Human Venom, Car Battery Blues, Magic and Personalities

Curiosity Weekly

Warner Bros. Discovery

Self-improvement, Science, Astronomy, Education

4.6 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2022

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Today, you’ll learn about how humans could potentially evolve to be venomous, the challenges of repurposing used electric car batteries, and how people who hate magic are more likely to have certain socially aversive traits, like needing to control social situations.

The good and the bad side of snake venom.

“Could Humans Ever be Venomous?” by Stephanie Pappas
- https://www.livescience.com/could-humans-be-venomous.html
“How Snake Venom Kills… and Saves Lives” by James Paterson
- https://letstalkscience.ca/educational-resources/stem-in-context/how-snake-venom-kills-and-saves-lives
“Protein Folding: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly” by Harvard University
- https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2010/issue65/
“This Animal Can Kill 10 Grown Men, But Its Body Adapted To Save Itself” by Tara Yarlagadda
- https://www.inverse.com/science/the-strange-reason-why-poisonous-animals-survive-their-own-toxins

A new era for batteries.

“Cars are Going Electric. What Happens to the Used Batteries?” by Gregory Barber and Aarian Marshall
- https://www.wired.com/story/cars-going-electric-what-happens-used-batteries/
“Transportation of Electric Vehicle Lithium-ion Batteries at End-of-life: A Literature Review” by Margaret Slattery, Jessica Dunn, and Alissa Kendall
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921344921003645
“Global Implications of the EU Battery Regulation” by Hans Eric Melin, Mohammad Ali Rajaeifar, Anthony Y. Ku, Alissa Kendall, Gavin Harper, and Oliver Heidrich
- https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abh1416
“The Lithium Mine Versus the Wildflower” by Gregory Barber
- https://www.wired.com/story/lithium-mine-for-batteries-versus-the-wildflower/

Who hates magic?!

“People who hate magic tend to be higher in socially aversive traits, according to new research” By Mane Kara-Yakouabian
- https://www.psypost.org/2022/04/people-who-hate-magic-are-higher-in-socially-aversive-traits-according-to-new-research-62968
“Who hates magic? Exploring the loathing of legerdemain.” By Paul J. Silvia et al.
- https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2022-45549-001

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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 in for the first
0:14.1	time, welcome to curiosity where we aim to blow your mind by helping you to grow your mind.
0:18.0	If you're a loyal listener, welcome back. Today you'll learn about how humans could
0:22.0	potentially evolve to be venomous, the challenges of repurposing used electric car batteries and how people who hate magic are more likely to have certain socially aversive of traits, like needing to control social situations.
0:35.0	Without further ado, let's satisfy some curiosity.
0:38.0	Man, I can't wait to have my own venomous.
0:41.0	Uh, what?
0:42.0	Turns out it's possible for humans to become venomous just like other animals.
0:45.0	Oh, and here I thought I'd never have anything in common with a rattlesnake.
0:49.0	I mean, your knees do kind of rattle when you stand up.
0:52.0	Well, I'm getting older by the day.
0:54.0	Thanks for reminding me.
0:55.0	So wait, how would humans be able to develop venom?
0:58.0	It all comes down to the genes in our salivary glands.
1:01.0	Biologists have long known that oral venom
1:03.0	glands are just modified from typical salavery ones, but there's new
1:06.1	evidence that shows a complex system of molecular mechanics at work behind the
1:09.9	change. Ooh, molecular mechanics are my favorite type. I'll grab my molecular socket wrench.
1:15.0	Let's take a look under the hood of venomous animals.
1:18.0	Certain toxins in venom are actually quite common across very different species.
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