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Curiosity Weekly

Project Blue Book, Cooking Hacks Using Chemistry, and “Sea Nomads”

Curiosity Weekly

Warner Bros. Discovery

Self-improvement, Science, Astronomy, Education

4.6935 Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2018

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories to help you learn something new in just a few minutes:

  • These "Sea Nomads" Have Supersized Spleens for Diving
  • Project Blue Book Was the US Government's Official UFO Investigation Project
  • J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies
  • 10 Ways To Hack Your Cooking with Chemistry

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Full episode transcript here: https://curiosity-daily-4e53644e.simplecast.com/episodes/project-blue-book-cooking-hacks-using-chemistry-and-sea-nomads



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0:00.0

Hi, we've got three stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter in just a few minutes.

0:05.6

I'm Cody Gough.

0:06.4

And I'm Ashley Hamer.

0:07.6

Today you'll learn about sea nomads who have super-sized spines for diving.

0:12.0

The US government's official UFO investigation project,

0:15.0

and some delicious ways to hack your cooking with chemistry.

0:18.0

Let's satisfy some curiosity.

0:20.0

Cody! Researchers have found a group of people that basically have superpowers because of their spleen

0:25.1

What do you even know what the spleen does I have literally no idea what the spleen does I didn't either before this

0:31.5

But it's an organ in the upper far left part of your abdomen

0:35.1

to the left of your stomach.

0:36.6

And it does lots of stuff.

0:37.8

It acts like a filter for blood as part of the immune system.

0:41.0

It helps fight certain kinds of bacteria that can cause pneumonia and meningitis.

0:45.0

It recycles old red blood cells and it stores platelets and white blood cells.

0:49.0

And a new discovery shows off one other superpower.

0:52.0

It can help you go for longer without breathing.

0:55.0

What? It's basically like a built-in scuba tank.

0:58.0

Curiosity is written before about the Bijow, a group of nomadic people, indigenous to Indonesia, that can stay underwater for up to 13 minutes at a time.

1:07.0

Well, there's more news.

1:09.0

A team of researchers from the University of Copenhagen heard about the awesome diving ability of the

1:13.8

bajow and wondered if there were any evolutionary reasons for their amazing

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