Noise Pollution, Quantum Light, Pets & Food Allergies

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🗓️ 22 June 2023

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Today you’ll learn about how scientists finally learned how to manipulate quantum light, the effects of noise on your health, and how kids today are developing fewer food allergies.

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Noise Pollution

“Lizards at US Army installation are stress eating during flyovers” by Mischa Dijkstra
- https://blog.frontiersin.org/2023/03/29/frontiers-amphibian-reptile-science-colorado-checkered-whiptails-noise-pollution/
“Behavior, stress and metabolism of a parthenogenic lizard in response to flyover noise” by Megen E. Kepas et al.
- https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/famrs.2023.1129253/full
“The Effects of Noise on Health” by Stephanie Dutchen
- https://hms.harvard.edu/magazine/viral-world/effects-noise-health
“SOUND LIMITERS: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW” by Graeme Nash
- https://www.daftonline.co.uk/sound-limiters-weddings-need-know#:~:text=Most%20live%20amplified%20rock%20%26%20pop,NOT%20a%20%E2%80%9Ctenth%E2%80%9D%20louder.
“Noise Sources and Their Effects” by Purdue
- https://www.chem.purdue.edu/chemsafety/Training/PPETrain/dblevels.htm
“Criteria for Designating Wildlife Species of Special Concern” by Boulder County
- https://assets.bouldercounty.gov/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/bccp-designating-wildlife-species-of-special-concern-20131112.pdf
“ketones and diabetes” by Diabetes UK
- https://www.diabetes.org.uk/guide-to-diabetes/managing-your-diabetes/ketones-and-diabetes#:~:text=Ketones%20are%20a%20type%20of,without%20it%20being%20a%20problem.
“Noise pollution is hurting animals – and we don’t even know how much” by Fay E. Clark and Jacob Dunn
- https://theconversation.com/noise-pollution-is-hurting-animals-and-we-dont-even-know-how-much-186408
“Fear responses to noises in domestic dogs: Prevalence, risk factors and co-occurrence with other fear related behaviour” by Emily J. Blackwell et al.
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S016815911200367X?casa_token=hWzg_YfSMNAAAAAA:Cs1o0BRqlGssuYANFCEhFUcQ8LL5ooZdQUB_Jlqz3U8AGI42qCZ8No9bgre8Uu4nL1OpxFew
“From Soundwave to Soundscape: A Guide to Acoustic Research in Captive Animal Environments” by Fay E. Clark and Jacob C. Dunn
- https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fvets.2022.889117/full

Quantum Light

“Scientists Finally Manipulate Quantum Light, Fulfilling Einstein's 107-Year-Old Dream” by Tim Newcomb
- https://news.yahoo.com/scientists-finally-manipulate-quantum-light-141000650.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cucmVkZGl0LmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAMtAq9Zay0TzKLyKHnDSFVvL1q1Qr6j4nprKUiAZulzrf-tBjMbBscJ5NSdVhSFp9-mowNuQhLKbYq0hbUzaEyHjGb9P6mlKJV6nKce9FYpYYImaIqQUQtbUibDtYY5A6oU0IpPoVGuxAdCg5mZsXp2FfzfakXBzE-adQwZsOjSe
“Photon bound state dynamics from a single artificial atom” by Natasha Tomm et al.
- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-023-01997-6?utm_medium=affiliate&utm_source=commission_junction&utm_campaign=CONR_PF018_ECOM_GL_PHSS_ALWYS_DEEPLINK&utm_content=textlink&utm_term=PID100107765&CJEVENT=55514f92cfe911ed811000e50a1cb829
“Scientists open door to manipulating 'quantum light'” by The University of Sydney
- https://www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2023/03/21/scientists-open-door-to-manipulating-quantum-light-usyd-physics.html
“Spontaneous emission” by Wikipedia
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spontaneous_emission
“This Month in Physics History” by APSNews
- https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/200508/history.cfm

Pets & Food Allergies

“Preschoolers with pets have fewer food allergies” by PLOS
- https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/preschoolers-with-pets-have-fewer-food-allergies
“Unique trackway on Permian Karoo shoreline provides evidence of temnospondyl locomotory behaviour” by David P. Groenewald et al.
- https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0282354
“Living with cats or dogs may lower children’s risk of food allergies” By Dan Hurley
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/parenting/2023/03/29/dogs-cats-children-food-allergies/

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0:00.0	Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Discovery.
0:09.0	Time flies when you're learning super cool stuff.
0:11.0	I'm Nate.
0:12.0	And I'm Callie. If you're dropping in for the first time
0:13.6	welcome to curiosity where we aim to blow your mind by hoping you to grow your mind.
0:17.3	If you're loyal listener, welcome back. Today you'll learn about how scientists finally
0:21.6	learn how to manipulate quantum light. The effects of about how
0:23.0	quantum light,
0:24.0	the effects of noise on your health,
0:27.0	and how kids today are developing fewer food allergies.
0:30.0	Without further I do, let's satisfy some curiosity.
0:34.0	Noise pollution is something that can really mess a person up.
0:37.0	Beyond the general annoyance surrounding constant sound,
0:40.0	prolonged exposure to noise pollution can cause everything from tinnitus to hearing loss to even more terrible physical conditions like type two diabetes and memory impairment
0:49.5	And if it does all that to a human imagine what it could do to an animal.
0:54.0	Okay, I didn't know it was like that with noise pollution.
0:56.2	I mean, we've talked before about how it can like exacerbate depression
0:59.8	and other mental health issues,
1:01.4	but it's that bad? Yeah, and it gets even worse for animals. One of the most
1:05.2	recent studies on this was on a relatively rare lizard known as the Colorado Checkard
1:09.6	whiptail. The lizards in this study lived near Fort Carson, which is a military base in Colorado,
1:14.7	with a lot of air traffic from military aircraft. Air traffic, in case you didn't know,
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