Gasthma, Sleep Memory, Frozen Reefs
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 935 Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2023
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Today we discuss how using gas stoves has caused a huge uptick in childhood asthma, how motor memory is developed while we sleep, and how scientists are working to save the larvae of coral reefs!
Gasthma
- “Population Attributable Fraction of Gas Stoves and Childhood Asthma in the United States” by Talor Gruenwald et al.
- “Gas stove pollution causes 12.7% of childhood asthma, study finds” by Maxine Joselow and Vanessa Montalbano
Sleep Memory
- “During sleep, brain regions synchronize to create motor memory” by UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - SAN FRANCISCO
- “Cortical–hippocampal coupling during manifold exploration in motor cortex” by Jaekyung Kim et al.
Frozen Reefs
- “Scientists freeze Great Barrier Reef coral in world-first trial” By Jill Gralow
- “Scientists pioneer ‘game-changing’ freezing technique that could save the Great Barrier Reef’s coral” by Charlotte Elton
- “Scientists Freeze Great Barrier Reef Coral” by GKToday
- “What is coral bleaching?” by National Ocean Service
- “SCIENTISTS HAVE MADE A HUGE BREAKTHROUGH IN CRYOGENICS” by June Javelosa
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Discovery. |
| 0:08.6 | Time flies when you learn in super cool stuff. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm Nate. |
| 0:12.0 | And I'm Kali. If you're dropping in for the first time, welcome to Curiosity |
| 0:15.1 | where we aim to blow your mind by helping you to grow your mind. If you're a loyal |
| 0:18.2 | listener, welcome back. Today you'll learn about how using gas stoves has |
| 0:22.0 | caused a huge uptick in childhood asthma, |
| 0:25.2 | how motor memory is developed while we sleep, |
| 0:28.1 | and how scientists are working to save the larvae of coral reefs. |
| 0:32.3 | Without further ado, let's satisfy some curiosity. |
| 0:35.0 | You know, childhood asthma can actually be caused by a lot of things like allergies and pets or even genetics, |
| 0:41.0 | but it was actually recently discovered that nearly 13% of all childhood asthma |
| 0:46.0 | is caused by gastopes. |
| 0:48.0 | I think I was expecting you to say something like secondhand smoke there, not the range where you |
| 0:55.8 | cook dinner. |
| 0:56.8 | Yeah, so 12.7% of childhood asthma is caused by secondhand smoke. |
| 1:01.8 | Same percentage for gas burning stoves. |
| 1:04.0 | All right that's the weird break this down for me where where is this information |
| 1:08.6 | coming from how do we know how do we learn this? It was discovered in a study |
| 1:11.9 | recently published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. They found that nearly 650,000 cases of childhood asthma were linked to gas stove exposure. So gas stoves are used in about 35% of |
| 1:25.2 | U.S. households, but they can emit significant amounts of nitrogen dioxide, which is a |
| 1:29.7 | pollutant that can trigger asthma and a number of other respiratory conditions. |
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