Internet Chip, Tomato Diet, Wrong Time Meds

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Self-improvement, Science, Astronomy, Education

4.6 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2023

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Today we discuss how a new piece of technology is able to transfer the data of the entire internet in just one second, how eating a lot of tomatoes can improve your gut health, and how scientists are looking into how medicine is processed in the body at different times of day.

Internet Chip

“Record-breaking chip can transmit entire internet's traffic per second” By Michael Irving
- https://newatlas.com/telecommunications/optical-chip-fastest-data-transmission-record-entire-internet-traffic/
“Petabit-per-second data transmission using a chip-scale microcomb ring resonator source” by A. A. Jørgensen et al.
- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41566-022-01082-z
“A New Chip Is Capable of Transmitting All of the Internet's Traffic Every Second” by Anthony Wood
- https://www.ign.com/articles/world-record-data-transfer-internet-chip

Tomato Diet

“Tracing tomatoes’ health benefits to gut microbes” by Emily Caldwell
- https://news.osu.edu/tracing-tomatoes-health-benefits-to-gut-microbes/
“Short-Term Tomato Consumption Alters the Pig Gut Microbiome toward a More Favorable Profile” by Mallory L. Goggans et al.
- https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/spectrum.02506-22

Wrong Time Meds

“New insights into the harms of taking medicines at the wrong time of day” By Rich Haridy
- https://newatlas.com/science/circadian-sedative-heart-damage-drug-time-day-dose/
“Timing matters for medications – your circadian rhythm influences how well treatments work and how much they might harm you” by Tobias Eckle
- https://theconversation.com/timing-matters-for-medications-your-circadian-rhythm-influences-how-well-treatments-work-and-how-much-they-might-harm-you-194906
“How circadian disruptions promote tumor growth and timing of cancer drugs may be vital” By Rich Haridy
- https://newatlas.com/circadian-cancer-tumor-night-shift-chronotherapy/59498/?itm_source=newatlas&itm_medium=article-body
“Anti-inflammatory drugs slow healing, if taken at wrong time of day” By Rich Haridy
- https://newatlas.com/medical/anti-inflammatory-drugs-impair-bone-healing-circadian-clock/?itm_source=newatlas&itm_medium=article-body
“Time-of-day dependent effects of midazolam administration on myocardial injury in non-cardiac surgery” by Meghan Prin et al.
- https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcvm.2022.982209/full

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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.
0:11.0	I'm Nate.
0:12.0	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.
0:17.6	If you're a loyal listener, welcome back. Today you'll learn about how a new piece of
0:21.4	technology is able to transfer the data of the entire internet in just one second.
0:26.7	How eating a lot of tomatoes can improve your gut health and how scientists are looking into how medicine is processed in the body at different times of the day.
0:36.0	Without further ado, let's satisfy some curiosity.
0:39.0	Okay, Nate, what if I told you that there is now a way to download 230 million photos in one second?
0:47.0	Well, I would say that I don't really have any need for 230 million photos. I don't think I could possibly
0:55.0	store them and I would also be surprised to hear that there's any network on
0:59.2	earth fast enough to send that much data. Okay, so maybe not yet, but there will be soon.
1:05.0	I am gonna back you up real quick though and just say that I absolutely think I could take that many photos of my cats.
1:11.0	Anyways.
1:12.0	An international team of scientists have set a
1:15.4	new record for fastest data transfer ever. They created a custom computer
1:20.4	chip that can send 1.8 pedibits of data in one second.
1:24.3	All right, that is a lot. Let's go over for a minute how much that is for our
1:29.7	listeners because... I could hardly grasp this number. Yeah, without doing some research, I didn't really have a good sense of this.
1:35.0	So a pedabit is the equivalent of 1 million gigabits.
1:39.0	And a gigabit is the equivalent of 1000 megabits. It goes on in stacks like that. All of these words with the suffix bit are measurements of file size, so we're talking about time and space for how fast data travels from one point to another.
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