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Fri. 10/16 - Will Plastic Bubbles Save Live Music? The Flaming Lips Think So.

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

Tech News, News, Science, Society & Culture

4.6739 Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

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More and more humans these days have an extra artery. The 2020 Tony Award nominations and the very strange case of Mr. Aaron Tveit. A calculator that will tell you how much time you’re wasting in your day not listening to podcasts. And The Flaming Lips have a plan to bring concerts back, responsibly. Sponsor: FightCamp, joinfightcamp.com/ride Links: More Humans Are Growing an Extra Artery in Our Arms, Showing We're Still Evolving (Science Alert) 2020 Tony Award Nominations: Jagged Little Pill, Moulin Rouge!, Slave Play Lead the Pack (Playbill) The 2020 Tony nominations have been announced, and they’re the weirdest ever (Washington Post) Review: ‘The Lightning Thief,’ a Far Cry From Olympus (New York Times) The Podcast Calculator is here to fill up your "dead time" (A/V Club)  Podcast Calculator - Reclaim the Dead Time (OmniCalculator) The Flaming Lips are testing out bubble concerts (A/V Club) Interview: The Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne Talks 'American Head,' COVID-19, Audience Bubbles & More (JamBase) 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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0:40.3

I'm Jackson Bird.

0:41.3

More and more humans these days have an extra artery.

0:46.3

The 2020 Tony Award nominations and the very strange case of Mr. Aaron Tevates.

0:53.3

A calculator that will tell you how much time you're

0:55.8

wasting in your day not listening to podcasts. And the flaming lips have a plan to bring

1:03.1

concerts back responsibly. Here are some of the cool things from the news today.

1:10.9

A new study in the Journal of Anatomy shows that humans have been growing in extra artery

1:16.6

in our arms the latest indication that we are indeed evolving. To be more specific, we're

1:22.9

not so much growing in extra artery as more and more people are keeping what's called the median artery

1:29.1

instead of it regressing at around eight weeks gestation. The median artery in humans is a third

1:35.4

artery used in the womb to transport blood to our growing hands. There have always been some people

1:41.0

who retain the median artery, but for most people, it vanishes before

1:44.8

they're born. But in analyzing data kept since at least the 19th century, we can see that

1:49.5

the prevalence of people who grow to adulthood with a median artery has gone from about 10% in

1:55.4

the 1880s to 30% of people born in the late 20th century.

2:00.9

To dive further into this noted trend,

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