Mike Carruthers

There's a new adaptation of that book for kids called smart.

Use your eyes to boost your brain.

And there's a link to both of those books in the show notes.

Thank you, Amy for thank you for being here.

Here's a topic I know you have some interest in and some experience with.

The topic is pain.

We all have felt pain and pain doesn't feel very good.

However, it turns out to be a very interesting topic because when you understand pain, there are some interesting things that can happen.

Here to explain how pain works is Dr. Anish Singla.

He is a physician who specializes in treating pain.

He serves on the physician faculty at Harvard Medical School, and he is author of a book called Why It Hurts, a physician's insights on the purpose of pain.

Hi, doctor.

Welcome to Something You Should Know.

Well, it's not one of my favorite topics.

It's one of my least favorite topics because I only think about pain when I'm feeling it and I don't like feeling it.

And I don't imagine most people do.

So when you cut yourself with a knife by accident, and I cut myself the same way, do we both feel the same thing?

Or could it be that you have a different pain sensation of tolerance, whatever, that you don't feel the same thing even though we suffer the same injury?

Can you...

actually convince people that something doesn't hurt?