Orangu-slang, Easing Car Queasing, Kicked Across Space

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4.6 • 963 Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2022

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Today, you’ll learn about how orangutans use slang a lot like we do, what causes and can alleviate everyday motion sickness, and how one black hole kicked another across the galaxy.

Orangutans are dope.

“Orangutans use Slang to Show off Their “Coolness”, Study Suggests" by Nicola Davis
- https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/mar/21/orangutans-use-slang-to-show-off-their-coolness-study-suggests
“Orangutan Squeaks Reveal Language Evolution Says Study" by Victoria Gill
- https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-38907681
“What did Language Grow From? Ape Hands, Mouths, or Both? – Kristen Marie Gillespie-Lynch, Emily Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, Heidi Lyn, and Patricia Greenfield
- https://kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frym.2019.00061
“Apes Communicate, Humans Have Language" by Max Planck Institute
- https://www.cbs.mpg.de/research-topics/language-interview

A solution beyond not looking at your phone.

“How To Fight Motion Sickness — And The Scientific Reason Some People Suffer More” By Saima Rajasingam
- https://www.inverse.com/mind-body/motion-sickness-treatment
“A study of cybersickness and sensory conflict theory using a motion-coupled virtual reality system” by Adrian K.T. Ng, Leith K.Y. Chan, Henry Y.K. Lau
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0141938218300301

Soccer but with black holes.

“Gravitational waves gave a new black hole a high-speed ‘kick’” By Emily Conover
- https://www.sciencenews.org/article/black-hole-gravitational-waves-kick-ligo-merger-spacetime
“A black hole formed by a lopsided merger may have gone rogue” By Robert Lea
- https://www.space.com/black-hole-escaping-galaxy-from-collision
“Ripples in spacetime: Science's 2016 Breakthrough of the Year” by Adrian Cho
- https://www.science.org/content/article/ripples-spacetime-sciences-2016-breakthrough-year
“How Scientists Captured the First Image of a Black Hole” by Ota Lutz
- https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/news/2019/4/19/how-scientists-captured-the-first-image-of-a-black-hole/
“What is an Interferometer?” by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory
- https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/page/what-is-interferometer

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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. I'm Nate.
0:12.0	And I'm Callie. If you're dropping in for the first time
0:14.2	welcome to curiosity where we aim to blow your mind by helping you to grow your mind.
0:17.9	If you're a loyal listener, welcome back. Today you'll learn about how orangutans use slang a lot like we do, what causes and can alleviate everyday motion sickness,
0:28.0	and how one black hole kicked another across the galaxy.
0:32.0	Without further ado, let's satisfy some curiosity.
0:35.6	Kali, do you want to hear about something particularly dope?
0:38.7	Was it something super cool?
0:41.3	It's about how Orangutans use their own slang to communicate with each other.
0:44.8	The way humans do, that's fresh.
0:47.7	Well, not using our language, but pretty similar.
0:50.6	Orangutans have over 5,000 kiss squeaks.
0:54.0	Okay, I don't think I've heard that slang term before.
0:57.0	And honestly, I'm kind of afraid of what I'll find if I look it up.
1:00.0	No, no, no, they're basically consonants. You know, like calls the apes make to each other to communicate.
1:06.4	We used to think these kinds of sounds were all part of the orangutan language,
1:10.0	but a new study found that the sounds are constantly evolving among different communities of
1:14.4	Arangutans.
1:15.2	Like how there's a hot new word I have to keep up with every year? Are we still saying that things are
1:19.9	lit? You're asking the wrong guy. I still say boo-ya and that things are the bomb. But something
1:26.4	different between ape-slang and human-slang, we typically assign new
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