NASA’s Cryosleep Chambers, Your Brain on Puns, and Why Red Delicious Apples Exist

Curiosity Weekly

Warner Bros. Discovery

Self-improvement, Science, Astronomy, Education

4.6 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2018

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

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:

NASA Is Working on Cryosleep Chambers for Astronauts
"Getting" Puns Means Both Sides of Your Brain Are Working Together
Why Red Delicious Are the Most Popular, Most Terrible Apple

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0:00.0	Hi, we've got three stories from curiosity
0:02.8	dot com to help you get smarter in just a few minutes.
0:05.0	I'm Cody Gough.
0:05.8	And I'm Ashley Hamer.
0:07.0	Today you learn how your brain processes puns,
0:09.6	why Red Delicious are the most popular,
0:11.8	most terrible apple,
0:13.6	and the latest updates on how close we are
0:15.3	to inventing Cryosleep Chambers for astronauts.
0:18.3	That's set us for some curiosity.
0:19.8	Cody, have you ever seen 2001 A Space Odyssey?
0:22.3	I've seen it three times. Wow. Have you? I've seen it three times.
0:24.0	Have you?
0:25.0	That's a lot of movie.
0:26.0	I have a really hard time staying awake during very long movies and that is a very long movie.
0:32.0	And there's no dialogue for more than the first 20 minutes.
0:34.6	Yeah. So is there any way you lasted more than 10?
0:37.5	Oh, no, it's, it's so hard. I gotta try again. It's a classic, I know.
0:42.4	Yeah, every time I've seen it, I've had to try again. It's a classic I know. Yeah every time I've seen it I've had a different reaction. I'll love it and then the next time I see it
0:47.1	I'll really not like it. It's a strange film. Well that movie is one of lots of sci-fi stories with deep sleep chambers, which put astronauts
0:56.0	to sleep for months at a time while their ships travel to distant galaxies.
0:59.8	Well, guess what?
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