Mother’s Day Origins, How Poor Vision Survived Natural Selection, and Muon Facts
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 963 Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2019
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Learn about what scientists know about the muon; how poor vision evolved; and why the founder of Mother’s Day Anna Jarvis regretted inventing it.
In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories to help you get smarter and learn something new in just a few minutes:
- Meet The Muon, The Electron's Short-Lived Big Brother — https://curiosity.im/2GA4WYO
- The Myopia Boom | Nature — https://curiosity.im/2XVh3Wf
- The Founder of Mother's Day Regretted Inventing It — https://curiosity.im/2GUUNGx
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| 0:00.0 | The famous five are away on a splendid weekend adventure. |
| 0:03.5 | Do we have to go home today? |
| 0:05.5 | sighed Anne. |
| 0:06.5 | I agree said Dick. |
| 0:08.0 | Even Timmy looks sad. |
| 0:09.5 | Cheer up everyone. |
| 0:11.5 | Beams Julian, I booked long weekend tickets we can return anytime on Monday |
| 0:17.0 | Oh you are clever Julian said Anne save over 50% with the long weekend a ticket from Great Western Railway. |
| 0:24.5 | Adventures start here. |
| 0:26.0 | Selected routes turn supply, saving in comparison to an anytime return fare. |
| 0:30.0 | Hi, we're here from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter in just a few minutes. I'm |
| 0:37.4 | Cody Goff. And I'm Ashley Hamer. Today you learn about what scientists know |
| 0:41.1 | about the Muon and why the founder of Mother's Day regretted inventing it. |
| 0:45.6 | We'll also answer a listener question about how poor vision evolved. |
| 0:49.4 | Let's satisfy some curiosity. |
| 0:51.4 | There are 16 elementary particles in the standard |
| 0:54.4 | model of physics. An elementary particle is a particle that can't be broken down |
| 0:58.8 | any further and today you're going to learn about one of them. I'm talking about the muon, spelled MUON. |
| 1:06.0 | Why? |
| 1:07.0 | Because scientists think it could be a pretty important particle. |
| 1:10.0 | You've heard of electrons. |
| 1:11.6 | They're the negatively charged elementary particles that swarm around the nucleus of every atom. |
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