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Human Diversity, Ancient Tool Use, Deep Sea Discoveries

Curiosity Weekly

Warner Bros. Discovery

Self-improvement, Science, Astronomy, Education

4.6935 Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Happy 300 episodes to our Curiosity Daily listeners! Today, you’ll learn about a massive database of human genomes that’s uncovering major new genetic discoveries, the scientists building stone age tools from scratch… and then putting them to work, and a treasure trove of deep sea discoveries in an underwater mountain range.  

 

Human Diversity  

 

  • “Ambitious survey of human diversity yields millions of undiscovered genetic variants.” by Max Kozlov. 2024.  
  • “NIH’s All of Us Research Program Releases First Genomic Dataset of Nearly 100,000 Whole Genome Sequences.” NIH. 2022.  
  • “About.” NIH. 2021. 

 

Ancient Tool Use 

 

  • “Scientists try out stone age tools to understand how they were used.” EurekAlert! 2024.  
  • “Experiments with replicas of Early Upper Paleolithic edge-ground stone axes and adzes provide criteria for identifying tool functions.” by Akira Iwase, et al. 2024.  

 

Deep Sea Discoveries 

 

 

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0:00.0

Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Discovery.

0:08.8

Time flies when you're learning super cool stuff. I'm Nate.

0:11.6

And I'm Callie. If you're dropping in for the first time

0:13.9

welcome to curiosity where we aim to blow your mind by helping you to grow your mind. If you're a loyal

0:18.4

listener, welcome back. And for those of us keeping track, happy 300th episode of Curiosity Daily.

0:24.8

We couldn't do it without you, the listener, so thank you from everyone here at Curiosity for

0:29.2

tuning in each week.

0:30.5

Today, you'll learn about a massive database of human genomes that's uncovering major new genetic discoveries,

0:37.0

the scientists building stone age tools from scratch and then putting them to work,

0:41.0

and a treasure trove of deep sea discoveries in an

0:44.0

underwater mountain range. Without further ado, let's satisfy some curiosity.

0:49.2

An endeavor initiated by the National Institutes of Health called the

0:52.2

All of Us Research Program

0:53.7

is aiming to gather the genomic and health data from over a million people

0:57.6

and they're off to a good start so far they've gathered almost a quarter of a

1:01.1

million genomes.

1:02.1

Geez that is a ton of data.

1:04.4

I mean, that's almost like a treasure trope.

1:06.8

What are they planning to do with all of it?

1:09.2

That is actually where the story gets really interesting.

1:11.3

So they've just revealed that out of those

1:13.1

nearly 250,000 genomes they have identified over 275 million new genetic

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