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    Curiosity WeeklyNormalcy Bounces Back Quickly in Times of Stress and the Female Astronauts of the Mercury 13
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    Learn about how people under stress can find a “new normal” surprisingly quickly, and why the Mercury 13 should have been the first women in space.

    Even under stress, our sense of normalcy bounces back surprisingly quickly by Kelsey Donk

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    © Warner Bros. DiscoveryLength 8 min1 September 2020ScienceFactsEducationalCultureUSAEpisodic

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    Learn about how people under stress can find a “new normal” surprisingly quickly, and why the Mercury 13 should have been the first women in space.

    Even under stress, our sense of normalcy bounces back surprisingly quickly by Kelsey Donk

    Sense of normalcy bounces back fast: New study. (2020). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-07/uom-son072920.phpAnicich, E. M., Foulk, T. A., Osborne, M. R., Gale, J., & Schaerer, M. Getting Back to the “New Normal”: Autonomy Restoration during a Global Pandemic. https://www.newswise.com/pdf_docs/159604834166888_COVID-19%20Stress%20and%20Autonomy%20JAP%20-%20ACCEPTED%20VERSION.pdfThe Mercury 13 Should Have Been the First Women in Space by Reuben Westmaas

    Looking Back: The Mercury 7. (2011). NASA. https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_157.htmlKat Eschner. (2017, June 16). Meet the Rogue Women Astronauts of the 1960s Who Never Flew. Smithsonian Magazine; Smithsonian Magazine. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/meet-american-women-who-trained-space-1960s-180963704/Potenza, A. (2018, May 29). We fact-checked Mercury 13, Netflix’s doc about NASA’s first women astronaut trainees. The Verge; The Verge. https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/29/17393698/netflix-documentary-mercury-13-women-space-astronauts-margaret-weitekamp-interviewSubscribe 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

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