Brewer’s Yeast, Constructed Languages, Memory Direction

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Warner Bros. Discovery

Self-improvement, Science, Astronomy, Education

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🗓️ 18 April 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Today, you’ll learn about a new plan to use waste from beer brewing to clean metal out of our water supply, a study that puts languages like Orc and Klingon to the test, and a discovery about the direction our memories travel in our brains.

Brewer’s Yeast

“The same beer waste that gives us Vegemite could help us recycle metal waste.” n.a. 2024.
“Spent brewer’s yeast as a selective biosorbent for metal recovery from polymetallic waste streams.” by Anna Sieber, et al. 2024.
“What Is E-Waste Recycling and How Is it Done?” by Tin Lok Wu. 2023.

Constructed Languages

“From Star Trek’s Klingon to Tolkien’s Orkish: Unraveling the auditory aesthetics of constructed languages.” by Eric W. Dolan. 2024.
“Does Orkish Sound Evil? Perception of Fantasy Languages and Their Phonetic and Phonological Characteristics.” by Christine Mooshammer, et al. 2024.

Memory Direction

“Brain Waves Travel in One Direction When Memories Are Made and the Opposite When Recalled.” by Grant Currin. 2024.
“Theta and Alpha Oscillations Are Traveling Waves in the Human Neocortex.” by Honghui Zhang, et al. 2018.
“The direction of theta and alpha travelling waves modulates human memory processing.” by Uma R. Mohan, et al. 2024.

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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 Gally. If you're dropping in for the first time
0:14.2	welcome to curiosity where we aim to blow your mind by helping you grow your mind. If you're
0:18.3	a loyal listener, welcome back. Today you'll learn about a new plan to use waste from
0:22.1	beer brewing to clean metal out of our water supply,
0:25.6	a study that puts languages like Ork and Clingon to the test, and a discovery about the
0:30.4	direction our memories travel in our brains.
0:34.0	Without further ado, let's satisfy some curiosity.
0:37.0	The world has an e-waste problem.
0:40.0	In case it's not obvious, e-waste refers to all the gadgets, tech toys, devices, and stuff like that we no longer need.
0:47.0	This is high-tech garbage that's piling up.
0:49.0	Like in one year alone, it was estimated the world produced somewhere around 60 million tons of e-waste and only around
0:56.5	17% of it was documented as having been recycled.
1:00.8	It's one of those things we didn't really anticipate 20 or 25 years ago.
1:04.0	I mean, sure, for decades we've dumped printers and projectors and all kinds of tech trash,
1:08.0	but just think about the sheer number of cables alone we tossed out in a year.
1:12.0	Yeah, I mean, I've got like a big drawer that's... number of cables alone we tossed out in a year.
1:12.6	Yeah, I mean I've got like a big drawer that's basically just full of tangled power
1:17.2	cables and adapters so imagine that on a global scale.
1:20.4	And then imagine all of those cables sitting at a giant mountain next to the
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