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Orangu-slang, Easing Car Queasing, Kicked Across Space


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Today, you’ll learn about how orangutans use slang a lot like we do, what causes and can alleviate everyday motion sickness, and how one black hole kicked another across the galaxy.

Orangutans are dope.

  • “Orangutans use Slang to Show off Their “Coolness”, Study Suggests" by Nicola Davis
    • https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/mar/21/orangutans-use-slang-to-show-off-their-coolness-study-suggests
  • “Orangutan Squeaks Reveal Language Evolution Says Study" by Victoria Gill
    • https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-38907681
  • “What did Language Grow From? Ape Hands, Mouths, or Both? – Kristen Marie Gillespie-Lynch, Emily Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, Heidi Lyn, and Patricia Greenfield
    • https://kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frym.2019.00061
  • “Apes Communicate, Humans Have Language" by Max Planck Institute
    • https://www.cbs.mpg.de/research-topics/language-interview

A solution beyond not looking at your phone.

  • “How To Fight Motion Sickness — And The Scientific Reason Some People Suffer More” By Saima Rajasingam
    • https://www.inverse.com/mind-body/motion-sickness-treatment
  • “A study of cybersickness and sensory conflict theory using a motion-coupled virtual reality system” by Adrian K.T. Ng, Leith K.Y. Chan, Henry Y.K. Lau
    • https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0141938218300301

Soccer but with black holes.

  • “Gravitational waves gave a new black hole a high-speed ‘kick’” By Emily Conover
    • https://www.sciencenews.org/article/black-hole-gravitational-waves-kick-ligo-merger-spacetime
  • “A black hole formed by a lopsided merger may have gone rogue” By Robert Lea
    • https://www.space.com/black-hole-escaping-galaxy-from-collision
  • “Ripples in spacetime: Science's 2016 Breakthrough of the Year” by Adrian Cho
    • https://www.science.org/content/article/ripples-spacetime-sciences-2016-breakthrough-year
  • “How Scientists Captured the First Image of a Black Hole” by Ota Lutz
    • https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/news/2019/4/19/how-scientists-captured-the-first-image-of-a-black-hole/
  • “What is an Interferometer?” by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory
    • https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/page/what-is-interferometer

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