The Ice Bucket Challenge Lowers Your Heart Rate

2014-08-24

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The mammalian diving reflex is a quirk of evolution that means a shock of ice water does the unexpected: it lowers your heart rate. I demonstrate using not a bucket, but a bathtub.

This was probably a bad idea.