Flirting Cats, Walking Sharks, Preventing Cerebral Palsy

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4.6 • 963 Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2022

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

We discuss a new app that can translate a cat’s meow into human languages, how the Epaulette shark is teaching us about climate change, and a potential treatment that might prevent cerebral palsy.

Flirting Cats

“Did My Cat Just Hit On Me? An Adventure in Pet Translation” by Emily Anthes
- https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/29/science/cats-pets-ommunication-artificial-intelligence.html
“Melody matters: An acoustic study of domestic cat meows in six contexts and four mental states” by Susanne Schötz, Joost van de Weijer, and Robert Eklund
- https://peerj.com/preprints/27926/
“The Animal Translators” by Emily Anthes
- https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/30/science/translators-animals-naked-mole-rats.html

Walking Sharks

“These Sharks Can Walk, and They Might Help Us Understand More About Climate Change” by Orlando Mayorquin
- https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/08/25/walking-epaulette-shark-climate-change/7879031001/
“Aquatic Walking and Swimming Kinematics of Neonate and Juvenile Epaulette Sharks” by Marianne E Porter, Andrea V Hernandez, Connor R Gervais, and Jodie L Rummer
- https://academic.oup.com/icb/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/icb/icac127/6650877?redirectedFrom=fulltext&login=false

Preventing Cerebral Palsy

“Study offers hope for preventing cerebral palsy” by University of Auckland
- https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/966360
“Tumour necrosis factor blockade after asphyxia in foetal sheep ameliorates cystic white matter injury” by Christopher A. Lear, Benjamin A. Lear, Joanne O. Davidson, Jialin Sae-Jiw, Johanna M. Lloyd, Simerdeep K. Dhillon, Alistair J. Gunn, and Laura Bennet
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36087304/
“Cerebral Palsy Facts and Statistics” by Pierrette Mimi Poinsett, M.D.
- https://www.cerebralpalsyguidance.com/cerebral-palsy/research/facts-and-statistics/#:~:text=Around%20764%2C000%20people%20in%20the,with%20cerebral%20palsy%20each%20year.
What is Cerebral Palsy?
- https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/cp/facts.html#:~:text=Cerebral%20palsy%20(CP)%20is%20a,problems%20with%20using%20the%20muscles.

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0:00.0	Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Discovery.
0:08.2	Time flies when you're learning super cool stuff.
0:10.8	I'm Nate.
0:11.8	And I'm Callie. If you're dropping in for the first time,
0:14.0	welcome to Curiosity, where we aim to blow your mind by helping you to grow your mind.
0:18.1	If you're loyal listener, welcome back. Today we are going to talk about a new app that can translate a cat's meow into human languages,
0:26.0	how the epau is teaching us about climate change and a potential treatment that might prevent cerebral palsy.
0:33.0	Without further ado, let's satisfy some curiosity.
0:37.0	Callie, I have a question for you as a cat owner.
0:40.0	Ooh, my favorite subject.
0:42.0	Okay, hit me.
0:43.0	Do you ever feel like your cat is flirting with you?
0:47.0	Okay, I'm not sure what I expected, but that definitely wasn't it.
0:51.0	Um, she does turn up the charm when there's tuna around but why do you ask?
0:56.0	Well I recently read about a new mobile app that apparently can prove that cats can in fact flirt with humans.
1:04.0	Interesting. I guess that's not surprising to anybody who's ever
1:08.0	taking care of a cat though. I mean they do give off that fem-petal energy.
1:12.0	How does this app work? Well the story started
1:15.4	when New York Times reporter Emily Anthus downloaded an app called meow-talk, a
1:20.4	mobile app that claims to convert cat meows into English.
1:25.0	Her cat momo is a self-described chatterbox and Emily thought,
1:29.0	I wonder what momo is actually saying.
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