David Copperfield’s Magic on the Moon, Fish and Whale Tails, a Giant Magnetic Tunnel
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 963 Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2022
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Learn about where to find David Copperfield’s secrets; a magnetic tunnel surrounding the Earth; and marine mammal tails.
More from David Copperfield:
- Pick up "David Copperfield's History of Magic": https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/David-Copperfields-History-of-Magic/David-Copperfield/9781982112912
- Website: https://www.davidcopperfield.com/
- Follow @D_Copperfield on Twitter: https://twitter.com/D_Copperfield
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/davidcopperfield
Earth may be surrounded by a giant magnetic tunnel by Briana Brownell
- Starr, M. (2021). Wild New Paper Claims Earth May Be Surrounded by a Giant Magnetic Tunnel. ScienceAlert. https://www.sciencealert.com/earth-may-be-surrounded-by-a-giant-magnetic-tunnel
- Dunlap Astronomer discovers we may be surrounded by tunnel-like structure - Dunlap Institute. (2021). Dunlap Institute. http://www.dunlap.utoronto.ca/astronomer-discovers-tunnel-like-structure-may-surround-earth/
- What — and Where — Is the North Polar Spur? (2021, March 8). Sky & Telescope. https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/what-and-where-is-the-north-polar-spur/
- S.;Landecker, A. (2017). The Fan Region at 1.5 GHz with GMIMS: Polarized synchrotron emission tracing Galactic structure. American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #229, 229, 340.05. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2017AAS...22934005H/abstract
Why do marine mammals have horizontal tails and fishes have vertical tails? (Listener question from Raymond in Norwalk, California) — more from zoologist Michelle Jewell:
- The Spawn of El Diablo on Discovery+: https://www.discoveryplus.com/video/the-spawn-of-el-diablo-us/the-spawn-of-el-diablo
- Michelle's website: https://michelleajewell.com/
- Follow @TheSharkologist on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheSharkologist
Join Cody and Ashley during their CES Virtual Stage Talks at #CES2022, the Consumer Electronics Show, via livestream:
- Thursday, January 6, 10:30am PT / 1:30pm ET: Digital Optics and the Metaverse https://www.linkedin.com/video/event/urn:li:ugcPost:6874433397352128512/
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Discovery. |
| 0:05.6 | I'm Cody Gough. And I'm Ashley Hamer. Today you learn about the hard to reach place where you can find the secrets |
| 0:11.2 | to David Copperfield's mind-blowing illusions, and a giant magnetic tunnel |
| 0:15.8 | that may be surrounding the earth. |
| 0:17.5 | We'll also answer a listener question about why marine mammals have horizontal tails and |
| 0:22.1 | fishes have vertical tails, with help from zoologist |
| 0:24.9 | Michelle Jewel. |
| 0:26.1 | Would satisfy some curiosity. |
| 0:29.2 | Yesterday the world-renowned performer David Copperfield told us about how magicians were responsible |
| 0:35.6 | for a lot of the technological breakthroughs that we take for granted today. |
| 0:40.4 | And today he's going to tell us about the very strange place where you can find all of his secrets, |
| 0:46.4 | as long as you've got the right equipment. |
| 0:49.0 | David Copperfield is probably the best known stage magician today. |
| 0:53.3 | He's won Emmy Awards and holds world records. |
| 0:56.2 | His face is on postage stamps. |
| 0:58.7 | And the US Library of Congress literally |
| 1:01.0 | named him a living legend. |
| 1:03.1 | And the secrets to his legendary illusions are out there. |
| 1:07.1 | But there's somewhere that's pretty hard to access. |
| 1:10.6 | Apparently some of your secrets are on the moon. Can you tell us about that? |
| 1:14.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:15.0 | There's the Arch Mission Project, which is a group of people who are really smart who are able to make |
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