Birth Order, Braincell Computers, Zimbabwe Hydro

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🗓️ 12 April 2023

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Today you’ll learn about whether or not birth order affects how rebellious you are, how researchers are working to turn a human brain into a machine, and what Zimbabwe is doing to try and solve their energy crisis.

Birth Order

“New study disputes the birth order theory that later-born are “born to rebel”” by Laura Staloch
- https://www.psypost.org/2023/02/new-study-disputes-the-birth-order-theory-that-later-born-are-born-to-rebel-68636
“Birth order, personality, and tattoos: A pre-registered empirical test of the ‘born to rebel’ hypothesis” by Gareth Richards et al.
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886922005487
“Rebelling Against Born to Rebel” by Frederic Townsend (PAYWALL, first page free)
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1061736197900096
“Steppenwolf’s Jerry Edmonton: The Man With The ‘Born To Be Wild’ Beat” by Paul Sexton
- https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/jerry-edmonton-steppenwolf-drummer/
“Mars Bonfire” by AllMusic
- https://www.allmusic.com/artist/mars-bonfire-mn0000793570

Braincell Computers

“Scientists unveil plan to create biocomputers powered by human brain cells” by FRONTIERS
- https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/980084
“Organoid intelligence (OI): the new frontier in biocomputing and intelligence-in-a-dish” by Lena Smirnova et al.
- https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/science/articles/10.3389/fsci.2023.1017235
“What lab-grown 'mini-brains' are revealing about this mysterious organ” by Clare Wilson
- https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25533962-300-what-lab-grown-mini-brains-are-revealing-about-this-mysterious-organ/

Zimbabwe Hydro

“In Zimbabwe, drought is driving a hydropower crisis—and a search for alternatives” BY ANDREW MAMBONDIYANI
- https://www.science.org/content/article/zimbabwe-drought-driving-hydropower-crisis-and-search-alternatives
“A Grid for all Seasons: Enhancing the Integration of Variable Solar and Wind Power in Electricity Systems Across Africa” by Sebastian Sterl
- https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40518-021-00192-6
“Hydropower plans in eastern and southern Africa increase risk of concurrent climate-related electricity supply disruption” by Declan Conway, Carole Dalin, Willem A. Landman & Timothy J. Osborn
- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41560-017-0037-4
“Potential for Battery Energy Storage System in Zimbabwe” by Njovana G. Allen et al.
- https://www.jree.ir/article_155040.html
“Biomass explained” by EIA
- https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/biomass/landfill-gas-and-biogas.ph

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0:00.0	Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Discovery.
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0:11.0	I'm Nate.
0:12.0	And I'm Callie. If you're dropping in for the first time,
0:14.0	welcome to curiosity where we aim to blow your mind by helping you to grow your mind.
0:18.0	If you're a loyal listener, welcome back. Today you'll learn about whether or not
0:22.1	birth order affects how rebellious you are, how
0:25.1	researchers are working to turn a human brain into a machine and what Zimbabwe is doing to try and
0:30.8	solve their energy crisis. Without further ado, let's satisfy some curiosity.
0:36.0	I don't know about you, but I kind of like the song,
0:39.0	Born to be wild.
0:42.0	Oh, it's going to be one of those episodes. be wild.
0:42.6	Oh, it's going to be one of those episodes.
0:44.5	And it's actually interesting because researchers have recently found that birth order can affect
0:49.4	how wild or rebellious your personality is.
0:53.0	The science of Stepin Wolf, a podcast by Nate Bonham now available on every platform.
0:58.0	Tell me, how are some of us born to be wild?
1:01.0	To be clear, it's actually called the born to rebel hypothesis and it was developed by the American psychologist Frank Solaway back in 1996
1:11.0	and it's centered on the idea that later born children are more likely to develop traits
1:16.0	diverging from societal norms to make themselves different from their older siblings.
1:20.9	As the theory goes, firstborn kids are way more likely to conform to the needs and expectations
1:26.2	of their family or society, but all the kids born later are more likely to take risks
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