Quitting Is Underrated, Most-Googled Scientific Misconceptions, and Starquakes in the Universe

Curiosity Weekly

Warner Bros. Discovery

Self-improvement, Science, Astronomy, Education

4.6 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2019

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Learn about what starquakes can tell us about our universe; why quitting is underrated; and the truth behind some of the most-Googled scientific misconceptions.

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:

Starquakes Are Real, and They're Seriously Violent — https://curiosity.im/2sVIMst
Why Quitting Is Underrated — https://curiosity.im/2t4W5XT
10 of the Most-Googled Scientific Misconceptions — https://curiosity.im/2t0jFEN

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0:00.0	Hi, we're here from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter in just a few minutes.
0:05.0	I'm Cody Gough.
0:06.0	And I'm Ashley Hamer.
0:07.0	Today, you learn about what Starquakes can tell us about our universe,
0:11.0	why quitting is underrated, and the truth behind some of the most Googled scientific
0:15.3	misconceptions.
0:16.3	But satisfy some curiosity on the award-winning Curiosity Daily.
0:20.4	You know about earthquakes, and we've talked about moonquakesakes and today we're going to go one step further and talk about wait for it
0:27.3	Star Quakes. They're real and they are seriously violent and these explosions in space reveal information about stars that help us
0:35.8	unravel the mysteries of our solar system. Let me give you an example.
0:39.4	Scientists are still learning about Starquakes, but one in particular stands out.
0:44.0	In December 2004, scientists observed a massive quake 50,000 light years away, in the neutron
0:50.4	star known as SGR 180620. Neutron stars like that one are the leftovers of a huge
0:55.8	star caving in on itself at the end of its life. So they're extremely dense with a strong
1:00.4	gravitational pull. The stars themselves are small enough to fit into a medium-sized
1:04.8	city, but a teaspoonful of neutron star matter would weigh at least a billion tons here on Earth.
1:11.2	When the Star Quake on SGR 180620 happened, it released a flash of energy that lasted about
1:16.6	a tenth of a second.
1:18.1	According to space.com, even that fraction of a second released more energy than the sun emits in 150,000 years.
1:26.3	The flash was brighter than anything we've ever seen from beyond our solar system.
1:31.0	Scientists think it was caused by an abrupt change in the star's magnetic field.
1:34.7	A neutron star's intense magnetic field is locked to its solid crust,
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