This week, we investigate one of the more complicated, fraught, mysterious, and downright unpleasant ways we and lots of other living things navigate the world: pain.

From headaches to scorpion stings, there's lots of ways to get hurt, but is anything as painful as Hank's Liam Neeson impression? Let's find out!

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[Trivia Question]

Walking on LEGOs

https://science.discoveryplace.org/blog/ever-wonder-why-it-hurts-when-you-step-on-a-lego-brick

https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/469467-farthest-distance-walking-on-lego-bricks

[Fact Off]

Bees making motivational trade-off based on pain & sugar

https://www.science.org/content/article/bees-may-feel-pain

https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2205821119

Grasshopper mice block pain from scorpion venom

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1236451

https://www.nature.com/articles/nrn3404

https://brill.com/view/journals/beh/99/3-4/article-p275_5.xml?language=en

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0003347205004318

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izizsAodOCk

[Ask the Science Couch]

Pain modulation & inhibition (with other pain or distraction)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jL9GgdsyHtA

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0987705320301465

https://journals.lww.com/pain/Citation/2014/04000/Pain_modulation_profile_and_pain_therapy__Between.5.aspx

https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-26882/v3

https://journals.lww.com/painrpts/Fulltext/2022/06000/Conditioned_pain_modulation_is_associated_with.10.aspx

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7689692/

[Butt One More Thing]

“Bubble Butt Syndrome” sea turtle injury

https://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/-/media/OEH/Corporate-Site/Documents/Animals-and-plants/Native-animals/rescued-sea-turtles-treatment-care-guidelines-210143.pdf

https://cse.umn.edu/college/feature-stories/shoring-seemore-sea-turtles-shell

https://www.turtlehospital.org/sea-turtle-injuries/