How Sneezing Works
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What is the significance of sneezing in humans and animals?
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But hey, no one's perfect. We're pretty close, though. Listen to the Nick Dick and Paul show on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Spring is so many wonderful things, trees budding, flowers blooming, getting to wear straw hats. But for a lot of people, it also means a miserable season of allergies. And sneezing is the poster child for allergies. Let's just admit it. So we chose our episode on sneezing so we can at least help you understand what the heck is going on with your face, even if we can't cure you. We wish we could. So seal all the doors and the windows and kick back with this episode.
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Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. There's Charles W. Chuck Bryan over there. Jerry is a disembodied spirit, but she's still with us, haunting us. And we are now set up for achievement, which means this is stuff you should know. Set up for achievement? This sounds like a very 80s Reagan era campaign. It does. It definitely does. Certainly not the kind of thing that would irritate you, whether it be in your nose or your brain or anywhere. Not the best segue, huh? I'm surprised you didn't try and work sternutation in there somehow. I love that word. Were you familiar with that word before? I don't think, you know, I'm 49 years old. I don't think I'd ever heard sneezing being called sternutation.
Oh, man, I just remembered I'm 44 now. So you got me beat, but I'm in the same boat with you. Yeah, I never heard that, but that is what, if you're a scientist, well, if you're a scientist and you want to be real stiff, you probably say sternutation. If you're a scientist that wants to be friends with people, you'll still probably say sneezing. I mean, it sounds super clinical, but it's actually really old. I think the first appearance of it is in a text from 1576. It sounds old. To me, it sounds clinical, but there's also a couple derivative words. Sternutative or sternutatory are things that make you sneeze. And Howard Stern, bubba booey.
Right.
A chewy. So we're talking sneezing, obviously, because we just discoursed on sternutation. I'm adding an extra syllable there, aren't I? Sternutation. That's the Josh Clark way. Why do I have to complicate things? We're talking about sneezing. And sneezing is a really...
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–1:10
2
What is the significance of sneezing in humans and animals?
1:10–5:14
3
How does the human body initiate a sneeze?
5:14–7:21
4
What role do nasal passages play in sneezing?
7:21–14:09
5
What triggers the sneeze reflex in the body?
14:09–21:47
6
How fast can a sneeze travel and what are its effects?
21:47–26:39
7
What are some common myths about sneezing?
26:39–30:48
8
How does culture influence the way we respond to sneezing?
30:48–58:48
Speakers
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