How Summer Affects COVID-19, Why So Many Mars Missions Are Launching in July, and Exercise More by Copying Your Friends
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🗓️ 6 July 2020
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Learn about whether summer will help or hurt the coronavirus pandemic; why so many Mars missions like Mars 2020 are launching this summer; and how you might inspire yourself to exercise more by copying your friends.
Will summer help or hurt the COVID-19 pandemic? by Andrea Michelson
- Heat and humidity battle sunshine for influence over the spread of COVID-19, research. (2020). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-06/mu-hah060920.php
- Paez, A., Lopez, F. A., Menezes, T., Cavalcanti, R., & Pitta, M. G. da R. (2020). A Spatio‐Temporal Analysis of the Environmental Correlates of COVID‐19 Incidence in Spain. Geographical Analysis. https://doi.org/10.1111/gean.12241
Why so many Mars missions are launching this summer by Cameron Duke
- Jones, A. (2020). Here’s Where and How We Think China Will Land on Mars. IEEE Spectrum: Technology, Engineering, and Science News. https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/aerospace/robotic-exploration/where-how-china-mars-mission-news
- Emirates Mars Mission (Hope). (2020). Nasa.gov. https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=EMM-HOPE
- July 2019, M. W. 25. (n.d.). 4 Mars Missions Are One Year Away from Launching to the Red Planet in July 2020. Space.Com. Retrieved June 17, 2020, from https://www.space.com/4-mars-missions-one-year-from-july-2020-launch.html
- Let’s Go to Mars! Calculating Launch Windows Activity | NASA/JPL Edu. (2019, November 19). NASA/JPL Edu. https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/teach/activity/lets-go-to-mars-calculating-launch-windows/
- NASA - Aiming for an Open Window. (2011). Nasa.gov. https://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/launchingrockets/launchwindows.html
- What is a “launch window”? (2013). Esa.int. https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/What_is_a_launch_window
Copying your friends' workout strategies may help you exercise more by Steffie Drucker
- Struggling To Stick To A Workout Routine? Copying Your Friends Might Help. (2020, June 11). Research Digest; Research Digest. https://digest.bps.org.uk/2020/06/11/struggling-to-stick-to-a-workout-routine-copying-your-friends-might-help/
- Copy-Paste Prompts: A New Nudge to Promote Goal Achievement | Journal of the Association for Consumer Research: Ahead of Print. (2020). Journal of the Association for Consumer Research. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/708880
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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. |
| 0:06.2 | I'm Cody Gough. And I'm Ashley Hamer. Today you learn about whether summer will help or |
| 0:10.4 | hurt the coronavirus pandemic, |
| 0:12.7 | why so many Mars missions are launching this summer, |
| 0:15.4 | and how you might inspire yourself to exercise more |
| 0:18.2 | by copying your friends. |
| 0:20.3 | Let's satisfy some curiosity. As summer arrives in the northern hemisphere, you might be wondering if the heat will have any effect on the spread of COVID-19. |
| 0:30.0 | We know some viruses, like the common cold and the seasonal flu, typically thrive in colder weather and die out when it gets warm. |
| 0:37.5 | But until recently, we didn't really know how the novel coronavirus would respond to the heat. |
| 0:43.8 | An international team of researchers based at McMaster University decided to investigate this question. |
| 0:49.6 | And the answer may be bad news for beachgoers. |
| 0:53.0 | For their study, the team turned to data from the early stages of the pandemic in Spain. |
| 0:59.0 | They gathered information about the weather and the spread of disease from the 30 days before Spain declared a state of emergency, |
| 1:05.2 | from mid-March to April. Then they analyzed the relationship between temperature, |
| 1:10.0 | humidity, sunlight, and new cases of COVID-19. Their findings show a tricky dual relationship between summer |
| 1:17.6 | weather and coronavirus transmission. On one hand, they found that high heat and humidity were associated with decreased viral |
| 1:25.2 | spread. For every percentage increase in heat and humidity, they saw a 3% decrease in new cases of COVID-19. |
| 1:33.0 | But while the virus might not like summer weather, |
| 1:36.0 | we humans love it. |
| 1:38.0 | And that's making it especially easy |
| 1:40.0 | for the virus to spread on sunny days. The researchers found coronavirus transmission was greater on days with more hours of sunshine, |
| 1:48.0 | possibly because people are more likely to go outside and mingle on a nice day. |
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