Gray Matter Gabfest, Our Pulsating Earth, Smarty Cats
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 963 Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2022
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Today, you’ll learn about how a man with advanced ALS, who can’t move a muscle, was able to communicate with his family using his thoughts, about a sixty-year-old mystery involving the earth and why it pulsates every twenty-six seconds, and how cats can learn the names of their fellow cats under the right conditions.
A man with ALS can communicate with his thoughts.
- “Brain Implant Allows Fully Paralyzed Patient to Communicate” by Jonathan Moens
- “Brain Implants Allow Paralyzed Man to Communicate Using His Thoughts” by Margaret Osborne
The earth pulsates underneath your feet.
- “Earth Pulsates Every 26 Seconds. Know One Knows Why” by Caroline Delbert
- “Earth is Pulsating Every 26 Seconds and Seismologists Don’t Agree Why” by Anna Funk
Cats know the names of their friends.
- “Cats learn the names of their friend cats in their daily lives” By Saho Takagi, Et al.
- “Cats know the names of other cats that are their friends, study says” by Matthew Rozsa
- “Cats can memorize their friends' names, new study suggests” By Brandon Specktor
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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. I'm Nate. |
| 0:12.0 | And I'm Callie. If you're dropping it |
| 0:14.0 | for the first time welcome to curiosity where we aim to blow your mind by helping you |
| 0:18.3 | to grow your mind. If you're a loyal listener, welcome back. Today you'll learn about how a man with advanced ALS who can't move a muscle was able to |
| 0:26.7 | communicate with his family using his thoughts. |
| 0:29.6 | About a 60-year-old mystery involving the Earth and why it pulsates every 26 seconds and how |
| 0:35.5 | cats can learn the names of their fellow cats under the right conditions. |
| 0:39.4 | Without further ado, let's satisfy some curiosity. All right, Nate, let's say you were only allowed to ask one question today. |
| 0:47.0 | What would you ask? |
| 0:48.0 | For someone to help me find my car keys, I haven't seen them in like a week my cars got like three tickets on it. |
| 0:53.7 | Yeah you got to take care of that. Okay now imagine if asking that one question took you |
| 0:58.9 | all day and it was a groundbreaking achievement. What would be groundbreaking about asking if anybody's senior keys? |
| 1:06.0 | Well, for the first time ever, researchers were able to achieve full communication, sentences even, |
| 1:12.0 | with a patient who is completely locked in. |
| 1:14.0 | He's locked in. I'm locked out. |
| 1:17.0 | Not not locked out of his car, Nate. |
| 1:19.0 | He has locked in syndrome. No muscle control at all. |
| 1:22.0 | He can't speak. Not even his eyes can move. |
| 1:25.0 | Boy, that's awful. What's going on there? |
| 1:27.0 | So he's 34 and has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. |
| 1:31.0 | Isn't that ALS? |
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