Made It & Mosquitos

What luxury says "you made it"? Dangerous Dave looks at a list that includes designer purses and walk in closets. Plus, mosquitos may be getting use to deet, what is next?

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Please step deeper in the den with dangerous day. Well
rich people take you to their garage and show you
their luxury sports car, or take you out for joey rides.
Middle class people take you to the garage and show
you their second refrigerator, and then they all tell you
how they saved for it and now they've finally made it.
A new survey asked people to rank the biggest modern

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status symbols. You may have one or two of them,
or maybe you have all of them to show that
you've really made it. Things making the list a high
end watch, have one, don't wear it, luxury handbag, my
wife has one, the latest iPhone, hot tubber pool, designer shoes,
walk in closet, designer clothing, electric vehicle, or outdoor kitchen.

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All on the list signs that you've made it. Outdoor
pizza oven also made it at top twenty. High end wine, fridge,
home bar, fancy exercise bike, robot, vacuum cleaner, and actual
art all making that list. Now, I assume when they
say art is not the signs that you got that
say eat or family or laugh or the pink Floyd

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poster that I've had since college. Anyway, for what it's worth.
Thirty seven percent of people said status symbols have become
less important as they grow older, nineteen percent and bought
something to impress other people rather than just wanting it
for themselves. Twenty two percents that they feel proud having
their status symbol items. You know what funny thing is
when I say yep, I made it usually means the

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mess deeper in the two. Have you ever found yourself
attracted to something that's supposed to be off putting, like
body odor, or gasoline or even skunk smell? Well, mosquitos
can relate. New research shows mosquitoes can actually learn to
love the presence of deet, one of the most common
insect repellents. Scientists conducted lab experiments where they successfully reversed
the mosquito's aversion to the chemical even made them more

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willing to approach humans Wearing deet sounds like the problem
was using too much, like overusing a medication can make
it less effective. In the study, researchers were able to
condition mosquitoes to aid blood meals with date, so when
they were hungry, they immediately sought out the smell of
it seems to a preferred deeate treated arm over an
unsprayd arm. How does it work outside the lab? Well?

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A possible real world situation mosquito butting somebody applied deep
long ago. But if the deat is low, could be
possible for mosquito to still bite and learn to associate
the deep with the possible obtaining a blood meal. You
don't need to worry about deet attracting mosquitoes to you, yet,
one researcher said, still the gold standard of mosquito repellents.

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Our work is important reminder to carefully read manufacturer's recommendations
regarding dosage application frequency and keep those products as effective
as possible. What are researchers doing trying to make mosquitoes
attracted to dat? What is wrong with these blood suckers?
To me again for another episode of Deeper in the
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