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The science of spiciness - Rose Eveleth

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View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-science-of-spiciness-rose-eveleth When you take a bite of a hot pepper, your body reacts as if your mouth is on fire -- because that's essentially what you've told your brain! Rose Eveleth details the science and history behind spicy foods, giving insights into why some people continue to pay the painful price for a little spice. Lesson by Rose Eveleth, animation by Flaming Medusa Studios Inc.

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gabinoirizarry390
gabinoirizarry390 8 months, 1 week ago

3:33 that one frame, right there made me laugh harder than I ever thought I could

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daniel_wali 11 months, 3 weeks ago

2:47 .. dang, I will never be able to see the world map like I used to!

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brittany.gutierrez 3 years, 4 months ago

1:03 He's Dancing

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vasudha_khanna 3 years, 4 months ago

Ah the good memories

hannahrichardson856
hannahrichardson856 3 years, 8 months ago

The true pain of spicy food happens not where it enters the body, but where it exits 💀

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rafaél_gastélum 3 years, 9 months ago

1:40 Wow, i didn't know the shock type thing happened with some food like mustard is also comes as spicy category 🙂 Thanks for this extra information. ❤️

gabinoirizarry390
gabinoirizarry390 3 years, 9 months ago

“the pain doesn’t get any better. you just get tougher.” damn. felt that.

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normamcconnell229 4 years ago

I've been eating spicy chilli peppers for over 3 years now and I can say that I can just chew chilli pepper and like only feel a substantial amount of spiciness in it compared to what it used to before. Overall, if you overcome that spicyness, you'll actually taste the umami/sweet kinda like flavor that comes alongside it.

victoria.solano
victoria.solano 4 years ago

“The pain doesn’t get any better, you only get stronger” - story of my life

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danielleadams340 4 years, 4 months ago

Bicolanos in Philippines at 38.6°c eating pepper cousins: *It isn't hot it's delicious!*

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suzannelloyd476 4 years, 4 months ago

It's not so much that spice-lovers enjoy the pain, it's often that I can't feel the pain as much as someone else.

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meganseraph65 4 years, 4 months ago

Its damn cool that TED answers all those questions that randomly pops up every time in our mind 😌

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matthewpalmer720 4 years, 5 months ago

Me literally being killed by the *fire* ignited by a chilli on my tongue Also me after a few minutes : I wanna burn again !

howardandrews312
howardandrews312 4 years, 7 months ago

I’m seven years too late but this video was a pleasure to watch.

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luz_mireles 4 years, 7 months ago

Having worked in a tattoo shop, I can say it's fascinating the varying levels of pain tolerance people have. It never seems to be correlated to gender, race, toughness, etc., but rather attitude. I feel like this video sorta confirmed that theory but which spicy food instead.

michael.campbell
michael.campbell 4 years, 8 months ago

This was hilarious and this taught me so much!

joseph_guerrero
joseph_guerrero 4 years, 8 months ago

The animation is just so adorable!

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carrie.chambers 4 years, 8 months ago

Ted ed has been my favourite teacher of all time. Just pure un-biased information

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shawnbird242 5 years ago

0:15 I like her pronounce much cute

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andrew_montgomery 5 years ago

Chili: *is spicy as a defense mechanism Humans: ha jokes on you I'm into that sh!t