Otterly Amazing, Let’s Go Bananas, Blingy Mayan Grills
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 935 Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2022
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Today, you’ll learn about the cutest warriors helping humans on the front lines in the fight against climate change, an important new study that reveals how you can add years to your life, yes… years, and an ancient Mayan dental practice that added some flashy bling to their teeth.
Otter’s holding hands? Adorable, AND these little cuties are on the front lines of climate change.
The Cutest Way to Fight Climate Change? Send in the Otters by Matt Simon
Sea otter by Monterey Bay Aquarium
How sea otters can fight climate change by Ula Chrobak
Why combatting climate change just got a whole lot cuter by Carley Gomez
Companies hoping to grow carbon-sucking kelp may be rushing ahead of the science by James Temple
Here are the 10 most popular cars in Boston by Jack Pickell
We all know we should eat healthy - but did you know it could add YEARS to your life? Yes. Years.
Changing your diet could add up to 13 years to your life, study says by Sandee LaMotte
Estimating impact of food choices on life expectancy: A modeling study by Lars T. Fadnes, Jan-Magnus Økland, Øystein A. Haaland, and Kjell Arne Johansson
Dietary changes may extend life span by up to 10 years by Robby Berman
Eating Less Red Meat and More of These ‘Key 3’ Foods Could Add 10 Years to Your Life Expectancy by Kells McPhillips
America’s Women and the Wage Gap by The National Partnership for Women and Families
Why Good Nutrition is Important by Center for Science in the Public Interest
An ancient Mayan dental practice was all about the bling, baby.
The ancient Mayan practice of dental modification by Katelyn Green
Mayans: Civilization, Culture & Empire by History.com Editors
Belize cave was Maya child sacrifice site by Bruce Bower
This Exhibition Has Real Bite by Roslyn Sulcas
Dr. Verdugo’s Research Papers
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Discovery. |
| 0:08.6 | Time flies when you're learning super cool stuff. |
| 0:11.1 | I'm Nate. |
| 0:11.9 | And I'm Callie. If you're dropping in for the first time |
| 0:14.3 | welcome to Curiosity where we aim to blow your mind by helping you to grow your mind. |
| 0:18.4 | If you're a loyal listener, welcome back. Today you'll learn about the cutest |
| 0:22.3 | warriors helping humans on the front lines in the fight |
| 0:24.8 | against climate change, an important new study that reveals how you can add years to your life, |
| 0:29.2 | yes years, and an ancient Mayan dental practice that added some flashy bling to their teeth. |
| 0:35.0 | Without further ado, let's satisfy some curiosity. |
| 0:38.0 | Cali, what if I told you a team of climate change fighters wasn't just hard working, they were also really, really, really cute. |
| 0:46.5 | That sounds like something we're celebrating and sounds like something I could maybe use a picture of. |
| 0:51.9 | Well you and our listeners should go Google |
| 0:53.9 | some picks of otters because the work of these adorable marine mammals could |
| 0:57.7 | be like taking millions of cars off the road. Okay the only thing better than |
| 1:01.3 | them taking cars off the road would be seeing one of them driving a tiny car. |
| 1:04.4 | I'm imagining a little chauffeurs hat holding a sign at the airport with your name on it. |
| 1:09.2 | Yes, oh my gosh, yes. Before I tell you how they're like a legion of adorable little |
| 1:13.8 | captain planets we first should understand how cool otters are even without all the |
| 1:18.0 | human benefits. Are you talking about both cute and fun facts? Yes, let's chat about two sea otter subspecies, the |
| 1:24.9 | southern sea otter and the northern sea otter. Southern sea otters are |
| 1:28.0 | about four feet long and can weigh up to 70 pounds, but our northern friends can weigh |
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