5G Might Impair Weather Forecasts
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 964 Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2020
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Learn about how 5G may impair weather forecasts, and how the first confirmed exoplanet was discovered a lot more recently than you may realize. Plus, science writer John Tierney is back to explore how negativity bias affects our relationships.
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Additional resources from science writer John Tierney:
- Pick up "The Power of Bad: How the Negativity Effect Rules Us and How We Can Rule It" on Amazon
- John Tierney on Twitter
- John Tierney on the New York Times
5G May Impair Weather Forecasts by Grant Currin
- 5G wireless may lead to inaccurate weather forecasts. (2020). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-09/ru-5wm092320.php
- Yousefvand, M., Wu, Chung-Tse Michael, Wang, R.-Q., Brodie, J., & Mandayam, N. (2020). Modeling the Impact of 5G Leakage on Weather Prediction. ArXiv.Org. https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.13498
- Curiosity Daily episode that featured a 5G explainer: https://www.curiositydaily.com/difference-between-5g-and-4g-networks-w-trace-dominguez-and-self-repairing-batteries/
We Didn't Officially Confirm the Existence of Exoplanets Until 1992 by Joanie Faletto
- Wall, M. (2017, January 9). Exoplanet Anniversary: 1st Alien Worlds Confirmed 25 Years Ago Today. Space.Com; Space. https://www.space.com/35253-exoplanet-discovery-anniversary-25-years.html
- Wolszczan, A., & Frail, D. A. (1992). A planetary system around the millisecond pulsar PSR1257 + 12. Nature, 355(6356), 145–147. https://doi.org/10.1038/355145a0
- NASA Exoplanet Archive. (2020). Caltech.Edu. https://exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu/
- James Webb Space Telescope. (2019). NASA. https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/webb/main/index.html
- NASA Telescope Reveals Record-Breaking Exoplanet Discovery. (2011). NASA. https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-telescope-reveals-largest-batch-of-earth-size-habitable-zone-planets-around
- NEW Grid | The Arecibo Observatory. (2020). Naic.Edu. http://www.naic.edu/
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Curiosity.com. |
| 0:06.5 | I'm Ashley Hamer. |
| 0:07.6 | And I'm Natalia Reagan. |
| 0:08.8 | Today you learn how 5G may impair weather forecasts and how the first confirm exoplanet was discovered a lot more recently than you may realize. |
| 0:17.0 | Plus, science writer John Tierney is back to explore how negativity bias affects our relationships. |
| 0:23.7 | Let's satisfy some curiosity. |
| 0:26.5 | When you're in a long-term relationship, |
| 0:28.6 | especially during lockdown, |
| 0:30.1 | when you and your partner in contact 24-7, I wouldn't know anything about that. |
| 0:34.4 | It's easy to get preoccupied with the things that they're doing wrong. |
| 0:38.4 | That's another way we're affected by negativity bias, |
| 0:41.4 | which John Tierney talked about on yesterday's episode. |
| 0:44.5 | Today he'll tell us about how our ability to deal with negativity may be the most |
| 0:49.5 | important quality for a good relationship. Science writer John Tierney is a co-author of the book The Power of Bad, |
| 0:56.0 | How the Negativity Effect Rules Us and how we can rule it. |
| 1:00.0 | And Cody and I talked to him right before the pandemic hit, but his lessons are surprisingly relevant to today's world. |
| 1:06.4 | Here's John. |
| 1:08.0 | It does distort, you know, relationships and it distorts the way you get along with people. |
| 1:14.0 | In relationships, when researchers track which couples are going to stay together, |
| 1:19.0 | they find that it isn't really the good quality, |
| 1:21.0 | it's not the good things people do for each other, it's how they |
| 1:25.6 | avoid offending each other and how they give their partner the benefit of the doubt when something |
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