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Curiosity Weekly

How Loud Is the Sun?

Curiosity Weekly

Warner Bros. Discovery

Science

4.6964 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

You'll Probably Believe Fake Science if It Comes With a Brain Image by Ashley Hamer

How loud is the sun? by Ashley Hamer (Listener question from Noro)

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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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