Your Brain On Pollution

Hosts: Max, Issy, and Gabe (and Maximillian) Timestamps and Links: 00:00 - Intro to Know Idea 01:55 - 715 Health Check w/ Gabe 04:06 - Paraborg Cybug Swarm w/ Gabe 11:42 - Highway Pollution and Cognition w/ Max 19:09 - 'One Size Fits Small' w/ Issy 24:40 - Support 4zzz! 26:41 - MotoRap w/ The Max’s 36:38 - REWIND: Beached by Alzheimers w/ Peta from Oct 17 2025 - ±3 Papaya Party Prizes 47:43 - Defining Pristimantis w/ Gabe 55:44 - Space News w/ Max Science Links For the Diggers: Look For New Science at EurkAlert, Science Daily, and Phys.org For Free Science Article Search 'Sci-Hub' or Anna’s Archive Check out the QS Rankings yourself here Our Tik Tok, Instagram, and YouTube Produced and recorded by Max for Know Idea at 4zzz in Fortitude Valley, Meanjin/Brisbane Australia on Turrabul and Jaggera Country. Podcast audio and cover image edited by Tobi for Creative Broadcasters Limited and distributed by 4zzz Podcasts (@4zzzpodcasts). Image Credit: Figure 2: A - Overview of the terrestrial cyborg cockroach and its integrated hardware. The paramedic cockroach is equipped with compact components, including an AIM module for in situ drug-delivery, flexible pads and a PCB for electrical stimulation, and a LiPo battery powering both the AIM and PCB for wireless operation H. N. Le, P. T. Phan, L. Fitzgerald, P. R. McAree, T. N. Do, and T. T. Vo-Doan, "Paraborg: Paramedic Cyborg Insects for In Situ Emergency Drug-Delivery.” Advanced Science (2026): e76973. https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.76973 Figure 1: C - Live individual of P. latidiscus QCAZ-A 32128 from San Francisco, Durango road, Esmeraldas Province. Photographs of types in dorsal, ventral, and lateral views (from left to right). Note scapular ridges in both holotypes (arrows) and similarity of ventral pattern between the holotype of P. subsigillatus and P. latidiscus QCAZ-A 32128. Ron SR, Paredes-Aguirre P, Paucar DA, López Y, Apunte K, Ortega JA (2026) Long overdue: a new, widespread, species of Pristimantis (Anura, Strabomantidae) from the Chocó region and the synonymy of Pristimantis subsigillatus. ZooKeys 1286: 121-152. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1286.194383 Sound Effects Attributed to: 13148 tape deck rewinding by Robinhood76 -- https://freesound.org/s/797690/ -- License: Attribution NonCommercial 4.0 Turntable Rewind by hydroxian -- https://freesound.org/s/753665/ -- License: Creative Commons 0 Reverse vinyl scratch / warp by al_sub -- https://freesound.org/s/647161/ -- License: Creative Commons 0 Reel-to-Reel Tape Recorder Rewind + Stop‎ - 26 November ‎2011, ‏‎11:55:32 P.M. by crz1990 -- https://freesound.org/s/135871/ -- License: Attribution 4.0