Gardening with Martian Soil, How to Stop Overspending, and a Technique for Remembering Things
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 963 Ratings
🗓️ 26 September 2018
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Learn how you can grow a garden in "regolith" Martian soil; how to stop spending too much money on frivolous purchases; and a memory technique you can use to remember pretty much everything.
In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter and learn something new in just a few minutes:
- This Company Wants You to Grow a Garden in Martian Soil
- To Avoid Overspending, Think of Money as Hours of Your Life
- Use the Memory Palace Technique to Remember Basically Everything
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, we've got three stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter in just a few minutes. |
| 0:05.4 | I'm Cody Gough. |
| 0:06.2 | And I'm Ashley Hamer. |
| 0:07.4 | Today you learn how you can grow a garden in Martian soil, |
| 0:10.7 | how to stop spending too much money on frivolous purchases, and a memory |
| 0:14.4 | technique you can use to remember pretty much everything. |
| 0:17.0 | Let's satisfy some curiosity. |
| 0:18.6 | Here's something you can add to the list of weird stuff you can buy online, |
| 0:21.8 | imitation Martian soil. That's right, you can now |
| 0:26.0 | see how your garden might grow on Mars. Are you a gardener Ashley? |
| 0:29.4 | I'm not, but I got really excited when I learned about this stuff. |
| 0:32.6 | Are you going to become a gardener? |
| 0:34.0 | I mean, I could become a Martian gardener any day. |
| 0:36.8 | I just need to spend 1999 and I too can be a Martian gardener. This is not sponsored. Yeah we say... |
| 0:45.0 | We're just about to say, let's get that out of the way right now. |
| 0:50.0 | No, we wrote about it because it's science and science is cool and fun. |
| 0:54.0 | Yeah, it's amazing. |
| 0:55.0 | Literally our entire show. |
| 0:57.0 | Well listen, to be totally clear, humans have never gotten actual samples of soil from Mars. Our spacecraft have sent back analysis of soil samples, but not the soil itself. |
| 1:08.0 | We've nicknamed Martian soil Regolith, and it comes from iron-rich volcanic rock with a varied texture. |
| 1:14.8 | Particles of regolith range from chunky gravel like you might see here on earth to |
| 1:20.0 | ultrefine dust and we mean ultra-fine. The dust floats up into the air a lot because it's so tiny, which is bad for spacecraft since |
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