Behavior. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 14. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2020.00004

Scientists Measured All the Light Ever Produced in the Universe by Ashley Hamer

• The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. (2020). Nasa.gov. https://fermi.gsfc.nasa.gov/
• A gamma-ray determination of the Universe’s star formation history. (2018). Science, 362(6418), 1031–1034. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aat8123
• Clemson scientists measure all of the starlight ever produced by the observable universe. (2018). Newsstand | Clemson University News and Stories, South Carolina. https://newsstand.clemson.edu/mediarelations/clemson-scientists-measure-all-of-the-starlight-ever-produced-by-the-observable-universe/
• The Extragalactic Background Light. (2020). Cta-Observatory.org. https://portal.cta-observatory.org/Pages/The-Extragalactic-Background-Light.aspx
• Koren, M. (2018, November 30). How Scientists Measured All the Starlight in the Universe. The Atlantic; The Atlantic. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/11/starlight-universe-blazar-galaxy/576934/

Remember the venomous dino with the frilly collar from Jurassic Park? Here's what it was really like by Grant Currin

• Stan Winston School of Character Arts. (2020). Stanwinstonschool.com. https://www.stanwinstonschool.com/blog/jurassic-park-dilophosaurus-dinosaur-puppet
• Famous “Jurassic Park” dinosaur is less lizard, more bird. (2020). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-07/uota-fp070720.php
• Marsh, A. D., & Rowe, T. B. (2020). A comprehensive anatomical and phylogenetic evaluation of Dilophosaurus wetherilli (Dinosauria, Theropoda) with descriptions of new specimens from the Kayenta Formation of northern Arizona. Journal of Paleontology, 94(S78), 1–103. https://doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2020.14

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