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Curiosity Weekly

A Trick for Avoiding Regrets, 3D-Printing Your Brain, and a Medieval Security Alarm

Curiosity Weekly

Warner Bros. Discovery

Self-improvement, Science, Astronomy, Education

4.6935 Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2018

⏱️ 7 minutes

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In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter and learn something new in just a few minutes:

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0:00.0

Hi, we've got three stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter in just a few minutes.

0:05.0

I'm Cody Gough.

0:06.0

And I'm Ashley Hamer.

0:07.0

Today you'll learn a three second trick that'll stop you from saying something you might regret later.

0:11.0

You'll hear a medieval alarm that protected the

0:13.2

show gun from assassins and you'll learn the story behind 3D printed brains and

0:17.5

why they could be a big deal in the medical world. Let's satisfy some

0:20.3

curiosity. All right Ashley, did you ever do that thing at home where you stick to the side of the hallway

0:24.5

is to stay quiet?

0:25.5

I don't know what you're talking about.

0:27.1

So like in my parents' house upstairs, if I left my bedroom and I'm going on the hallway,

0:31.8

if I walked in the middle of the hallway,

0:33.2

you would hear the boards creaking, not the boards,

0:35.9

but you know, like the floor would kind of creak a little bit.

0:37.9

But he was stuck to the sides

0:39.7

because either they're more reinforced or they're not walked on as often then they would never make a noise

0:45.7

Interesting you never had a system like that I don't think my floors worked that way

0:51.0

Or if they did I never discovered it. Wow. Yeah. Pro tip!

0:55.0

stick to the side of the hallway if you're trying to sneak in or out. There you go.

0:58.2

But don't do it if you're not allowed to. We don't advocate breaking rules on this show. Of course not.

1:04.6

Well today you're going to learn about a medieval security alarm that protected the

1:08.4

Shogun from potential assassin and it works in a kind of similar way. Very different, but kind of similar.

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