Octopus Culture, Schizophrenia Origins, Killing Cancer

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🗓️ 15 September 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Learn about octopi forming communities, clues to the origins of schizophrenia, and a new compound giving researchers hope for fighting tough to treat cancers.

Octopus Culture

“Hidden World of Octopus Cities and Culture Shows why it’s Wrong to Farm These Sentient Creatures” by Guardian Magazine
- https://www.guardianmag.press/2022/04/hidden-world-of-octopus-cities-and-culture-shows-why-its-wrong-to-farm-these-sentient-creatures.html/
“The question of animal emotions” by Frans B. M. De Waal and Kristin Andrews
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abo2378
“Why octopuses are building small “cities” off the coast of Australia” by Annalee Newitz
- https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/09/why-octopuses-are-building-small-cities-off-the-coast-of-australia/
“A second site occupied by Octopus tetricus at high densities, with notes on their ecology and behavior” by David Scheel, et al.
- https://doi.org/10.1080/10236244.2017.1369851
Animal Culture by Zhana Reznikova
- https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1428-6_745

Schizophrenia Origins

“Landmark Study Reveals Clearest Genetic Signals Yet for Schizophrenia Risk” by Rutgers Research
- https://research.rutgers.edu/news/landmark-study-reveals-clearest-genetic-signals-yet-schizophrenia-risk
“Mapping genomic loci implicates genes and synaptic biology in schizophrenia” by Vassily Trubetskoy, et al.
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-04434-5
“What is Schizophrenia?” by The American Psychiatric Association
- https://psychiatry.org/patients-families/schizophrenia/what-is-schizophrenia
“What is a Gene?” by Medline Plus
- https://medlineplus.gov/genetics/understanding/basics/gene/#:~:text=A%20gene%20is%20the%20basic,more%20than%202%20million%20bases

Killing Cancer

“Promising Compound Kills Range Of Hard-To-Treat Cancers By Targeting A Previously Undiscovered Vulnerability” by UT Southwestern Medical Center
- https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2022/hard-to-treat-cancers.html
“Targeting LIPA independent of its lipase activity is a therapeutic strategy in solid tumors via induction of endoplasmic reticulum stress” by Xihui Liu, Suryavathi Viswanadhapalli, Shourya Kumar, Tae-Kyung Lee, Andrew Moore, Shihong Ma, Liping Chen, Michael Hsieh, Mengxing Li, Gangadhara R. Sareddy, Karla Parra, Eliot B. Blatt, Tanner C. Reese, Yuting Zhao, Annabel Chang, Hui Yan, Zhenming Xu, Uday P. Pratap, Zexuan Liu, Carlos M. Roggero, Zhenqiu Tan, Susan T. Weintraub, Yan Peng, Rajeshwar R. Tekmal, Carlos L. Arteaga, Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, Ratna K. Vadlamudi, Jung-Mo Ahn & Ganesh V. Raj.
- https://www.nature.com/articles/s43018-022-00389-8
“Scientists Discover New Molecule That Kills Hard-to-Treat Cancers” By Amanda Siegfried
- https://news.utdallas.edu/health-medicine/new-molecule-cancer-cell-killer-2022/

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0:00.0	Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Discovery.
0:08.0	Time flies when you're learning super cool stuff. I'm Nate.
0:11.0	And I'm Callie. If you're dropping in for the first time welcome to curiosity
0:14.7	where we aim to blow your mind by helping you to grow your mind if you're a loyal
0:17.8	listener welcome back today you'll learn about octopai forming communities
0:21.6	clues to the origins of schizophrenia, and a new compound
0:25.4	giving researchers hope for fighting tough to treat cancers.
0:28.8	Without further ado, let's satisfy some curiosity.
0:31.4	All right, we have talked about octopus before,
0:34.1	but I've got a story today about how they might be even smarter
0:37.1	than we previously thought.
0:38.8	Even smarter, I thought they were already one of the world's most
0:41.9	intelligent creatures.
0:43.0	Oh sure, but new research is giving us new info about their social intelligence.
0:47.5	They not only have emotions and sentience, but new research is showing us they create complex
0:51.7	social hierarchies and change their behavior to fit into them.
0:55.4	We now have to consider if Octopie might have culture.
0:58.4	This is raising complicated questions about eating octopus, especially as worldwide demands for the meat increases.
1:04.0	All right well I personally don't eat octopus because I think that sounds gross
1:08.5	but a lot of people do. Is this story going to ruin that for them?
1:13.0	Well, it might, myself included.
1:16.0	There are around 300 species of octopus,
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