Mon. 06/07 - Squids In Space & Why Vaccine Lotteries Work

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Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

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🗓️ 7 June 2021

⏱️ 20 minutes

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SpaceX just delivered a bunch of tardigrades and baby squids to the International Space Station. New research finding pupil size is an indicator of intelligence. And why it seems like vaccine lotteries are actually working. Sponsor: Indeed, Get a free $75 credit at Indeed.com/goodnews Links: Why NASA Is Blasting Water Bears And Bobtail Squid Into Space (NPR) NASA Squid In SpaceX Mission To International Space Station (Jalopnik) SpaceX’s 22nd Commercial Resupply Mission to Space Station (NASA) NASA’s Juno probe will get close to Jupiter’s moon Ganymede on Monday (The Verge) Pupil Size Is a Marker of Intelligence (Scientific American) FDA approves first drug to slow decline of Alzheimer’s disease (Washington Post) Wait, Vaccine Lotteries Actually Work? (Wired) A 6-Year-Old Requested A Birthday Cake Showing The Beheading Of Anne Boleyn And That’s Exactly What She Got (Buzzfeed News) Girl, 3, requests morbid 'Lion King' scene on birthday cake so she can have it all to herself (NBC News) Kottke.Org Jackson Bird on Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.7	Welcome to the Kotky Ride Home for Monday, June 7th, 2021. I'm Jackson Bird.
0:42.1	SpaceX just delivered a bunch of tardigrades and baby squids to the International Space Station.
0:48.9	New research finding pupil size is an indicator of intelligence.
0:54.1	And why it seems like vaccine lotteries are actually working.
0:59.9	Here are some of the cool things from the news today.
1:06.2	Tardigrades and cephalopods. Those were the VIPs on board SpaceX's 22nd cargo resupply mission to the
1:13.9	International Space Station this past Thursday. Like other strange species that get blasted off our
1:19.5	planet on the regular, these little dudes are taking the trip so that scientists can study how
1:24.5	spaceflight and microgravity affects the organisms, with the ultimate
1:28.4	goal of learning more about how those conditions also affect the other main biological denizens
1:33.7	of space, the astronauts. Quoting NASA, tardigrades, known as water bears due to their appearance
1:41.0	under a microscope and common habitat in water, are tiny creatures that tolerate environments more extreme than most life forms can.
1:49.2	That makes them a model organism for studying biological survival under extreme conditions on Earth and in space.
1:55.8	In addition, researchers have sequenced the genome of the tardigrade and developed methods for measuring how different environmental conditions affect tardigrade gene expression. The results could
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