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A surgeon's brilliant approach to kids spares them the fear of their surgeries
When a brilliant surgeon combines superheroes and kids, fear doesn't stand a chance. Plus, two stories of the power of music to alter our minds, a view from space that might make you think you took something to alter yours, and a toddler that is all of us.
Greg Sullivan
September 24, 2025 • Est. Reading Time: 7 minutes
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“A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
In this issue...
When things get tough, superheroes suit up!
Batman isn’t afraid of the operating room and, thanks to Dr. Leandro B. Guimarães, neither are his young patients.
As Mark Wales reports, the Brazilian surgeon has found a simple, heart-melting way to ease children’s fears before surgery: he gives them a cape, a mask, and a mission. What started with lessons from hospital clowning (that’s a thing?) has become a powerful practice; kids walk or even fly into the OR as Batman, The Flash, or whichever hero they choose, turning fear into play.
Which movie doctor would you trust with your health?If your surgeon has to be fictional, who are you trusting with the scalpel? |
Image of the day
Astronaut and man-I-want-to-be-when-I-grow-up Scott Kelly captured this image of the northern lights from the ISS.
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Ryan takes us back to the moment Radiohead cracked open his world.
Our resident music expert, Ryan Reed, wasn’t your stereotypical fifth grader. He was the “good kid” in school, but already felt out of place in his small, conservative town. Then one night, a surreal video flickered across his TV and he heard Paranoid Android for the first time. The song’s chaos, beauty, and strangeness didn’t just entertain him, it gave him a lifeline.
That moment shaped him as a writer, a critic, and a fan. And science suggests there’s a reason it stuck so deep: our teenage brains are wired to cement those early listening experiences into memory. Psychologists even have a term for it, “preference consolidation”, which is why a random track from your high school mixtape can still floor you decades later.
This is more than nostalgia. It’s biology, history, and identity colliding every time we hit play.
Beats, bars, and the ABCs.
I could have filed this story 20 minutes ago, but I was too busy chanting “DO YOU KNOW YOUR LETTER SOUNDS… IT’S ABOUT TO GO DOWN” along with this teacher’s class. A viral video shows her turning the alphabet into a full-on hype track, beats, dance moves, and call-and-response that goes way harder than it has any right to.
The kids? Locked in. Reddit? Losing it. (One commenter begged for the Spotify drop.) And as Mark Wales reports, science is on her side, singing and movement don’t just make learning fun, they wire kids’ brains to actually remember better.
Also, someone get this woman a record deal.
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💬 From the group text…
Little girl… SAME. Same same same!
Until tomorrow, may your surgeons have real degrees and your music alter your brain the way you want it to.