Indigenous Climate Solutions, Virus Thaw, AI Brain Implant
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 935 Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2025
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
When tackling solutions to climate change, we tend to focus on westernized approaches rather than listening to Indigenous Peoples about the best ways to protect our earth. So, today, just in time for Earth Day, Dr. Samantha Yammine speaks with Dr. Myrle Ballard about natural resource and environmental management from Indigenous perspectives. Then, Sam gets into a new AI-powered brain implant that was able to translate thought into speech and how thawing permafrost in the arctic has the potential to release ancient viruses.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, this Earth Day 2025, we're digging into how our changing planet is uncovering stories |
| 0:08.6 | from the past, flipping what we thought we knew on its head and showing us how to move forward |
| 0:13.6 | smarter. Let's get real. The big celebration that was once Earth Day has just kind of |
| 0:19.5 | fade into the background. And now it's less about |
| 0:22.0 | one big day and more about what's happening right now. Whether anyone cares, who are the people |
| 0:28.1 | paying attention and who's actually doing something about it? So we're leaning into that. |
| 0:33.7 | This is Curiosity Weekly from Warner Brothers Discovery. I'm Dr. Samantha Amin. |
| 0:38.7 | This episode is about what our planet is coughing up, literally, and what it's trying to tell us. |
| 0:44.6 | When I say coughing, I really mean it. |
| 0:46.7 | Like in the Arctic, there's melting permafrost that's burping up ancient viruses, |
| 0:51.1 | like tens of thousands of years old. |
| 0:53.7 | If you're your mouth, this isn't just bad news for the tundra, it could mess with you too. |
| 0:58.4 | There's a chain reaction that reshapes ecosystems, which is why a Canadian First Nations climate |
| 1:03.7 | scientist joins me to talk about climate solutions through an indigenous lens. |
| 1:08.5 | Oh, and last thing, an AI-powered brain computer interface has given a paralyzed |
| 1:13.5 | woman the ability to speak again by translating her brain signals into words in real time. |
| 1:19.9 | So let's get into it. |
| 1:23.8 | Here's a chilling new development, literally from the top of the world. |
| 1:29.0 | Scientists are sounding the alarm over something we might not immediately link to climate change, |
| 1:33.9 | the spread of infectious diseases in the Arctic. Hooray! |
| 1:38.7 | A new paper, led by an international group of researchers and published in Science of the Total Environment, |
| 1:45.2 | argues that global warming is reshaping the Arctic, |
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