Curiosity Weekly

Today, you’ll learn about why our ability to remember things seems to get worse with age—it’s not memory loss, which animals could become the new dominant species in the event of our extinction, and how an unsupportive romantic partner can actually affect the way you think and feel about yourself.

Maybe your mom was right about cleaning your room.

• “How Memory ‘Clutter’ Makes it Harder to Remember Things as we Get Older” by Alexander Easton
  • https://theconversation.com/how-memory-clutter-makes-it-harder-to-remember-things-as-we-get-older-176767
• “Memory Issues for Older People Could be the Result of ‘Clutter’” by Sarah Sloat
  • https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/memory-issues-older-people-result-clutter-rcna15133

The next era for animals.

• “When humans are gone, what animals might evolve to have our smarts and skills?” by Joanna Thompson
  • https://www.livescience.com/what-animals-will-fill-human-niches
• “Can introduced animals replace extinct ones?” by Brigitte Osterath
  • https://www.dw.com/en/can-introduced-animals-replace-extinct-ones/a-16937417

Couples therapy may in fact help your brain.

• “Having an unsupportive romantic partner is associated with neurophysiological changes in error processing” by Eric W. Dolan
  • https://www.psypost.org/2022/04/having-an-unsupportive-romantic-partner-is-associated-with-neurophysiological-changes-in-error-processing-62977
• “Unsupportive romantic partner behaviors increase neural reactivity to mistakes” by Erin N Palmwood
  • https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0167876021008886

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Calli and Nate interview members of The Explorers Club, and today you’re going to hear from a man who largely represents what The Explorers Club is all about - Josh Gates. Josh Gates is a fearless explorer and adventurer and host of Discovery's popular, long running series Expedition Unknown. He's also hosting a brand new series that chronicles the incredible history of the club, called Tales from The Explorers Club.

• Interview conducted with Josh Gates on 5/3/22.

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Today, you’ll learn about how cultures across the world often make constellations from the same groups of stars due to the nature of vision and perception, what to do when an animal tries to steal your food during a picnic on the beach, and drones smaller than a red blood cell that can be controlled using only the power of light.

Does your star pattern look like my star pattern?

• “Constellations Across Cultures: How Our Visual Systems Pick Out Patterns in the Night Sky” from the Association for Psychological Science
  • https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/releases/2022-march-constellations-across-cultures.html
• “Perceptual Grouping Explains Similarities in Constellations Across Cultures” by Charles Kemp, Duane W. Hamacher, Daniel R. Little, and Simon J. Cropper
  • https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09567976211044157
• “The Big Dipper (the Plough)”
  • https://nineplanets.org/the-big-dipper
• The Astronomical League
  • https://www.astroleague.org/content/constellations-other-cultures-checklist

Staring contests really do work.

• "Stare at Seagulls and They'll Leave Your Food Alone” by Mindy Weisberger
  • https://www.livescience.com/staring-at-seagulls-stops-stealing.html
• “Stare seagulls out to save your snacks, researcher says” by Ian Sample
  • https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/aug/07/stare-seagulls-out-to-save-your-snacks-researcher-says
• “Staring down seagulls can stop them stealing your chips” by Sam Wong
  • https://www.newscientist.com/article/2212592-staring-down-seagulls-can-stop-them-stealing-your-chips/
• “Herring gulls respond to human gaze direction” by Madeleine Goumas
  • https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2019.0405

Sun doesn’t just give plants life, but drones, too.

• “Microdrones With Light-driven Nanomotors” By Universitat Wurzburg
  • https://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/news-and-events/news/detail/news/licht-motoren-fuer-mikrodrohnen-1/
• “Light-Driven Motors Power Tiny Drones” By Patricai Daukantas
  • https://www.optica-opn.org/home/newsroom/2022/april/light-driven_motors_power_tiny_drones/
• “Polarization” by The Physics Classroom
  • https://www.physicsclassroom.com/class/light/Lesson-1/Polarization#:~:text=Polarized%20light%20waves%20are%20light,of%20methods%20of%20polarizing%20light

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Today, you’ll learn about how the human sense of smell may be much better than we ever thought, how the bones inside your body are having interesting conversations with your organs, and a new innovation in desalination technology that uses significantly less energy than its predecessors.

What’s that smell?

• “Let’s obliterate the myth that humans have a bad sense of smell” by Brian Resnick
  • https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/5/11/15614748/human-smell-good-science
• “Mechanisms of scent-tracking in humans” by Jess Porter et Brent Craven, Rehan M Khan, Shao-Ju Chang, Irene Kang, Benjamin Judkewitz, Jason Volpe, Gary Settles & Noam Sobel
  • https://www.nature.com/articles/nn1819
• “Humans Can Discriminate More than 1 Trillion Olfactory Stimuli” by C. Bushdidm, O. Magnascol, B. Vosshalland, and A. Keller
  • https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1249168
• “Poor human olfaction is a 19th-century myth” by John P. Mcgann
  • https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.aam7263

Your body talks without talking.

• “How Bones Communicate With the Rest of the Body” by Amber Dance
  • https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-bones-communicate-with-the-rest-of-the-body-180979643/
• “Bones make hormones that communicate with the brain and other organs” by Cassie Martin
  • https://www.sciencenews.org/article/bones-make-hormones-communicate-brain-and-other-organs
• “Bone-to-Brain: A Round Trip in the Adaptation to Mechanical Stimuli” by Laura Gerosa and Biovanni Lombardi
  • https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphys.2021.623893/full#:~:text=Thus%2C%20bone%20emerges%20as%20a,act%20at%20the%20brain%20level.

Water with salt on the side, please.

• “Modular Solar PV and Tidal Power Desalination Buoys from Canada” by Ryan Kennedy
  • https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2022/04/11/modular-solar-pv-and-tidal-power-desalination-buoys-from-canada/
• “Wave-Powered Desalination Buoys” by Solar Impulse Foundation
  • https://solarimpulse.com/solutions-explorer/wave-powered-desalination-buoys\

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Today, you’ll learn about the benefits of shading rooftop gardens with solar panels, caffeine’s dark secrets, and how the first image from the James Webb telescope promises a great run for Hubble’s successor.

The sun really can feed you.

• “Your Rooftop Garden Could Be a Solar-Powered Working Farm” by Matt Simon
  • https://www.wired.com/story/your-rooftop-garden-could-be-a-solar-powered-working-farm/
• “Exploring The Potential of Rooftop Agrivoltaics” by Jennifer Bousselot and Thomas Hickey, Jr.
  • https://livingarchitecturemonitor.com/articles/potential-rooftop-agrivoltaics-sp22
• “Volunteer State (Finally) Discovers Solar Power — With A Regenerative Twist” by Tina Casey
  • https://cleantechnica.com/2022/04/04/volunteer-state-finally-discovers-solar-power-with-a-regenerative-twist/

Caffeine: the ultimate chicken or the egg dilemma.

“The invisible addiction: is it time to give up caffeine?” by Michael Pollan

• https://www.theguardian.com/food/2021/jul/06/caffeine-coffee-tea-invisible-addiction-is-it-time-to-give-up

“Caffeine: How much is too much?” by Mayo Clinic Staff

• https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/nutrition-and-healthy-eating/in-depth/caffeine/art-20045678#:~:text=Caffeine

“Caffeine - Uses, Side Effects, And More” from WebMD

• https://www.webmd.com/vitamins/ai/ingredientmono-979/caffeine#:~:text=Caffeine

“How and When Did Humans Start Consuming Alcohol?” by Sedeer el-Showk

• https://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/accumulating-glitches/how_and_when_did_humans/#:~:text=According

“Coffee and caffeine consumption and depression: A meta-analysis of observational studies” by Longfei Wang, Xiaoli Shen, Yili Wu, and Dongfeng Zhang 

• https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26339067/

A picture might be worth more than a thousand words.

• “1st image snapped by iconic Webb telescope pushes limits of the 'laws of physics'” by Tom Metcalfe
  • https://www.livescience.com/james-webb-telescope-image-limits-of-physics
• ““Better than our most optimistic prediction” – first images from James Webb exceed all expectations” by Jamie Priest
  • https://cosmosmagazine.com/space/james-webb-telescope-first-images/
• “About Webb Orbit” By NASA
  • https://webb.nasa.gov/content/about/orbit.html

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Today, you’ll learn about a new process that can make cells younger by up to thirty years, the incredible artificial intelligence that is helping piece together the puzzles of ancient texts, and how researchers have developed a rapid test for viruses like coronavirus that is just as accurate as PCR tests and takes only thirty minutes.

The fountain of youth may be closer than we think.

• “‘Time Jump’ by 30 Years: Old Skins Cells Reprogrammed To Regain Youthful Function” by Babraham Institute
  • https://scitechdaily.com/time-jump-by-30-years-old-skins-cells-reprogrammed-to-regain-youthful-function/
• “Multi-Omic Rejuvenation of Human Cells by Maturation Phase Transient Reprogramming” by Diljeet Gill, et al.
  • https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.71624
• “Aging Changes in Organs - Tissue - Cells” by Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
  • https://www.mountsinai.org/health-library/special-topic/aging-changes-in-organs-tissue-cells

The overlap between artificial intelligence and the ancient world.

• “DeepMind’s new AI model helps decipher, date, and locate ancient inscriptions” By James Vincent
  • https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/9/22968773/ai-machine-learning-ancient-inscriptions-texts-deepmind-ithaca-model
• “Radiocarbon Dating” by Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit
  • https://c14.arch.ox.ac.uk/dating.html#:~:text=For%20radiocarbon%20dating%20to%20be,or%20left%20as%20a%20residue.
• “A New A.I. Can Help Historians Decipher Damaged Ancient Greek Texts” by Jane Recker
  • https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a-new-ai-can-help-historians-decipher-damaged-ancient-greek-texts-180979736/
• “AI could decipher gaps in ancient Greek texts, say researchers” by Nicola Davis
  • https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/mar/09/ai-could-decipher-gaps-in-ancient-greek-texts-say-researchers

Turns out some things can actually be good, fast, and cheap.

• “UT Dallas researchers develop accurate rapid test for viruses” By EurekaAlert
  • https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/950413
• “UT Dallas Researchers Create High-Accuracy Rapid Virus Test” by Marin Wolf
  • https://www.govtech.com/education/higher-ed/ut-dallas-researchers-create-high-accuracy-rapid-virus-test

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Today, you’ll learn about some incredible new surfing technology that makes the sport possible even if you don’t live near the ocean, why the lab-grown meat industry needs to be beefed up to solve food system problems, and how the link between multiple sclerosis and the Epstein-Barr virus is leading to potential treatments for the illusive and damaging MS.

Turns out you don’t need an ocean to surf.

• “The innovative surfing tech making waves” by Richard Bainbridge
  • https://www.bbc.com/news/business-60689501
• “Reports on How Things Work: Hydrofoils” by MIT
  • https://web.mit.edu/2.972/www/reports/hydrofoil/hydrofoil.html

Fake meat. Yum.

• “Lab-grown meat is supposed to be inevitable. The science tells a different story” by Joe Fassler
  • https://thecounter.org/lab-grown-cultivated-meat-cost-at-scale/
• “Want People to Eat Less Meat? Fake Burgers Probably Won’t Cut It.” by Charlie Mitchell
  • https://www.motherjones.com/food/2021/08/want-people-to-eat-less-meat-fake-burgers-probably-wont-cut-it/
• “The Myth of Cultured Meat: A Review” by Sghaier Chriki and Jean-Francois Hocquette
  • https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnut.2020.00007/full

Sharing is caring. Especially when it comes to medical treatments.

• “MS Reversed by Transplanted Immune Cells That Fight Epstein-Barr Virus” by Michael Le Page
  • https://www.newscientist.com/article/2315586-ms-reversed-by-transplanted-immune-cells-that-fight-epstein-barr-virus/
• “MS Symptoms Improved by Treatment That Attacks Glandular Fever Virus” by Alice Klein
  • https://www.newscientist.com/article/2186387-ms-symptoms-improved-by-treatment-that-attacks-glandular-fever-virus/
• “Molecular Signature of Epstein-Barr Virus Infection in MS Brain Lesions” by Monica A. Moreno, et al.
  • https://doi.org/10.1212/NXI.0000000000000466
• “Clonally Expanded B Cells in Multiple Sclerosis Bind EBV EBNA1 and GlialCAM” by Tobias V. Lanz, et al.
  • https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-04432-7
• “Types of MS” by National Multiple Sclerosis Society
  • https://www.nationalmssociety.org/What-is-MS/Types-of-MS

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Today, you’ll learn about how your brushing routine may not be the biggest factor in whether or not you get cavities, how a new method of building pharmaceutical production facilities may bring medical access to previously underserved regions, and how the discovery of a plastic-eating bacteria could revolutionize the recycling industry.

Brush but STILL get cavities? You’re not alone (and brushing isn’t enough). 

“Why People Who Brush Still Get Cavities” by Maggie Koerth

• https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-people-who-brush-still-get-cavities/

“How Can You Get Cavities If You Brush Your Teeth?” by davis & Beyer Dental Health Professionals

• https://www.venicedentist.com/how-can-you-get-cavities-if-you-brush-your-teeth

“History of Sugar” from Wikipedia

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_sugar

BioNTech is now making vaccines on the go. 

“BioNTech plans to make vaccines in shipping containers” by The Economist

• https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/biontech-plans-to-make-vaccines-in-shipping-containers/21807708

“BioNTech Covid vaccine plan to ship container labs to Africa” By Jenny Hill

• https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60400114

“____-Eating Bacteria” is now nothing to fear! It could be the future of recycling.

“The Future of Recycling May Be in Microbes” by Ula Chrobak

• https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/future-recycling-may-be-microbes-180979645/

“Scientists uncover the secrets of a plastic-destroying enzyme” by Abe Musselman

• https://www.inverse.com/innovation/enzyme-helps-bacteria-eat-plastic

“Plastic-eating bacteria: Genetic engineering and environmental impact” by Scott Dutfield 

• https://www.livescience.com/plastic-eating-bacteria

"Endlessly recyclable materials could fix our plastic waste crisis" by Katharine Sanderson

• https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25333763-000-endlessly-recyclable-materials-could-fix-our-plastic-waste-crisis/

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Today, you’ll learn about how doctors may have accidentally confirmed that our lives do flash before our eyes just before death, the scientists aiming to legitimize art and music therapy as treatment for mental trauma and how scientists are pulling diamonds out of thin air! ... Essentially.

Your life flashing before your eyes isn’t just a thing in movies. It’s real. 

 

• “Life may actually flash before your eyes on death - new study” by Holly Honderich
  • https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-60495730
• "Brain Scans of Dying Man Suggest Life Flashes Before Our Eyes Upon Death" by Corryn Wetzel
  • https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/brain-scans-suggest-life-flashes-before-our-eyes-upon-death-180979647/
• “When are we really dead? New study sheds light” by Hannah Flynn
  • https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/when-are-we-really-dead-new-study-sheds-light#Accidental-discovery
• “Louisville neurosurgeon marvels at the first-ever recording of a dying human brain” by WDRB Media
  • https://www.wdrb.com/news/louisville-neurosurgeon-marvels-at-the-first-ever-recording-of-a-dying-human-brain/article_86c632c4-94f2-11ec-85ff-afaa97f1d9cf.html
• “What is an E-E-G?” by Johns Hopkins Medicine
  • https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/treatment-tests-and-therapies/electroencephalogram-E-E-G
• “The Debate over Severed Heads: Doctors, the Guillotine and the Anatomy of Consciousness in the Wake of the Terror” by Grégoire Chamayou
  • https://www.cairn-int.info/article-E_RHS_612_0333--the-debate-over-severed-heads.htm

We don’t understand it yet, but art and music therapy work wonders. 

NPR’s audio and written stories on the matter

• “Art and music therapy seem to help with brain disorders. Scientists want to know why”
  • https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1081263873 (audio)
  • https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/02/19/1081263873/mental-health-art-therapy (written)

Stop mining for diamonds! Just pull them out of thin air. 

• "A startup is sucking CO2 from the sky and making diamonds. No more mining?” by Can Emir
  • https://interestingengineering.com/co2-diamonds
• “THIS DIAMOND COMPANY WANTS TO HELP CARBON CAPTURE TAKE OFF” by Maddie Stone
  • https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/2/22951332/aether-diamonds-carbon-capture-air-climate-change
• “Diamonds Created Out Of Thin Air Sounds Like Magic. Aether Is Doing It.” by Pamela N. Danziger
  • https://www.forbes.com/sites/pamdanziger/2022/03/04/diamonds-created-out-of-thin-air-sounds-like-magic-aether-is-doing-it/?sh=35d41ce341b1
• “Made-from-CO2 concrete, lululemons and diamonds spark investor excitement” by Jane Lanhee Lee and Nia Williams
  • https://www.reuters.com/business/sustainable-business/made-from-co2-concrete-lululemons-diamonds-spark-investor-excitement-2021-10-04/
• NRDC on human breath carbon emissions
  • https://www.nrdc.org/onearth/waiting-exhale

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Today, you’ll learn about why studying human intimacy in space is necessary for humanity, the mysterious sixth sense human beings have, which is not seeing dead people, and how researchers used artificial intelligence to figure out a way to speak pig.

Scientists say: we really do need to talk about sex in space. 

• “Inside the push to study sex in space” by Mark Hay
  • https://www.mic.com/life/sex-in-space-research-space-sexology
• “Let’s talk about sex — in space” by Marie Sina
  • https://www.dw.com/en/lets-talk-about-sex-in-space/a-59202194
• "Scientists say we really have to talk about boning in space” by Victor Tangermann
  • https://futurism.com/the-byte/scientists-sex-space
• "Nasa probing people having sex in space" by Anugraha Sundaravelu
  • https://metro.co.uk/2022/03/10/nasa-probing-people-having-sex-in-space-16250830/

Humans have a sixth sense, and it’s not seeing dead people. 

• "The silent “sixth” sense” by Brian Resnick
  • https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/11/22/20920762/proprioception-sixth-sense
• “What Is Proprioception?” on WebMD
  • https://www.webmd.com/brain/what-is-proprioception
• "Proprioception: Making Sense of Body Position" by Leython Williams, PT, DPT
  • https://www.sports-health.com/sports-injuries/general-injuries/proprioception-making-sense-body-position
• “Improve Balance, Control, and Coordination with These 10 Proprioception Exercises” by Katey Davidson, MScFN, RD, CPT
  • https://www.healthline.com/health/fitness/proprioception-exercises#exercises

Do you speak pig? You could, soon. 

• “When Pigs Cry: Tool Decodes the Emotional Lives of Swine” by Corinne Purtill
  • https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/09/science/pigs-oinks-grunts.html
• "Researchers Figure Out How to Interpret Pig Grunts as Pig Emotions” by Amanda Kooser
  • https://www.cnet.com/science/biology/researchers-figure-out-how-to-interpret-pig-grunts-as-pig-emotions/
• “Pig sounds translated into emotions for first time in new study” by Newsround?
  • https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/60652151
• “Pigs' grunts reveal how they're feeling, new analysis says” by Tom Metcalfe
  • https://abcnews.go.com/US/pigs-grunts-reveal-feeling-analysis/story?id=83551570
• Britain’s proposed animal sentience law
  • https://www.parliament.uk/business/news/2021/june/lords-discuss-key-areas-of-animal-welfare-sentience-bill/

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