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Official page of Today I Learned Science by Dr. Harini Bhat (PharmD).
'A Prescription for the Curious Mind.'
2023 Telly Award Winner | Anthem Awards | WCSFP Emerging Producer | 2024 Webby Honoree
Currently Host for PBS Origins

20/08/2026

Jo Cameron was discovered in 2019 to have a genetic mutation that makes her feel virtually no pain OR stress. Her case led to the discovery of the FAAH-OUT gene involved in pain signals, mood and memory

Now her case is being used to hopefully find better pain alternatives but for me it led me down a left field rabbit hole of the truth of how Michael Jackson really died. And let me tell you I was waaaay off. He didn’t die of a drug overdose. It had everything to do with pain. That video drops next week on my YT channel. If you’re an MJ fan, don’t miss this episode!

18/08/2026

As if we needed another reason why the female body is SO utterly magical and powerful. This is actually so bonkers cool. I love science.

Study: Blood-induced biomineralized calcium carbonate used for binding in the Huashan rock art of Guangxi, Southern China, Wu et al.

17/08/2026

We actually have news on MH370 and it’s not insignificant

There’s potential new clues that have quite literally surfaced from hydrophones that were in the water continuously recording ocean sounds the night MH370 went missing in the Southern Indian Ocean

If MH370 hit the water, either via crashing or ditching effort, it should have been recorded via these hydrophones.

This could be the lead we’ve been looking for or another bust. Only time will tell.

14/08/2026

The B.T. Woman is the only case of its kind as far as we know.

After an accident she woke up completely blind. Her eyes were physically fine but her brain’s visual centers were damaged and was diagnosed with cortical blindness. She lived that way for 15 years.
Then while she was in therapy for a completely unrelated diagnosis of Dissociative Identity Disorder, which is where you have multiple identities, she discovered that one of her 10 identities could see.

Eventually, doctors found that 8 of her 10 identities could see perfectly fine while only 2 stayed blind. And the switch between “blind” and “sighted” could happen in seconds.

Doctors ran visual evoked potential tests electrodes, which read the brain’s electrical response to a flickering pattern in real time. You can’t consciously fake this or “trick” the machine like with a lie detector test. In her sighted identities there was a clean, healthy signal. In her blind ones, nothing just a flatline. Same brain, minutes apart.

This is a single case report, and DID is genuinely debated in psychiatry, so take this as one data point, but it suggests something intriguing…that our brains may be able to filter in and out what reaches our conscious awareness far more than we thought.

13/08/2026

Say it with me now, menstrual blood is NOT like regular blood. Not even close. Menstrual fluid has all kinds of proteins and compounds and cells inside it that makes it much more environmentally richer than regular smegular blood, ya feel me?

Science is finally waking up to the powerful medical potential in period blood and if you want the deep dive into all of this then go check out my latest YT video all about the power of period blood or comment PERIOD to get the video link sent to you directly!

11/08/2026

Incredible news that the Pan Am Endeavor wreckage has been found just before the 75th anniversary of the incident that claimed 52 lives

The same team that found Endeavor feel that if a plane wreck from 70+ years ago could be found with modern day technology then so can MH370

And the timing couldn’t be better, Malaysia just extended their contract with Ocean Infinity for another year to find MH370 on a no find no fee basis

Could this finally be the year we get answers?

06/08/2026

That door close button you keep pressing 100x? It’s not broken, it’s the ADA.

Happy 36th anniversary to the ADA and all the people who made sure the ADA exists! Full story in the video

05/08/2026

98% of body parts are named after men and all female anatomy (except one) is named after men.

Watch the full deep dive into this, the origins of the taboo of period blood and how we are now finally learning the POWER of period blood live on my YT channel now!

The way we name women’s anatomy has been shaped by centuries of shame and male dominance. The anatomical term for v***a (pudendum) comes from the Latin word “pudere” which means “to be ashamed”. From Fallopian tubes to the G-**ot, the impact of this naming is still weighing on women today. As a result, nearly 50% of women believe their genitalia look abnormal in some way.

Medical gender bias runs deep. There’s now a push for medical schools to stop using medical eponyms (or a discovery etc named after a person) and instead use the anatomically accurate descriptions.

We may not change medical terminology overnight but at least we can now recognize it & think twice about whose POV shaped the language we inherited.

Did you know this?

04/08/2026

This is the world’s first ever anatomically correct FEMALE crash test dummy and it’s a long time coming 🥲

Astrid Linder, a motor vehicle safety engineer, showed the world at a press conference in 2018 that no car manufacturer is using anatomically correct female crash test dummies. They’re all scaled down male dummies. As a result, there is zero car safety data for women.

Linder vowed to develop the first one at that conference and now she has delivered on that promise.

But there’s a slight catch. 👆

This isn’t the first time women’s health and safety has taken literal decades to be taken seriously. Watch our full episode on the incredible healing powers of period blood on our YT channel now’s

03/08/2026

Why do we even have a period? If you think about it, it’s technically a waste of precious biological resources to build up the endometrium every month for a potential baby that may or may not arrive. Humans are one of the only few mammals that menstruate every month too. So why has evolution preserved this process?

Scientists actually don’t know the definitive answer for why we menstruate but there are a few theories.

This video is just a snippet of our longer video on YT all about the power of period blood!

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