Glass Rain Dinosaur Pain, Snarge Science, Human Skin Cyborg

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🗓️ 14 September 2022

⏱️ 14 minutes

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A new archeological discovery might be from the day of the big asteroid strike that took down the dinosaurs, bird goo is helping us understand airplane accidents, and find out about the most human-like robot finger you’ve ever seen!

Glass Rain Dinosaur Pain

Tanis: Fossil of Dinosaur Killed in Asteroid Strike Found, Scientists Claim by Jonathan Amos
- https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-61013740
Scientists Claim They've Found a Perfectly Preserved Dinosaur Fossil Killed When the Mass Extinction Asteroid Hit the Earth 66 Million Years Ago by Marianne Guenot and Alia Shoaib
- https://www.businessinsider.in/science/news/scientists-claim-theyve-found-a-perfectly-preserved-dinosaur-fossil-killed-when-the-mass-extinction-asteroid-hit-the-earth-66-million-years-ago/articleshow/90760067.cms
The Day the Dinosaurs Died by Douglas Preston
- https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/04/08/the-day-the-dinosaurs-died
A Seismically Induced Onshore Surge Deposit at the KPg Boundary, North Dakota by Robert A. DePalma, et al.
- https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1817407116
Chicxulub Impact Event: Discovering the Impact Site by Lunar and Planetary Institute
- https://www.lpi.usra.edu/science/kring/Chicxulub/discovery/

Snarge Science

‘Snarge’ Happens, and Studying It Makes Your Flight Safer by Jason Bittel
- https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/14/science/snarge-birds-airplanes.html
Smithsonian Institution, Feather Identification Lab by Federal Aviation Administration
- https://www.faa.gov/airports/airport_safety/wildlife/smithsonian/
Bird Strike - An Experimental, Theoretical, and Numerical Investigation by Reza Hedayati and Mojtaba Sadighi.
- https://app.knovel.com/hotlink/toc/id:kpBSAETNI2/bird-strike-an-experimental/bird-strike-an-experimental
Identifying the Bird, When Not Much Bird Is Left by Matthew L. Wald
- https://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/25/science/25birds.html

Human Skin Cyborg

“How Humanlike Do We Really Want Robots to Be?” by Brian Handwerk
- https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-humanlike-do-we-really-want-robots-to-be-180980234/
“Living skin on a robot” by Michio Kawai, Minghao Nie, Haruka Oda, Yuya Morimoto, and Shoji Takeuchi
- https://www.cell.com/matter/fulltext/S2590-2385(22)00239-9

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0:00.0	Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Discovery.
0:09.0	Time flies when you're learning 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
0:14.7	curiosity where we aim to blow your mind by helping you to grow your mind. If you're
0:18.4	a loyal listener, welcome back. Today you'll learn about a new archaeological
0:22.2	discovery that might be from the day of the big asteroid strike,
0:26.0	how Bird Gu is helping us understand airplane accidents and the most human-like robot finger you've ever seen.
0:33.3	Without further ado, let's satisfy some curiosity.
0:36.7	All right, Cal, I have an incredible dinosaur story today to share.
0:40.2	Researchers in North Dakota claim to have found fossils from creatures killed on the very day a giant asteroid struck Earth.
0:47.0	The remarkable find of immaculately preserved fossils includes a dinosaur leg, complete with well preserved skin, fish fossils,
0:55.0	and even the embryo of the impressive flying pterosaur preserved within an egg.
0:59.5	Preserved bone and skin?, that is actually really cool.
1:04.0	How can we pinpoint the day these creatures died millions of years ago?
1:08.0	That's a great question and to best answer it,
1:11.0	it really helps to understand the asteroid strike and its effect
1:14.0	on our planet and life 66 million years ago. It's known as the Shixilube impact.
1:18.7	Okay, and I know that that happened near the Gulf of Mexico and it was not good for a lot of
1:23.7	dinosaurs. The asteroid at least six miles wide struck Earth and created a crater
1:29.2	over 100 miles wide and 18 miles deep. The impact was so big it threw 25 trillion
1:36.8	metric tons of debris into the air. 25 trillion that is an unbelievable
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