Lightning Material, Typing Stress, Domesticated Elephants

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🗓️ 5 July 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Today you’ll learn about how a bolt of lightning created a brand new, never before seen material, how researchers can tell how stressed you are by listening to you type on your keyboard, and a new study that suggests elephants are more like humans than we ever thought.

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Lightning Material

“USF geoscientist discovers new phosphorus material after New Port Richey lightning strike.” by Cassidy Delamarter. 2023.
- https://www.usf.edu/news/2023/usf-geoscientist-discovers-new-phosphorus-material-after-new-port-richey-lightning-strike.aspx
“Routes to reduction of phosphate by high-energy events.” by Luca Bindi, et al. 2023.
- https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-023-00736-2
“Lightning.” National Geographic. N.d.
- https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/lightning?loggedin=true&rnd=1681824031573

Typing Stress

“Detecting stress in the office from how people type and click.” by Christoph Elhardt. 2023.
- https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2023/04/detecting-stress-in-the-office-from-how-people-type-and-click.html
“Workplace Stress.” OSHA. N.D.
- https://www.osha.gov/workplace-stress

Domesticated Elephants

“Elephants may be domesticating themselves.” by Virginia Morell. 2023.
- https://www.science.org/content/article/elephants-may-be-domesticating-themselves
“Elephants as an animal model for self-domestication.” by Limor Raviv, et al. 2023.
- https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2208607120
“You Asked: How are pets different from wild animals?” by Katherine J. Wu. 2018.
- https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2018/asked-pets-different-wild-animals/

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0:48.6	your mind by helping you to grow your mind. If you're a loyal listener, welcome back.
0:52.4	Today you'll learn about how a bolt of lightning created your mind. If you're a loyal listener, welcome back.
0:53.0	Today you'll learn about how a bolt of lightning created a brand new never before seen material,
0:58.1	about how researchers can tell how stressed you are by listening to you type on your keyboard, and a new study that suggests elephants are more like humans than we ever thought.
1:07.0	Without further ado, let's satisfy some curiosity.
1:11.0	Did you know that a bolt of lightning shoots through the atmosphere around 30,000 times
1:15.4	faster than a bullet and can top out at 54,000 degrees Fahrenheit? That's about five times
1:21.6	the temperature of the surface of the sun.
1:24.0	Okay, I know it was hot and fast, but that is really hot and really fast.
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