Tom Scott

The Ice Bucket Challenge Lowers Your Heart Rate

S4 • E76    Aug 24, 2014    2m
The mammalian diving reflex is a quirk of evolution that means a shock of ice water does the unexpected: it lowers your heart rate. I demonstrate using not a bucket, but a bathtub. This was probably a bad idea.

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