New Obesity Definition, New Snake and Spider Identified, and TDIH - the "Father of American Rollercoasters"

Cool Stuff Ride Home

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

News, Tech News, Science, Society & Culture

4.6 • 732 Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

The revised definition of obesity and a new species of snake and spider there were announced decades after being found. Plus, on This Day in History, the "Father of American Rollercoasters". BMI Sidelined in New Obesity Definition That Favors Health Evaluation | Scientific American New species of house snake discovered in Ethiopia: photo | Miami Herald New snake species found 20 years after initial sighting in Ethiopia - Science - News - Daily Express US Scientists discover new ‘unusually large’ species of one of world’s deadliest spiders | The Independent 'Big boy' spider becomes Australia's largest and deadliest arachnid after surprise discovery | Live Science The world’s most venomous spider is a species complex: systematics of the Sydney funnel-web spider (Atracidae: Atrax robustus) | BMC Ecology and Evolution | Full Text History of LaMarcus Thompson's Scenic Railway Roller Coasters at Coney Island La Marcus Edna Thompson | Coney Island History Project OH native was inventor of the roller coaster Contact the show - [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Ready to launch your business? Get started with the commerce platform made for entrepreneurs.
0:04.8	Shopify is specially designed to help you start, run and grow your business with easy customizable
0:10.4	themes that let you build your brand, marketing tools that get your products out there.
0:14.7	Integrated shipping solutions that actually save you time. From startups to scaleups, online,
0:20.1	in person and on the go Shopify is made for
0:22.8	entrepreneurs like you sign up for your one dollar a month trial at shopify.com
0:27.7	slash setup welcome back to cool stuff ride home where we bring you some of the more
0:34.6	fascinating stories from around the world whether it be from science or technology or whatever it's just cool out there. We bring you on Cool
0:42.2	Stuff Ride Home. I'm Redger-R-Zoo alongside Marcus Paff on today's episode, the revised definition
0:47.4	of obesity and the new species of snake and spider that were announced decades after being found.
0:53.5	Plus on this day in history, the father of roller coasters.
0:56.0	That's all coming up on cool stuff.
0:59.0	Turning to author Georgia Guglielmi and Nature Magazine via Scientific American.
1:05.0	Amid the rising buzz around O-Zempic and similar weight loss drugs,
1:09.0	a group of 58 researchers is challenging the way obesity is defined and diagnosed,
1:14.7	arguing that current methods fail to capture the complexity of the condition.
1:18.6	They offer a more nuanced approach.
1:20.7	The group's revised definition published in The Lancet, Diabetes and Endocrinology on on January 14th focuses on how excess body fat, a measure
1:30.2	called adiposity, affects the body, rather than relying only on body mass index, BMI, which links
1:36.7	a person's weight to their height. They propose two categories, pre-clinical obesity, when a person
1:42.2	has extra body fat but their organs work normally, and clinical
1:46.1	obesity, when excess fat harms the body's organs and tissues. This shift would improve clinical care,
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.