Fossil Prep Mistakes, 1840s Electric Cars, Tip of Your Tongue
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
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🗓️ 3 September 2021
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Learn how accurate fossil preparators must be; why electric cars are an old concept; and words on the tip of your tongue.
Additional information about fossil preparators and other resources from Caitlyn Wylie:
- Pick up the open-access book "Preparing Dinosaurs: The Work Behind the Scenes": https://direct.mit.edu/books/monograph/5180/Preparing-DinosaursThe-Work-behind-the-Scenes
- Faculty page https://engineering.virginia.edu/faculty/caitlin-donahue-wylie
- Follow @CaitlinDWylie on Twitter https://twitter.com/CaitlinDWylie
Electric cars are the future, but they are also the distant past by Cameron Duke
- Hanlon, M. (2012, June 27). Le Jamais Contente - the first purpose-built land speed record car. New Atlas. https://newatlas.com/le-jamais-contente-first-land-speed-record/23094/
- Kirsch, D. A. (2021). The electric car and the burden of history: Studies in automotive systems rivalry in America, 1890--1996 - ProQuest. Proquest.com. https://www.proquest.com/openview/2615595fdc7e4891b8fac5ddfb762066/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y
- The History of the Electric Car. (2014). Energy.gov. https://www.energy.gov/articles/history-electric-car
- Wilson, K. A. (2018, March 15). Worth the Watt: A Brief History of the Electric Car, 1830 to Present. Car and Driver; Car and Driver. https://www.caranddriver.com/features/g15378765/worth-the-watt-a-brief-history-of-the-electric-car-1830-to-present/
Word on the tip of your tongue by Ashley Hamer (Listener question from Mariana in Lisbon, Portugal)
- Emmorey, K. D., & Fromkin, V. A. (1988). The mental lexicon. Linguistics: The Cambridge Survey, 124–149. https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511621062.006
- The Virtual Linguistics Campus. (2012). PSY112 - The Mental Lexicon [YouTube Video]. In YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8HIAVTeGNk
- D’Angelo, M. C., & Humphreys, K. R. (2015). Tip-of-the-tongue states reoccur because of implicit learning, but resolving them helps. Cognition, 142, 166–190. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2015.05.019
- Oliver, L. K., Li, T., Harley, J. J., & Humphreys, K. R. (2019). Neither Cue Familiarity nor Semantic Cues Increase the Likelihood of Repeating a Tip-of-the-Tongue State. Collabra: Psychology, 5(1). https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.200
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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. |
| 0:06.4 | I'm Cody Gough. And I'm Ashley Hamer. |
| 0:08.5 | Today you'll learn about how accurate fossil are part of the past and we'll answer a listener question about how you can know |
| 0:24.0 | some things on the tip of your tongue even when you don't know what that thing is. |
| 0:27.5 | Let's satisfy some curiosity. |
| 0:30.3 | Yesterday Caitlin Wiley told us about how painstaking and difficult it is to prepare a |
| 0:36.2 | dinosaur fossil for research. Today, she's going to tell us what could happen if that process |
| 0:41.6 | goes wrong? |
| 0:43.2 | Caitlin Wiley is assistant professor of science, technology, and society at the University |
| 0:47.7 | of Virginia, and author of the new book, Preparing Dinosaurs, |
| 0:51.8 | the work behind the Scenes. |
| 0:53.6 | And we asked her, how often do prepareters accidentally |
| 0:56.8 | damage these fossils? |
| 0:58.9 | The professionals would say you do not damage the bone ever. they don't like they are true you know |
| 1:07.2 | artists people who are less good which is most of us, and me, you know, as a student |
| 1:14.0 | preparator, yeah, you scratch the bone or you like take little divots out by |
| 1:18.6 | mistake and then you try to glue them back in place and it looks like a |
| 1:21.7 | mess. |
| 1:22.9 | There's a whole spectrum of skills |
| 1:25.0 | and a lot of fossil preparation is done by volunteers |
| 1:27.4 | in museums or in universities. |
| 1:29.9 | And so they're usually given the kinds of bones |
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