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James Nestor is a journalist who has written for Outside, Men's Journal, Scientific American, Dwell, National Public Radio, The New York Times, The Atlantic, San Francisco Chronicle, and others.
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I read through reams of literature on the subject. ...The problem was, the sources were hundreds, sometimes thousands, of years old.
Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art (2020)
At sixty feet... The heart beats at half its normal rate. Blood starts rushing... toward the more critical... core. ...The senses numb, the synapses slow. The brain enters a heavily meditative state.
Deep (2014)
The sperm whale's brain is about 6 times the size of ours... They've had it for 15 million year longer... We've had our current size brain around 200,000 years.
Deep dive (2017)
The doctor of speech, language pathology at Stanford... measured people who had laryngectomies... She found between 2 months and 2 years, their noses were completely blocked.
Joe Rogan Experience #1506 (2020)
I watch several more competitors... Many can't make it... They resurface with blood running... from their noses, unconscious, or in cardiac arrest. ...And somehow, this sport is legal.
Deep (2014)
He had a dolphin telephone... and he would listen in as these dolphins would have these very complex conversations...
Deep dive (2017)
We had to pay for this study... to actually measure what happens.
Joe Rogan Experience #1506 (2020)
Back in the 60s... John Lilly had a lab... dedicated to solving the dolphin communication problem...
Deep dive (2017)
But they could not crack the communication code. To do that you have to get below the surface. You have to see these animals... to gauge their behavior.
Deep dive (2017)
He... had dolphin English language immersion workshops... where... an intern [would] grant dolphins sexual favors if they learned English words, and this... worked.
Deep dive (2017)
"There are as many ways to breath as there are foods to eat," said one... instructor... Another diver told me that some methods of breathing will nourish our brains... others hasten our death.
Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art (2020)
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