Rapamycin For Rover, H-Fueled Flight, Mind-Controlled Arms

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🗓️ 14 July 2022

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Today, you’ll learn about how a drug that helps in human organ transplants might be able to extend the lives of man’s best friend, the airline industry's potential but difficult switch to hydrogen fuel, and how a high school student is transforming prosthetics with brain waves.

All dogs go to heaven.

“New Drug May Help Dogs Live Longer” by Naomi Ruchim
- https://www.krtv.com/news/u-s-and-the-world/new-drug-may-help-dogs-live-longer
“A Drug Discovered on Easter Island May Help Dogs Live up to Three Years Longer” by Tod Perry
- https://www.upworthy.com/a-drug-discovered-on-easter-island-may-help-dogs-live-up-to-three-years-longer?rebelltitem=2#rebelltitem2
“Rapamycin’s Secrets Unearthed” by Bethany Halford
- https://cen.acs.org/articles/94/i29/Rapamycins-Secrets-Unearthed.html

Planes, planes, planes.

“The epic attempts to power planes with hydrogen” by Mark Piesing
- bbc.com/future/article/20220316-the-epic-attempts-to-power-planes-with-hydrogen
“How close are hydrogen planes, really?” By Sabri Ben-Achour
- https://www.marketplace.org/2021/10/28/how-close-are-hydrogen-planes-really/
“Hydrogen Explained” By US Energy Information Administration
- https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/hydrogen/use-of-hydrogen.php

Mind over matter.

“This High Schooler Invented a Low-Cost, Mind-Controlled Prosthetic Arm” by Margaret Osborne
- https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/this-high-schooler-invented-a-low-cost-mind-controlled-prosthetic-arm-180979984/
“High Schooler Invents Affordable, Mind-Controlled Prosthetic Arm” by Adrianna Nine
- https://www.extremetech.com/electronics/335384-high-schooler-invents-affordable-mind-controlled-prosthetic-arm
“Creating a Working Brain-Controlled Transhumeral Prosthetic Arm (Make It Move)” by Benjamin Choi
- https://www.instructables.com/Creating-a-Working-Brain-Controlled-Transhumeral-P/

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0:00.0	Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Discovery.
0:08.8	Time flies when you learn super cool stuff. I'm Nate.
0:11.7	And I'm Kelly. If you're dropping in for the first time,
0:14.1	welcome to curiosity where we aim to blow your mind by helping you to grow your mind.
0:17.6	If you're a loyal listener, welcome back. Today you'll learn about how a drug that
0:21.8	helps in human organ transplants might be able to extend the lives of man's best friend,
0:26.8	the airline industry's potential but difficult switch to hydrogen fuel,
0:30.8	and how a high school student is transforming prosthetics with brain waves.
0:35.0	Without further ado, let's satisfy some curiosity.
0:38.0	Nate, you know how much we all love our dogs?
0:41.0	Some of us maybe a little too much? Oh you mean like me because of my
0:46.2	new puppy? Hades who's perfect? I mean you can just say it. Yes I mean you.
0:51.4	Okay well okay I can't deny that, but I bet those folks, whoever they are, will be really
0:57.7	excited when they find out that a drug derived from fungus on Easter Island could
1:01.9	extend dogs lives by up to 25 percent.
1:05.0	A drug made from Fungous from Easter Island.
1:08.0	Why does this feel like the beginning of a sci-fi movie?
1:11.0	It's called Rapomysen and and it's Stone Cold Science Fact. A Canadian research team discovered it nearly 50 years ago while on an expedition to Easter Island.
1:20.0	The island with all those big head statues? That's the one.
1:23.0	The island itself is a tiny speck in the South Pacific,
1:26.0	and the goal of the expedition was to study the native people who lived there.
1:29.0	And one researcher in particular,
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