“Drunkard’s Walk” Sunlight, The Undiagnosed Diseases Network, and the Only Universal Word
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 963 Ratings
🗓️ 2 November 2018
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
Learn about why the sunlight you feel might be 50 million years old; learn about the Undiagnosed Diseases Network that has diagnosed hundreds of people with previously undiagnosable diseases; and the closest thing scientists have found to a “universal word.”
In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter and learn something new in just a few minutes:
- That Sunlight You Feel Might Be 50 Million Years Old — https://curiosity.im/2D7J1rG
- "Huh" Is the Closest Thing We've Found to a Universal Word — https://curiosity.im/2D5QGXh
- This NIH Project Has Diagnosed Hundreds of People with Previously Undiagnosable Diseases — https://curiosity.im/2D6dq9H
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, we've got three stories from curiosity.com to help it get smarter in just a few minutes. |
| 0:05.4 | I'm Cody Gough. |
| 0:06.3 | And I'm Ashley Hamer. |
| 0:07.4 | Today you learn about why the sunlight you feel might be 50 million years old, the closest |
| 0:12.3 | things scientists have found to a universal word, and a project |
| 0:15.9 | that has diagnosed hundreds of people with previously undiagnosable diseases. |
| 0:20.3 | Let's satisfy some curiosity on the award-winning Curiosity Daily. |
| 0:24.0 | Here's something fun. The light that reaches Earth might have been created at the center of the sun more than 50 million years ago. |
| 0:31.0 | Ready for a light science lesson? |
| 0:33.8 | Sounds like a bright idea. |
| 0:35.3 | Hehaha. |
| 0:36.3 | Well, here's a quick recap on the speed of light. |
| 0:39.4 | Light travels at 186,388, 388 miles per second. |
| 0:44.3 | On average, the Earth is just under 93 million miles away |
| 0:48.3 | from the sun. |
| 0:49.4 | If you run the numbers, it works out, |
| 0:51.0 | so it should take about 8.31 minutes from the moment the light leaves the sun |
| 0:55.2 | to the moment it starts charging your pocket calculator. It's kind of weird to think that if the sun disappeared, |
| 1:00.7 | we wouldn't even realize it for eight minutes. But it's even |
| 1:03.7 | weirder to think that those same light waves have probably been kicking around |
| 1:07.5 | inside the sun for tens of thousands or even millions of years beforehand. |
| 1:11.9 | See inside the sun, the photons or light particles, don't make a straight dash. |
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