Exercising at Night Won’t Mess with Your Sleep, Tonka Beans, and Non-Genome -Omes
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 963 Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2019
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
Learn about the strange history of the word “genome” and other -omes; where you can taste the legendary tonka bean, and why it’s illegal in some places; and new research that says exercising at night won’t mess with your sleep.
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:
- You've Heard of Your Genome — Now Meet Your Other -Omes — https://curiosity.im/2LCVogA
- Neuroprosthetics and the Future of Artificial Touch — https://curiosity.im/2sei8e9 (Curiosity Podcast Episode)
- The Tonka Bean Is Revered For Its Superb Flavor, But It's Illegal And Might Kill You — https://curiosity.im/2rK5QKj
- New Research Says Exercising at Night Won't Mess With Your Sleep — https://curiosity.im/2LQtPAN
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, we've got three stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter in just a few minutes. |
| 0:05.7 | I'm Cody Gough. |
| 0:06.7 | And I'm Ashley Hamer. |
| 0:07.7 | Today you learn about the strange history of the word genome and lots of other oms. |
| 0:12.2 | Where you can taste the legendary Tonka Bean and why it's |
| 0:14.8 | illegal in some places? And new research that says exercising at night won't mess with your |
| 0:19.9 | sleep. Would satisfy some curiosity on the award-winning Curiosity Daily? |
| 0:24.0 | I'm super pumped about our first story today, because when I started this article, I thought that |
| 0:28.0 | maybe there would be like 10 different omics to talk about, but it turns out there are |
| 0:32.1 | hundreds and hundreds and hundreds. |
| 0:34.0 | You're talking about words ending in omics like genomics. |
| 0:37.0 | Yes. |
| 0:38.0 | And there's a lot. There is a lot and it's almost become an in-joke among scientists |
| 0:42.0 | with everybody just calling their research |
| 0:44.4 | something omx and something om just to make it sound smart. It's like if I'm |
| 0:48.6 | studying cryptocurrency if I'm like cryptonomics. Totally and that's that's a thing. |
| 0:53.4 | Cryptonomics? |
| 0:54.4 | It's got to be. |
| 0:55.4 | I think it would be safe to say that any omics that you can come up with someone has |
| 0:58.9 | already used. |
| 0:59.9 | Wow. |
| 1:00.9 | That's why I specialize in Cody omics. |
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