Anti-Drunk Gel, Hot Spring Viruses, Tiger Beetles
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 963 Ratings
🗓️ 1 August 2024
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Today, you’ll learn about a gel that stops alcohol from making you drunk and harming your liver, the ancient viruses of Yellowstone hot springs, and the song that tiger beetles sing to confuse bats.
Anti-Drunk Gel
- “Anti-intoxicant gel keeps alcohol out of the bloodstream.” by Ben Coxworth. 2024.
- “Single-site iron-anchored amyloid hyrdrogels as catalytic platforms for alcohol detoxification.” by Jiaqi Su, et al. 2024.
Hot Spring Viruses
- “Hot springs viruses at Yellowstone National Park have ancient origins and are adapted to thermophilic hosts.” by L. Felipe Benites, et al. 2024.
- “Yellowstone’s Best Geothermal Features.” by Amelia Mayer. 2023.
- “Hot Springs.” National Park Service. 2017.
Tiger Beetles
- “Tiger beetles fight off bat attacks with ultrasonic mimicry.” EurekAlert! 2024.
- “Echolocation.” Neighbourhood Bat Watch. N.d.
- “Tiger beetles produce anti-bat ultrasound and are probably Batesian moth mimics.” by Harlan M. Gough, et al. 2024.
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| 0:48.0 | Today you'll learn about a gel that stops alcohol from making you drunk and harming your liver, the ancient viruses of |
| 0:54.7 | Yellowstone hot springs and the song that Tiger Beatles sing to confuse bats. |
| 1:00.4 | Wait what? All right, let's find out. |
| 1:04.0 | A new ingestible gel may help people enjoy alcoholic drinks without catching a buzz or causing |
| 1:09.8 | liver damage. |
| 1:10.8 | What is this some kind of antidote to booze? |
| 1:14.0 | I mean, that's definitely one way to think about it, but antidotes tend to reverse the action of the |
| 1:19.3 | drug they interact with. |
| 1:20.6 | In the case of this gel, it actually stopped alcohol from entering your bloodstream in the first place. |
| 1:25.0 | Okay, so maybe instead of antidote, it's more like a cork. |
| 1:29.0 | Okay, well, whatever you want to call it, it's really like a magic trick of chemistry and biology. |
| 1:34.0 | So to explain what's going on here, let's first talk about alcohol. |
| 1:37.4 | So every sip of alcohol we take makes its way into our bloodstream through the mucous |
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