Fri. 06/25 - 20,000 Years Ago, A Different Coronavirus Epidemic Hit Humanity

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Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

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🗓️ 25 June 2021

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Researchers have found evidence of a coronavirus epidemic from 20,000 years ago. A new blood test that can detect fifty different types of cancer. And what the lowercase “i” in Apple products stands for and why they stopped using it. Links: A Coronavirus Epidemic Hit 20,000 Years Ago, New Study Finds (NY Times) 20,000 years of coronaviruses (and counting) (Cosmos Magazine) A Coronavirus Epidemic Hit Humanity 20,000 Years Ago, DNA Study Reveals (Science Alert) Blood test that finds 50 types of cancer is accurate enough to be rolled out (The Guardian) Blood test for early detection of cancer: final study results support screening use (Eurek Alert) Why Apple Products Have An 'i' (Apple Explained, YouTube) Why The Apple Watch Wasn't Named iWatch (Apple Explained, YouTube) The Death of Apple's 'i' (Apple Explained, YouTube) How the Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone by Brian McCullough 'Under the Banner of Heaven' Miniseries with Andrew Garfield and Daisy Edgar-Jones Greenlit at FX (Collider) Prophet's Prey (2015) (Showtime) Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer Discovery of ‘Dragon Man’ Skull in China May Add Species to Human Family Tree (NY Times) Kottke.Org Jackson Bird on Twitter 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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0:31.7	Welcome to the Kotky Ride Home for Friday, June 25th, 2021. I'm Jackson Bird.
0:42.2	Researchers have found evidence of a coronavirus epidemic from 20,000 years ago.
0:49.0	A new blood test that can detect 50 different types of cancer and what the lowercase eye in Apple products
0:58.3	stands for and why they stopped using it. Here are some of the cool things from the news today.
1:07.1	We know that coronaviruses, like COVID-19, the common cold, and more, have been responsible for their fair share of epidemics.
1:15.6	The current one, of course, as well as MERS beginning in 2012 and SARS beginning in 2002.
1:21.8	But the history of coronavirus epidemics goes back a lot further.
1:26.0	Like, a lot further. According to a new analysis published
1:29.8	yesterday in the journal Current Biology, major coronavirus outbreaks were apparently happening 20,000
1:36.3	years ago. This ancient form of a coronavirus was devastating enough in its impact in East Asia
1:42.4	to leave an evolutionary imprint on the DNA of people today, according to the New York Times.
1:48.7	Prior to this study, tracking the history of coronaviruses has mostly involved looking at the genes of the pathogens.
1:54.8	Researchers have been able to track a mild coronavirus, a type that would only cause a minor cold, back 820 years. But before that, not much.
2:03.6	Now, this new study has looked at the effects of the viruses on the DNA of humans, as opposed to the viruses, and found a lot more.
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