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And the measurement work supports it.

The CTSR scale, Goral and colleagues, PLOS, 1, 2021.

Validated on 313 Israeli adults living near Gaza, where the shelter warning time was 15 to 30 seconds.

15 seconds to get to a shelter.

It's really powerful.

There was a study I wanted to share in PLOS's Lab of Science Medicine.

It combined over 148 studies.

So it was like a meta-analysis.

Yep.

And what, well, and, and, you know, the first one that comes up is bacterial microbiome of the nose of healthy dogs and dogs with nasal disease.

Now, the listener's mother's dog [laughs] has allergies.

I don't think-

Yeah

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they have nasal disease.

I, I don't think, I don't think this is any r- any riskier than sharing a tissue with a person, honestly.

There are also individual differences in chronotype.

I'm looking here at a paper from 2017 published in PLOS ONE from Public Library of Science.

This is a paper trying to look at the distribution of chronotypes in the US population by age and sex.

The authors write, "12 years of pooled diary data were used from the American Time Use Survey.

It absolutely does.

A landmark study published in PLOS, one directly compared athletes living in real hypobaric altitude versus athletes living in normal baric altitude tents, matched for the exact same simulated elevation.

And what did they find?

They found that hypobaric hypoxia, the real mountain, triggers a distinctly harsher physiological response.

It says unpredictability causes stress.

And this was actually brought up in that PLOS One study, the one that I brought up last week, and I've made a couple posts on social media about it.

So it says unpredictability causes this stress and a dog that clearly understands what triggers a consequence and has a real way to control or avoid it does not show meaningful stress markers.

So that's not an argument against e-callers.

And then you get into the details of like how they actually measured things.

And it's like, that's kind of a very generalized statement.

But unlike the PLOS study, which I covered last week, I really, I thought that this was a well done study.

to say the least so i asked how are we measuring the cortisol here so they measured it through saliva not blood and this was their collection method they put a small amount of citric acid in the dog's mouth to stimulate saliva production then they'd collect the sample from the dog's cheek and using a cotton swab.

They held the sale as part of its current round of charity auctions.

Rumiko Takahashi said in a statement through PLOS that she hopes that the donation will help the children and I really hope so too but this is not the first time she has done this she took part in the early set of auctions that ran from March to September 2023 she provided another autographed illustration of Inuyasha which sold for 1,000,000 yen which is about $6,250 that's not bad And for those of you who don't know, Inuyasha was serialized in Shogakuken's Weekly Shonen Sunday magazine from November 96 to June 2008.

The manga inspired an anime series that ran from October 2000 to September 2004, and there was a follow-up series called Inuyasha the Final Chapter that ran from October 2009 to April 2010.

There was a sequel series called Yashihime Princess Half Demon that ran from October 2020 to March 2021.

Okay, let's hear it.

We have a late 2025 high-density EEG study published in PLOS.

One that proves balancing is a literal electrical mechanism.

It is not a metaphor.