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Notre Dame Stories highlights the work and knowledge of the University's faculty and students. This podcast features interviews with Notre Dame faculty members who can lend insight into some of the major national and international stories of the day, as well as pieces that show the breadth of the life and research at the University. Notre Dame Stories is the official podcast of the University of Notre Dame. Language: en Genres: Education Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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Cold Plunges and Unicorns
Friday, 6 February, 2026
What can extreme cold teach us about the human body—and ourselves? In this episode, Director of the Human Energetics Laboratory and anthropologist Cara Ocobock takes listeners inside her research on human adaptation, from subzero fieldwork in Finland with reindeer herders to lab studies on metabolism, cold exposure, and hunting unicorns. She also unpacks popular cold-plunge trends, what science actually says about them, and how lessons from our ancestors can help us understand resilience, wellness, and the remarkable ways humans have survived across time. Show links: Episode page The Winter Olympics, equality in sports, and exercising in the cold ‘Woman the hunter’: Studies aim to correct history Women’s higher resting metabolic rates in cold environments could be thyroid requirements for pregnancy, researcher says
