Curiosity Weekly

Why Cuttlefish Wore 3-D Glasses for Science


Listen Later

Learn about why your next relationship will probably be like your last one; what scientists learned by studying the oldest material on Earth; and what researchers learned when they had cuttlefish wear 3-D glasses.

Why Your Next Relationship Will Probably Be Like Your Last by Kelsey Donk

  • Changing partners doesn’t change relationship dynamics, study shows. (2019). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-08/uoa-cpd082719.php
  • Johnson, M. D., & Neyer, F. J. (2019). (Eventual) stability and change across partnerships. Journal of Family Psychology, 33(6), 711–721. https://doi.org/10.1037/fam0000523

Scientist Discovered the Oldest Material on Earth by Grant Currin

  • WMAP- Life and Death of Stars. (2010). Nasa.Gov. https://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/universe/rel_stars.html
  • Meteorite contains the oldest material on Earth: 7-billion-year-old stardust. (2020). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-01/fm-mct010820.php
  • This ancient stardust is the oldest ever to be examined in a lab. (2020, January 13). Science News. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ancient-meteorite-stardust-oldest-ever-examined-lab
  • 7 billion-year-old stardust is the oldest stuff on Earth. (2020, January 13). The Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2020/01/13/seven-billion-year-old-stardust-is-oldest-stuff-earth/
  • Heck, P. R., Greer, J., Kööp, L., Trappitsch, R., Gyngard, F., Busemann, H., Maden, C., Ávila, J. N., Davis, A. M., & Wieler, R. (2020). Lifetimes of interstellar dust from cosmic ray exposure ages of presolar silicon carbide. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(4), 1884–1889. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1904573117

Why Scientists Put Cuttlefish in 3-D Glasses by Grant Currin

  • Yes, This Cuttlefish Is Wearing 3-D Glasses. (2020, January 8). The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/08/science/3d-glasses-cuttlefish.html
  • Cuttlefish use depth perception similar to vertebrate vision when hunting prey. (2020). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-01/aaft-cud010620.php

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://curiosity.im/podcast-flash-briefing

 

Find episode transcript here: https://curiosity-daily-4e53644e.simplecast.com/episodes/why-cuttlefish-wore-3-d-glasses-for-science

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

...more
View all episodesView all episodes
Download on the App Store

Curiosity WeeklyBy Discovery

  • 4.6
  • 4.6
  • 4.6
  • 4.6
  • 4.6

4.6

915 ratings


More shows like Curiosity Weekly

View all
TED Radio Hour by NPR

TED Radio Hour

22,031 Listeners

Radiolab by WNYC Studios

Radiolab

44,009 Listeners

Freakonomics Radio by Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher

Freakonomics Radio

32,269 Listeners

Hidden Brain by Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam

Hidden Brain

43,717 Listeners

BrainStuff by iHeartPodcasts

BrainStuff

1,650 Listeners

Big Picture Science by Big Picture Science

Big Picture Science

940 Listeners

Science Vs by Spotify Studios

Science Vs

12,081 Listeners

Discovery by BBC World Service

Discovery

975 Listeners

Science Friday by Science Friday and WNYC Studios

Science Friday

6,434 Listeners

Something You Should Know by Mike Carruthers | OmniCast Media

Something You Should Know

4,214 Listeners

Life Kit by NPR

Life Kit

4,825 Listeners

Short Wave by NPR

Short Wave

6,572 Listeners

People I (Mostly) Admire by Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher

People I (Mostly) Admire

2,068 Listeners

Unexplainable by Vox

Unexplainable

2,309 Listeners

The Economics of Everyday Things by Freakonomics Network & Zachary Crockett

The Economics of Everyday Things

1,683 Listeners