Kickstart Your Memory with the Jennifer Aniston Neuron, Black Hole Pictures, and Increasing Human Lifespans
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 963 Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2018
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Learn how fast human lifespans are increasing; why we’ve never seen a black hole; and recent research into the “Jennifer Aniston neuron” that could help you kickstart your memory.
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In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter and learn something new in just a few minutes:
- Here's Just How Fast Human Lifespans Are Increasing — https://curiosity.im/2EcqGKD
- Why Have We Still Never Seen a Black Hole? — https://curiosity.im/2EhQipk
- You Probably Have a Jennifer Aniston Neuron — https://curiosity.im/2EdMllp
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, we've got three stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter in just a few minutes. |
| 0:05.4 | I'm Cody Gough. |
| 0:06.4 | And I'm Ashley Hamer. |
| 0:07.4 | Today you learn how fast human life spans are increasing, why we've never seen a black hole, and new brain research that could help you |
| 0:14.5 | kick-start your memory. |
| 0:15.9 | Let's satisfy some curiosity on the award-winning Curiosity Daily. |
| 0:19.7 | We all know human life spans are getting longer, but do you know how much longer? |
| 0:23.7 | New research suggests that human life spans are increasing by approximately three years |
| 0:28.8 | every generation, and it's a trend that shouldn't be going away anytime soon. |
| 0:33.4 | This is good news for you Ashley. Do you want to live a really long time? |
| 0:36.1 | I think I do. As long as I'm healthy while I do it, yeah. |
| 0:38.8 | Hail and hearty, I prefer. |
| 0:40.8 | Exactly. Because I'm from the 1600s. |
| 0:44.0 | Well, as reported by futurity, |
| 0:47.0 | Stanford researchers analyzed the average age of death and people who lived to be over 65 in developed countries. |
| 0:54.0 | They looked at 50 years of lifespan data, |
| 0:56.0 | and the takeaway was clear. |
| 0:58.0 | We can expect longer lives, |
| 1:00.0 | and there's no sign of a slowdown in the trend. |
| 1:02.0 | Specifically, the average age of death and those... and there's no sign of a slowdown in the trend. |
| 1:02.8 | Specifically, the average age of death and those who live to be older than 65 |
| 1:07.2 | increased by about three years in every 25 year period. |
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