Plants That Light Up When Attacked, A 5-Minute Trick for Falling Asleep, and The Creepy Carleton Villa
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 963 Ratings
🗓️ 2 October 2018
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Learn about why scientists made a plant that lights up when it’s attacked; the history of what might be the creepiest house in the United States; and a 5-minute trick to help you fall asleep faster. Plus: hear Cody and Ashley react to Curiosity Daily being recognized as the 2018 Best Science & Medicine Podcast in the 13th Annual People’s Choice Podcast Awards!
In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter and learn something new in just a few minutes:
- Watch Plants Light Up When They're Attacked
- This Is Hands-Down the Creepiest House in the United States
- This 5-Minute Trick Can Help You Fall Asleep Faster
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, we've got three stories from Curiosity.com to help it get smarter in just a few minutes. |
| 0:05.3 | I'm Cody Gough. |
| 0:06.1 | And I'm Ashley Hamer. |
| 0:07.1 | Today you learn about why scientists made a plant that lights up when it's attacked, the history |
| 0:11.7 | of what might be the creepiest house in the United States, |
| 0:15.0 | and another trick to help you fall asleep faster. |
| 0:18.0 | Let's set us up out some curiosity. |
| 0:20.0 | On the award-winning 2018 Science and Medicine Podcast of the Year from the |
| 0:24.8 | 13th annual People Choice Podcast Awards. |
| 0:27.4 | Curiosity Daily. Stay tuned for more on that later. |
| 0:32.0 | Scientists have genetically modified plants to light up, |
| 0:35.0 | and they didn't just do it for fun. |
| 0:37.0 | They did it for, well, science. |
| 0:39.0 | And we'll get into why. |
| 0:41.0 | I thought this video was amazing to see. Really? Yeah. Did you watch it? |
| 0:45.8 | Nope. Yes, you did. I watched it. That'd be so mean. No, it was cool. A plant lighting up. |
| 0:55.0 | Yeah. But not just like a glow-y plant. |
| 0:57.0 | It's not just glow in the dark. |
| 0:58.0 | It would light up when certain things happened. |
| 1:00.0 | Totally. |
| 1:01.0 | You know, this is like my deepest, darkest, like weird nerd thing is that plants are freaking |
| 1:07.0 | awesome and they're way smarter and way cooler than anyone gives them credit for. |
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