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Fri. 05/15 - Have Birds Gotten Louder During Lockdown?

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

Tech News, News, Science, Society & Culture

4.6739 Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

How far can respiratory droplets fall when we speak? What would a public health plan targeted towards the elderly look like? Some advice on combatting COVID-19 symptoms from someone in recovery. Plus, have birds gotten louder recently? Why did Michael Jordan agree to star in Space Jam? And a site to help you discover new-to-you music on Spotify. Links: Experiment shows human speech generates droplets that linger in the air for more than 8 minutes (Washington Post) Coronavirus: False claims viewed by millions on YouTube (BBC) Covid Targets the Elderly. Why Don't Our Prevention Efforts? (NY Magazine) Opinion | Coronavirus Is Making Young People Very Sick. I Was One of Them. (New York Times) Breathing exercise (Dr. Sarfaraz Munshi, YouTube) Birdsong seems louder and the ravens are more relaxed (Irish Times) Human Life Is Literally Quieter Due To Coronavirus Lockdown (NPR) Do Those Birds Sound Louder To You? An Ornithologist Says You're Just Hearing Things (NPR) Why Did Michael Jordan Star in 'Space Jam'? (Vulture) SpaceJam.com Forgotify See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:30.1

Welcome to the good news ride home for Friday, May 15th, 2020. I'm Jackson Bird.

0:36.6

How far can respiratory droplets fall when we speak? What would an elderly

0:41.9

health plan targeted toward the elderly look like? Some advice on combating COVID-19 symptoms from

0:48.5

someone currently in recovery. Plus, have birds gotten louder recently?

1:02.7

Why did Michael Jordan agree to star in Space Jam and a site to help you discover new-to-you music on Spotify?

1:10.7

More than two-thirds of U.S. states have now relaxed their lockdown restrictions. As many hope it will

1:12.0

ease economic strain, others remain concerned about the impact on public health. Those differing

1:17.4

perspectives are leading to fights breaking out at stores and putting retail employees at risk

1:22.7

as they attempt to enforce store or local policies. A target employee in California sustained a broken arm while

1:29.5

helping remove customers who refused to wear masks. A cashier in Pennsylvania was punched in the

1:35.1

face three times when she told a man he needed to be wearing a mask to be allowed to purchase items,

1:40.1

and a security guard in Michigan was shot and killed when he insisted a customer put on a mask before entering.

1:48.3

A new study from BMJ Global Health found that more than a quarter of the most viewed English-language

1:55.1

coronavirus-related videos on YouTube contain misleading or inaccurate information.

2:03.3

Some online have also been pointing out that some of these videos are playing as pre-roll ads on unrelated videos so even people who

2:08.8

aren't looking for coronavirus information might get served up a conspiracy theory in ad form.

2:15.2

YouTube replied in a statement saying, quote,

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