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  • Yeah, About That Phosphine on Venus...

    Learn about the surprising memory skills of infants; why that whole “phosphine on Venus” discovery may not be as exciting as we thought; and how medical science answered Molyneux's problem, a 300-year-old philosophy question.

    3-year-olds can recognize a person they met once when they were 1 year old by Kelsey Donk

    • The amazing durability of infant memory: Three-year-olds show recognition of a person they met once at age one. (2014, March 17). Research Digest; Research Digest. https://digest.bps.org.uk/2014/03/17/the-amazing-durability-of-infant-memory-three-year-olds-show-recognition-of-a-person-they-met-once-at-age-one/
    • Kingo, O. S., Staugaard, S. R., & Krøjgaard, P. (2014). Three-year-olds’ memory for a person met only once at the age of 12months: Very long-term memory revealed by a late-manifesting novelty preference. Consciousness and Cognition, 24, 49–56. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2013.12.011

    That whole "phosphine on Venus" discovery, suggesting life? That probably wasn't phosphine after all by Cameron Duke

    • Lincowski, A. P., Meadows, V. S., Crisp, D., Akins, A. B., Schwieterman, E. W., Arney, Giada N, Wong, M. L., Steffes, P. G., Niki, P. M., & Domagal-Goldman, S. (2021). Claimed detection of PH$_3$ in the clouds of Venus is consistent with mesospheric SO$_2$. ArXiv.org. https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.09837

    Medical Science Has Answered This 300-Year-Old Philosophy Question by Reuben Westmaas

    • Study of Vision Tackles a Philosophy Riddle (Published 2011). (2021). The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/26/health/research/26blind.html
    • Degenaar, M., & Lokhorst, G.-J. (2017). Molyneux’s Problem (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). Stanford.edu. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/molyneux-problem/
    • Held, R., Ostrovsky, Y., de Gelder, B., Gandhi, T., Ganesh, S., Mathur, U., & Sinha, P. (2011). The newly sighted fail to match seen with felt. Nature Neuroscience, 14(5), 551–553. https://doi.org/10.1038/nn.2795

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    12 min
  • Why Can’t You Hold Your Breath to Death?

    Learn about why you can’t suffocate by holding your breath; how being angry makes you more likely to believe misinformation; and that time scholars tried to kick Latin out of English, thanks to words like honorificabilitudinitatibus.

    Why can't you suffocate by holding your breath? by Ashley Hamer (Listener question from Daniel in Beirut)

    • Parkes, M. J. (2005). Breath-holding and its breakpoint. Experimental Physiology, 91(1), 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1113/expphysiol.2005.031625
    • Parkes, M. J. (2012). The Limits of Breath Holding. Scientific American, 306(4), 74–79. https://doi.org/10.1038/scientificamerican0412-74

    Being angry makes you more likely to believe misinformation by Kelsey Donk

    • Dolan, E. W. (2021, January 8). A new study has found being angry increases your vulnerability to misinformation. PsyPost; PsyPost. https://www.psypost.org/2021/01/a-new-study-has-found-being-angry-increases-your-vulnerability-to-misinformation-59061
    • Han, J., Cha, M., & Lee, W. (2020). Anger contributes to the spread of COVID-19 misinformation. Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review. https://doi.org/10.37016/mr-2020-39
    • Greenstein, M., & Franklin, N. (2020). Anger increases susceptibility to misinformation. Experimental Psychology, 67(3), 202–209. https://doi.org/10.1027/1618-3169/a000489

    16th-Century Scholars Once Tried to Kick Latin Out of English by Arika Okrent

    • Specktor, B. (2017, October 2). Shakespeare’s Longest Word Is a Whopping 27-Letters Long. Reader’s Digest; Reader’s Digest. https://www.rd.com/article/shakespeares-longest-word/
    • BERLIN, R. L. G. (2014, January 28). Johnson: What might have been. The Economist; The Economist. https://www.economist.com/prospero/2014/01/28/johnson-what-might-have-been

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    14 min
  • Quadruple-Helix DNA Is a Thing

    Learn about how quadruple-helix DNA could help us fight cancer; how diversity improves technology, with materials scientist Ainissa Ramirez; and how cats domesticated themselves.

    Quadruple-helix DNA exists - and it might be useful for fighting cancers by Cameron Duke

    • Rare quadruple-helix DNA found in living human cells with glowing probes. (2021). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-01/icl-rqd011321.php
    • Researchers Observe Formation of Four-Stranded DNA in Living Human Cells | Biology, Genetics | Sci-News.com. (2020). Breaking Science News | Sci-News.com. http://www.sci-news.com/biology/dna-g-quadruplexes-human-cells-08693.html
    • Scientists Discover Quadruple Helix DNA in Human Cells | Genetics | Sci-News.com. (2013). Breaking Science News | Sci-News.com. http://www.sci-news.com/genetics/article00835.html
    • Summers, P. A., Lewis, B. W., Gonzalez-Garcia, J., Porreca, R. M., Lim, A. H. M., Cadinu, P., Martin-Pintado, N., Mann, D. J., Edel, J. B., Vannier, J. B., Kuimova, M. K., & Vilar, R. (2021). Visualising G-quadruplex DNA dynamics in live cells by fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy. Nature Communications, 12(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20414-7

    Additional resources from Ainissa Ramirez:

    • Pick up "The Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another" on Amazon: https://amzn.to/2MyB4l8
    • Ainissa's website: https://www.ainissaramirez.com/
    • Ainissa Ramirez on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ainissaramirez

    In True Feline Fashion, Cats Domesticated Themselves by Anna Todd

    • Ottoni, C., et. al. (2017). The palaeogenetics of cat dispersal in the ancient world. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 1(7). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-017-0139
    • Smith, C. (2017, June 19). Cats Domesticated Themselves, Ancient DNA Shows. National Geographic News. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2017/06/domesticated-cats-dna-genetics-pets-science/

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    14 min
  • Scientists Finally Know How Sandcastles Work

    Learn about why we still don’t know how eels reproduce and how scientists solved a 150-year-old question about how sandcastles hold together.

    We still don't know how eels reproduce by Grant Currin

    • TED-Ed. (2020). No one can figure out how eels have sex - Lucy Cooke [YouTube Video]. In YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFi6ISTjkR4
    • Epic Eel Migration Mapped for the First Time. (2015, October 27). National Geographic News. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/10/151027-american-eel-migration-animal-behavior-oceans-science/
    • 100-year-old mystery solved: Adult eel observed for the first time in the Sargasso Sea. (2015). ScienceDaily. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/10/151027132839.htm

    Scientists have solved a 150-year-old equation that governs how sandcastles hold together by Grant Currin

    • Ouellette, J. (2020, December 9). Physicists solve 150-year-old mystery of equation governing sandcastle physics. Ars Technica; Ars Technica. https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/12/physicists-solve-150-year-old-mystery-of-equation-governing-sandcastle-physics/
    • Pakpour, M., Habibi, M., Møller, P., & Bonn, D. (2012). How to construct the perfect sandcastle. Scientific Reports, 2(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/srep00549
    • Yang, Q., Sun, P. Z., Fumagalli, L., Stebunov, Y. V., Haigh, S. J., Zhou, Z. W., Grigorieva, I. V., Wang, F. C., & Geim, A. K. (2020). Capillary condensation under atomic-scale confinement. Nature, 588(7837), 250–253. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2978-1

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    11 min
  • How to Know You’re Running Low on Vitamins

    Learn about how to tell when your body is running low on key vitamins; how Neanderthals mourned their dead; and why you should NOT pre-rinse your dishes before putting them in the dishwasher.

    Ways Your Body Tells You You're Running Low on Key Vitamins by Stephanie Bucklin

    • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Environmental Health, & Division of Laboratory Sciences. (2012). CDC’s Second Nutrition Report: A comprehensive biochemical assessment of the nutrition status of the U.S. population Report measures 58 indicators of diet and nutrition New report uses NHANES results. https://www.cdc.gov/nutritionreport/pdf/4page_%202nd%20nutrition%20report_508_032912.pdf
    • Migala, J. (2018, October 9). 10 Ways Your Body Is Telling You You’re Running Low on Key Vitamins. The Healthy; The Healthy. https://www.thehealthy.com/nutrition/signs-of-vitamin-deficiencies/
    • Elizabeth Shimer Bowers. (2017, October 13). 7 Common Nutrient Deficiencies | Everyday Health. EverydayHealth.com. https://www.everydayhealth.com/hs/guide-to-essential-nutrients/common-nutrient-deficiencies/
    • Vitamins for a Dry Scalp | Livestrong.com. (2010, December 2). LIVESTRONG.COM. https://www.livestrong.com/article/323187-vitamins-for-a-dry-scalp/
    • CDC. (2020, December 3). Micronutrient Facts. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. https://www.cdc.gov/nutrition/micronutrient-malnutrition/micronutrients/index.html?CDC_AA_refVal=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cdc.gov%2Fimmpact%2Fmicronutrients%2Findex.html

    Neanderthals buried their dead by Grant Currin

    • New evidence: Neandertals buried their dead. (2020). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-12/c-nen120920.php
    • Balzeau, A., Turq, A., Talamo, S., Daujeard, C., Guérin, G., Welker, F., Crevecoeur, I., Fewlass, H., Hublin, J.-J., Lahaye, C., Maureille, B., Meyer, M., Schwab, C., & Gómez-Olivencia, A. (2020). Pluridisciplinary evidence for burial for the La Ferrassie 8 Neandertal child. Scientific Reports, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-77611-z

    You Shouldn't Rinse Your Dishes Before Putting Them in the Dishwasher by Ashley Hamer first aired June 3, 2018 https://omny.fm/shows/curiosity-daily/how-to-wash-your-dishes-british-vs-american-englis

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    13 min
  • What Getting Chills from Music Says About Your Brain

    Learn about a surprising benefit of adding humor to the news; what getting chills from music says about your brain; and how Volta’s electric eels that hunt in packs.

    Young adults are more likely to remember and share news delivered with humor by Kelsey Donk

    • New Study Finds that Delivering the News with Humor Makes Young Adults More Likely to Remember and Share | Annenberg School for Communication. (2021). Upenn.edu. https://www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/news/new-study-finds-delivering-news-humor-makes-young-adults-more-likely-remember-and
    • Coronel, J. C., O’Donnell, M. B., Pandey, P., Delli Carpini, M. X., & Falk, E. B. (2020). Political Humor, Sharing, and Remembering: Insights from Neuroimaging. Journal of Communication. https://doi.org/10.1093/joc/jqaa041

    What Getting Chills from Music Says About Your Brain by Reuben Westmaas

    • Sachs, M. E., Ellis, R. J., Schlaug, G., & Loui, P. (2016). Brain connectivity reflects human aesthetic responses to music. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 11(6), 884–891. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsw009
    • Colver, M. (2016, May 25). If You Get Chills While Listening to Music, You Might Be a More Open and Emotional Person. Slate Magazine; Slate. https://slate.com/technology/2016/05/getting-chills-when-listening-to-music-might-mean-youre-a-more-emotional-person.html
    • McCrae, R. R. (2007). Aesthetic Chills as a Universal Marker of Openness to Experience. Motivation and Emotion, 31(1), 5–11. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11031-007-9053-1

    Electric eels hunt in packs, and scientists are shocked by Steffie Drucker

    • Roth, A. (2021). Electric Eels Hunt in Packs, Shocking Prey and Scientists. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/14/science/electric-eels-hunting-pack.html
    • Moutinho, S. (2021, January 14). Shocking discovery: Electric eels hunt in packs in Amazon rivers. Science | AAAS. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/01/shocking-discovery-electric-eels-hunt-packs-amazon-rivers
    • Bastos, D. A., Zuanon, J., Rapp Py‐Daniel, L., & Santana, C. D. (2021). Social predation in electric eels. Ecology and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7121

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    13 min
  • The Sun 2.0, “Fresh” Food Fallacies, and Is Math Universal?

    Learn about an artificial sun from KSTAR that’s hotter than our actual sun; whether math really is a universal language; and what words like “fresh” really tell you about how fancy your food is.

    South Korean researchers created an artificial sun that's hotter than our actual sun by Grant Currin

    • Korean artificial sun sets the new world record of 20-sec-long operation at 100 million degrees. (2020, December 24). Phys.org. https://phys.org/news/2020-12-korean-artificial-sun-world-sec-long.html
    • Nield, D. (2020). South Korea’s “Artificial Sun” Just Set a New World Record For High-Temperature Plasma. ScienceAlert. https://www.sciencealert.com/south-korea-s-artificial-sun-just-set-a-new-world-record-for-high-temperature-plasma
    • Tala, T., & Garbet, X. (2006). Physics of Internal Transport Barriers. Comptes Rendus Physique, 7(6), 622–633. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crhy.2006.06.005
    • Delbert, C. (2020, December 28). Korea’s Artificial Sun Just Ran for 20 Astonishing Seconds. Popular Mechanics; Popular Mechanics. https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a35084113/korea-artificial-sun-fusion-reactor-runs-for-20-seconds/
    • Tokamak. (2015). ITER. https://www.iter.org/mach/Tokamak
    • Home: 28th IAEA Fusion Energy Conference (FEC 2020) | IAEA. (2019, December 6). Iaea.org. https://www.iaea.org/events/fec-2020

    Is math really a universal language? by Ashley Hamer (Listener question from John)

    • PBS Idea Channel. (2013). Is Math a Feature of the Universe or a Feature of Human Creation? | Idea Channel | PBS [YouTube Video]. In YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbNymweHW4E
    • Baidou, Alain. (2006). Briefings on Existence. State University of New York Press. https://s3.amazonaws.com/arena-attachments/769564/8b787039810debb75794401980b224d6.pdf
    • Madden, J. J., Lakoff, G., & Núñez, R. E. (2002, August). Where Mathematics Comes From: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics Into Being. ResearchGate; Mathematical Association of America. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/239547225_Where_Mathematics_Comes_From_How_the_Embodied_Mind_Brings_Mathematics_Into_Being
    • Thaller, M. (2019, March 7). The evolution of mathematics, from agriculture to quantum mechanics. Big Think; Big Think. https://bigthink.com/videos/mathematics-universal-language

    What Words Like "Fresh" Really Tell You About How Fancy Your Food Is by Arika Okrent

    • Jurafsky, D. (2014). The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu. W. W. Norton & Company. https://amzn.to/3rgRJbY

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    15 min
  • What Science Says About Putting 2 Spaces After a Period

    Learn about how clocks and lightbulbs changed human health, with author and materials scientist Ainissa Ramirez. Plus: learn about that time a bunch of birds became milk bottle thieves and whether you should put one or two spaces after a period.

    The time a bunch of birds became milk bottle thieves by Cameron Duke

    • Aplin, L. M., Farine, D. R., Morand-Ferron, J., Cockburn, A., Thornton, A., & Sheldon, B. C. (2014). Experimentally induced innovations lead to persistent culture via conformity in wild birds. Nature, 518(7540), 538–541. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature13998
    • Aplin, L. M., Sheldon, B. C., & Morand-Ferron, J. (2013). Milk bottles revisited: social learning and individual variation in the blue tit, Cyanistes caeruleus. Animal Behaviour, 85(6), 1225–1232. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2013.03.009
    • Boogert, N. (2014, December 4). Milk bottle-raiding birds pass on thieving ways to their flock. The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/milk-bottle-raiding-birds-pass-on-thieving-ways-to-their-flock-34784

    Should You Put One or Two Spaces After a Period? by Cody Gough

    • Hamblin, J. (2018, May 11). The Atlantic. The Atlantic; theatlantic. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/05/two-spaces-after-a-period/559304/
    • Johnson, R. L., Bui, B., & Schmitt, L. L. (2018). Are two spaces better than one? The effect of spacing following periods and commas during reading. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 80(6), 1504–1511. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-018-1527-6
    • Douglas, N. (2018, May). No, You Still Shouldn’t Put Two Spaces After a Period. Lifehacker; Lifehacker. https://lifehacker.com/no-you-still-shouldnt-put-two-spaces-after-a-period-1825662114

    More from Ainissa Ramirez:

    • Pick up "The Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another" on Amazon: https://amzn.to/2MyB4l8
    • Ainissa's website: https://www.ainissaramirez.com/
    • Ainissa Ramirez on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ainissaramirez

    Subscribe to Curiosity Daily to learn something new every day with Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer. You can also listen to our podcast as part of your Alexa Flash Briefing; Amazon smart speakers users, click/tap “enable” here: https://www.amazon.com/Curiosity-com-Curiosity-Daily-from/dp/B07CP17DJY

     

    Find episode transcript here: https://curiosity-daily-4e53644e.simplecast.com/episodes/what-science-says-about-putting-2-spaces-after-a-period

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    13 min
  • What Would Happen If You Stopped Time?

    Learn about how sleep may have evolved before the brain; why airports keep birds of prey on staff; and what would happen if you stopped time.

    Sleep might have evolved before the brain by Cameron Duke

    • Kanaya, H. J., Park, S., Kim, J., Kusumi, J., Krenenou, S., Sawatari, E., Sato, A., Lee, J., Bang, H., Kobayakawa, Y., Lim, C., & Itoh, T. Q. (2020). A sleep-like state in Hydra unravels conserved sleep mechanisms during the evolutionary development of the central nervous system. Science Advances, 6(41), eabb9415. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abb9415
    • Pappas, S. (2017, July 18). Why Do We Sleep? Livescience.com; Live Science. https://www.livescience.com/32469-why-do-we-sleep.html
    • staff, S. X. (2021, January 8). Which came first, sleep or the brain? Medicalxpress.com; Medical Xpress. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-01-brain-1.html

    Airports Keep Birds of Prey on Staff to Protect Planes by Ashley Hamer

    • FAA Wildlife Strike Database. (2021). Faa.gov. https://wildlife.faa.gov/home
    • Frequently Asked Questions and Answers. (2020, August 28). Faa.gov. https://www.faa.gov/airports/airport_safety/wildlife/faq/
    • Bliss, L. (2016, May 26). Meet the Falcons Keeping North American Runways Safe. Bloomberg.com; Bloomberg. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-05-26/great-big-story-video-shows-how-falcons-work-as-airplane-bird-strike-mitigation
    • Haje Jan Kamps. (2017, January 7). This flappy bird-drone keeps airports safe. TechCrunch; TechCrunch. https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/07/is-it-a-bird-is-it-a-plane-well-it-is-a-drone-actually/

    What Would Happen If You Stopped Time? by Ashley Hamer originally aired September 7, 2018 https://omny.fm/shows/curiosity-daily/what-would-happen-if-you-stopped-time-secret-room

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    12 min
  • When to Worry About COVID-19 Variants

    Learn about what's going on with the new COVID-19 variants — and whether you should worry about them — with Dr. Syra Madad, nationally recognized epidemiologist and the senior director of the pathogens program at NYC Health and Hospitals. Then, learn about a new theory on how our planets formed.

    Additional resources from Dr. Syra Madad and #ConqueringCOVID:

    • Official website https://scty.org/syra
    • Follow @SyraMadad on Twitter https://twitter.com/syramadad
    • The Vaccine: Conquering COVID https://press.discovery.com/us/sci/programs/vaccine-conquering-covid/
    • Start your 7-day free trial of discovery+ https://discoveryplus.com/curiosity

    New theory on how our planets formed by Grant Currin

    • How our planets were formed. (2021). Ethz.ch. https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2021/01/how-our-planets-were-formed.html
    • Lichtenberg, T., Dra̧żkowskaJ., Schönbächler, M., Golabek, G. J., & Hands, T. O. (2021). Bifurcation of planetary building blocks during Solar System formation. Science, 371(6527), 365–370. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abb3091

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    16 min

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