How Loud Is the Sun?
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 964 Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2021
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Learn about a simple way to reduce your internet carbon footprint; how brain images can make you more likely to believe fake science; and how loud the sun is.
The internet has a big carbon footprint, and you can reduce yours with a simple fix by Kelsey Donk
- Turn off that camera during virtual meetings, environmental study says. (2021). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-01/pu-tot011421.php
- Obringer, R., Rachunok, B., Maia-Silva, D., Arbabzadeh, M., Nateghi, R., & Madani, K. (2021). The overlooked environmental footprint of increasing Internet use. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 167, 105389. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2020.105389
You'll Probably Believe Fake Science if It Comes With a Brain Image by Ashley Hamer
- McCabe, D. P., & Castel, A. D. (2008). Seeing is believing: The effect of brain images on judgments of scientific reasoning. Cognition, 107(1), 343–352. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2007.07.017
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- Curtis, G. (2017). Logical Fallacy: Affirming the Consequent. Fallacyfiles.org. http://www.fallacyfiles.org/afthecon.html
How loud is the sun? by Ashley Hamer (Listener question from Noro)
- The Song of the Sun (Published 2012). (2021). The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/14/science/studying-the-sun-through-its-sound-waves.html
- Scharping, N. (2020, February 4). What Would the Sun Sound Like If We Could Hear It On Earth? Discover Magazine; Discover Magazine. https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/what-would-the-sun-sound-like-if-we-could-hear-it-on-earth
- Second Thought. (2019). How Loud Is The Sun? [YouTube Video]. In YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePy_Gs3WTT4
- Bryner, J. (2007, June 4). Sound cranks up the heat in sun’s atmosphere. NBC News; NBC News. https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna19032772
- The Singing Sun. (2008). Stanford.edu. http://solar-center.stanford.edu/singing/
- Solar Sounds. (1997). Stanford.edu. http://soi.stanford.edu/results/sounds.html
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Curiosity.com. |
| 0:05.8 | I'm Cody Goff. And I'm Ashley Hamer. |
| 0:07.6 | Today you learn about a simple way to reduce your internet carbon footprint and how |
| 0:12.1 | brain images can make you more likely to believe |
| 0:14.5 | fake science. We'll also answer a listener question about how loud the sun is. |
| 0:19.1 | Let's satisfy some curiosity. |
| 0:21.1 | Usually we think of the internet as helping the planet. |
| 0:25.0 | E-mails save paper after all. |
| 0:28.0 | But what you may not know is that the internet is also bad for the planet. |
| 0:32.0 | It has a massive carbon footprint. Don't worry though, you can help to reduce it with a simple fix. |
| 0:38.6 | It's not stop listening to podcasts, says it? No, it is not. Although I'm just going to pretend that they said don't |
| 0:46.0 | listen to us any faster than 1X speed please. I'm just going to say that. |
| 0:50.0 | Okay. I'm already enthusiastic enough as it is. You don't need to make me talk faster. |
| 0:54.5 | Anyway, that's according to a new study, which is the first one ever to analyze the |
| 1:00.8 | Internet's many footprints. From carbon use to water and land. |
| 1:05.0 | Researchers from Purdue, Yale, and MIT were interested in how our energy use has changed during the pandemic. |
| 1:11.0 | Since the pandemic's start, lots of people have celebrated the fact |
| 1:14.6 | that our global carbon emissions are down. We're traveling less than using less |
| 1:19.0 | gasoline. But these researchers suspected that this transition to an all-digital future wasn't all good news. |
| 1:25.7 | So they looked into it. |
| 1:27.2 | They calculated the amount of carbon emitted and water and land used up with every |
| 1:31.7 | gigabyte of data on Tik-talk, Twitter, YouTube, |
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