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Learn about why air curtains blast you with air when you walk into certain stores; microbes that survive in the desert by dissolving rocks with acid; and the latest research into how we learn, with help from renowned cognitive neuroscientist Stanislas Dehaene. That blast of air when you walk into a business has a name: an air curtain by Grant Currin Ashish. (2018, March 21). Air Curtain Door At Entrance: Why There Is A Blast Of Air At Mall’s Entrance? Science ABC. https://www.scienceabc.com/eyeopeners/why-is-there-a-blast-of-coldhot-air-at-the-entrances-of-shopping-malls.html  Air Curtains 101 | What is an Air Curtain? | Berner. (2020, May 28). Berner. https://berner.com/air-curtains-101/  ‌L. Wang, Investigation of the Impact of Building Entrance Air Curtain on Whole Building Energy Use, Air Movement and Control Association, 2013, p. 57. https://www.amca.org/assets/resources/public/userfiles/file/Energy%20Initiative%20Web%20Pages/Air%20Curtain%20Study(1).pdf Scientists discover microbes that survive in the desert by dissolving rocks with acid by Grant Currin Levy, M. G. (2020, May 8). Extreme microbes survive the desert by dissolving rocks with acid. Massive Science. https://massivesci.com/articles/microbes-desert-extremophiles-atacama-rocks-gypsum-mars/  ARADS Project Designs Tools for Finding Signs of Life. (2018). NASA. https://www.nasa.gov/ames/arads  Huang, W., Ertekin, E., Wang, T., Cruz, L., Dailey, M., DiRuggiero, J., & Kisailus, D. (2020). Mechanism of water extraction from gypsum rock by desert colonizing microorganisms. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(20), 10681–10687. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2001613117  Govert Schilling. (2015, July 22). An Astronomer’s Paradise, Chile May Be the Best Place on Earth to Enjoy a Starry Sky. Smithsonian Magazine; Smithsonian Magazine. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/star-trekking-chile-astronomy-180955798/  Additional resources from Stanislas Dehaene: Pick up “How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine...for Now” on Amazon https://amzn.to/2Y6ZWnz  uniad. (2016). LAB. UNICOG - Cognitive Neuroimaging Lab. http://www.unicog.org/  Collège de France faculty bio https://www.college-de-france.fr/site/en-stanislas-dehaene/presentation.htm Follow @StanDehaene on Twitter https://twitter.com/StanDehaene  Stanislas Dehaene on Google Scholar https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=2Dd5uoIAAAAJ&hl=en  Subscribe to Curiosity Daily to learn something new every day with Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer. You can also listen to our podcast as part of your Alexa Flash Briefing; Amazon smart speakers users, click/tap “enable” here: https://www.amazon.com/Curiosity-com-Curiosity-Daily-from/dp/B07CP17DJY  See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information.