Dr. Amesh Adalja Explains Social Distancing for COVID-19, Birds Won’t Spread Fake News, and Using Auroras to Find Exoplanets

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Self-improvement, Science, Astronomy, Education

4.6 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2020

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Amesh Adalja, Senior Scholar at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Health Security, explains how today’s unprecedented closures can help save lives from coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Plus: learn how birds avoid spreading fake news and how astronomers are using auroras to find distant exoplanets.

Birds alter the spread of information based on its trustworthiness by Kelsey Donk

University of Montana researchers study how birds retweet news. (2020). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-02/tuom-uom021420.php
Carlson, N. V., Greene, E., & Templeton, C. N. (2020). Nuthatches vary their alarm calls based upon the source of the eavesdropped signals. Nature Communications, 11(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14414-w

Astronomers are finding distant exoplanets by looking for auroras in their home stars by Grant Currin

Vedantham, H. K., Callingham, J. R., Shimwell, T. W., Tasse, C., Pope, B. J. S., Bedell, M., Snellen, I., Best, P., Hardcastle, M. J., Haverkorn, M., Mechev, A., O’Sullivan, S. P., Röttgering, H. J. A., & White, G. J. (2020). Coherent radio emission from a quiescent red dwarf indicative of star–planet interaction. Nature Astronomy. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-020-1011-9
New Exoplanet Search Strategy Claims First Discovery | Quanta Magazine. (2020). Quanta Magazine. https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-exoplanet-search-strategy-claims-first-discovery-20200218/

Additional resources recommended by Dr. Amesh Adalja:

Official website http://www.trackingzebra.com/
Follow @AmeshAA on Twitter https://twitter.com/AmeshAA
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention COVID-19 information https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html
STAT https://www.statnews.com/

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0:00.0	Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Curiosity.com.
0:06.0	I'm Cody Goth. And I'm Ashley Hamer.
0:08.0	Today you learn about how birds avoid spreading fake news and how astronomers are using auroras to find distant exoplanets.
0:15.0	And if you're stuck at home wondering about the unprecedented closures happening around the world right now,
0:20.0	then stick around.
0:22.0	Because Dr Amish Adulja will join us from Johns Hopkins University's
0:25.8	Center for Health Security to explain how these big changes can help save lives.
0:30.5	We may sound a little different than what you're used to because Ashley where are we right now?
0:34.0	We are each at our respective homes.
0:38.0	Talk about an action-packed episode and you're getting two episodes tomorrow.
0:44.0	More on that later, right now let's satisfy some curiosity.
0:47.6	A new study says birds measure the trustworthiness of information before repeating it.
0:54.2	And they won't spread fake news.
0:56.9	So much for being bird brains, am I right?
0:59.5	Let's see what we can learn from these little tweeters.
1:02.4	Well, first off, there aren't any secrets in the
1:04.7	animal kingdom so when a chickadee calls a high-pitched seep other birds go silent
1:10.1	look up and dive in the bushes. A hawk is flying through and all the birds know to look out for it immediately.
1:17.0	Sound familiar? Maybe like how news spreads on Twitter?
1:21.0	Researchers call these complex bird alert systems the original tweeting, and they mimic
1:27.1	our own social media networks in more ways than one.
1:30.8	Fake news exists in nature too.
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