Bionic Hand, Satellites Watch Crops, AI & Our Moral Compass

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Warner Bros. Discovery

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4.6 • 963 Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Today, you’ll learn about an incredible bionic hand, how scientists are watching what we eat… from space, and a new study that looks into how humans feel about AI judging them.

Bionic Hand

“Groundbreaking achievement as bionic hand merges with user’s nervous and skeletal systems, remaining functional after years of daily use.” by Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna. 2023.
“Phantom Limb Pain.” by Aaron A. Hanyu-Deutmeyer, et al. 2023.
“Artificial limbs.” by Linda J Marks & John W Michael. 2001.

Satellites Watch Crops

“Measuring nutrition in crops from space.” European Space Agency. 2023.
“E0NUTRI: Earth Observation for estimating and predicting crop nutrients.” ESA. nd.
“HyNutri: Sensing “Hidden Hunger” with Sentinel-2 and Hyperspectral.” ESA. 2023.
“PRISMA and Sentinel-2 spectral response to the nutrient composition of grains.” by Mariana Belgiu, et al. 2023.

AI & Our Moral Compass

“People believe their moral traits are too distinct for AI to judge, study finds.” by Bianca Setionago. 2023.
“Humans feel too special for machines to score their morals.” by Zoe A Purcell & Jean-Francois Bonnefon. 2023.

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0:00.0	Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Discovery.
0:09.0	Time flies when you're learning super cool stuff.
0:11.0	I'm Nate.
0:12.0	And I'm Callie. If you're dropping in for the first time, welcome to Curiosity
0:15.2	where we aim to blow your mind by helping you to grow your mind. If you're loyal
0:18.1	listener, welcome back. Today you'll learn about an incredible bionic hand,
0:22.2	how scientists are watching what we eat from space,
0:26.8	and a new study that looks into how humans feel about AI judging them.
0:32.0	Without further ado, let's satisfy some curiosity.
0:35.1	After a farming accident, a Swedish woman named Karen
0:37.8	suffered debilitating pain in her right hand for 20 years.
0:41.5	She described it feeling like her hand had been put into a meat grinder and it was constant.
0:45.6	She was on a perpetual cocktail of painkillers and other pain management therapies.
0:49.7	And frankly, she didn't know what to do.
0:51.9	Oh, that sounds awful.
0:53.4	Even more so when you consider the fact that during that farming accident from 20 years ago,
0:57.3	she lost her right arm.
0:59.0	Hang on, so she was feeling debilitating pain in the hand she didn't even have anymore?
1:04.0	Yep, she was having severe phantom pain where she was perceiving pain signals from a limb that just didn't exist any longer.
1:10.0	And like I said, this was serious. But the phantom Pain isn't the most interesting part of Karen's story. The craziest part is how they eventually helped lessen that pain.
1:18.0	Okay, so she had Phantom Pain for decades and painkillers didn't really work. So is this some kind of gene therapy story?
1:25.2	Nope, even better. They built a bionic hand that literally fused to her bones and more or less
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