SciShow: The Wonderful Reason Babies Hiccup So Much

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Content of the Lesson: Ah, hiccups. They are typically harmless, and yet also very annoying. But why do they happen in the first place? Hosted by: Michael Aranda SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Kevin Carpentier, Eric Jensen, Matt Curls, Sam Buck, Christopher R Boucher, Avi Yashchin, Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/15/well/live/why-do-we-hiccup.html https://siouxcityjournal.com/blogs/siouxland_history/150icons/icons-anthon-s-charles-osborne-had-hiccups-for-years-straight/article_3a209ebf-4ccf-5445-b325-0069a66f8224.html https://www.webmd.com/digestive-disorders/why-do-i-hiccup#1 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1388245719312362?via%3Dihub#b0210 https://adc.bmj.com/content/archdischild/65/10_Spec_No/1072.full.pdf https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2019/nov/newborn-baby-hiccups-could-be-key-brain-development https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1388245719312362?via%3Dihub#b0210 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5985305/ https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2018/nov/babies-kicking-womb-are-creating-map-their-bodies Image Sources: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interoception_and_the_body.png


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