Re-release: Fabric with Ears, Dreaming of E.T., Fast Evolution

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Warner Bros. Discovery

Self-improvement, Science, Astronomy, Education

4.6 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2022

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Today, you’ll learn about how researchers at MIT created an incredible new type of fabric that can save thousands of lives, how sleep scientists are explaining alien abductions, and how evolution is being sped up by human beings, causing ripple effects all over the place.

Fabric with Ears

This fabric can hear your heartbeat by Carolyn Wilke
- https://www.sciencenews.org/article/fabric-hear-heartbeat-fiber-vibration-voltage-sound-material
A fabric that “hears” your heart's sounds by Jennifer Chu
- https://news.mit.edu/2022/fabric-acoustic-microphone-0316
Researchers Create a Fabric That Can ‘Hear’ Your Heartbeat by Margaret Osborne
- https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/researchers-create-a-fabric-that-can-hear-your-heartbeat-180979753/
Hear and There: Sounds from Everywhere! by Daniel Henning, Edin Sabic, and Michael C. Hout
- https://kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frym.2018.00063
Heart Disease Facts by The CDC
- https://www.cdc.gov/heartdisease/facts.htm
Electrical and Electromagnetic Fundamentals by Joseph J. Carr
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/static-electricity
Smart Fibers Could Turn Army Uniforms Into Wearable Computers by Kyle Mizokami
- https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/research/a36732071/army-uniform-fibers-create-wearable-computers/

Dreaming of E.T.

'Alien abduction' stories may come from lucid dreaming, study hints by Mindy Weisberger
- https://www.livescience.com/lucid-dreaming-ufo-alien-abductions.html
COULD SUSPECTED ALIEN ABDUCTIONS JUST BE … LUCID DREAMING? by Elizabeth Rayne
- https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/could-suspected-alien-abductions-be-lucid-dreaming
How Betty and Barney Hill's Alien Abduction Story Defined the Genre by Linda Lacina
- https://www.history.com/news/first-alien-abduction-account-barney-betty-hill
Is it normal to believe you have been abducted by aliens? by Dr. Ema Sullivan-Bissett
- https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/perspective/abducted-by-aliens.aspx
Sleep paralysis and folklore by Ann M. Cox
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5167075/
Sleep Paralysis in Brazilian Folklore and Other Cultures: A Brief Review by José F. R. de Sá and Sérgio A. Mota-Rolim
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5013036/

Fast Evolution

A New Database Reveals How Much Humans Are Messing With Evolution by Amit Katwala
- https://www.wired.com/story/database-humans-messing-with-evolution/
Uncovering the underlying patterns in contemporary evolution by McGill University Newsroom
- https://www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/channels/news/uncovering-underlying-patterns-contemporary-evolution-336562
Pollution Facts & Types of Pollution by Alina Bradford
- https://www.livescience.com/22728-pollution-facts.html

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0:00.0	Hey Dean, hope your holiday season is going swimmingly.
0:03.0	Today we have another episode re-release from the vault with some great facts to impress anyone at whatever holiday function you find yourself at.
0:10.0	I know I've got some family members who love to talk about lucid dreaming and I enjoyed learning about fabric that can generate electricity
0:17.0	So I know I'll be breaking out some of those tidbits at the New Year's party. Anyway, enjoy today's episode.
0:23.0	Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Discovery.
0:32.0	Time flies when you're learning super cool stuff. I'm Nate.
0:35.0	And I'm Callie. If you're dropping in for the first time, welcome to Curiosity, where we aim to blow your mind by helping you to grow your mind.
0:41.0	And if you're a loyal listener, welcome back.
0:43.0	Today you'll learn about how researchers at MIT created an incredible new type of
0:47.4	fabric that can save thousands of lives, how sleep scientists are explaining
0:51.7	alien abductions, and how evolution is being
0:54.1	sped up by human beings causing ripple effects all over the place.
0:57.3	Without further ado, let's satisfy some curiosity.
1:00.6	Hey Callie, Callie!
1:03.3	Dude what?
1:04.4	I have a story you'll want to listen to.
1:06.7	Oh, I'm sorry, my hearing has been weird ever since that bioluminescent rave.
1:11.0	Well, I've got something that can help you or more accurately here for you.
1:15.0	Material scientists have created a fabric that can hear and it might be the solution to help avoid one in four American deaths.
1:22.0	Clothing with human senses.
1:24.0	Are my boots going to be able to taste soon?
1:26.0	You'd have to be really careful taking the dog for a walk in those.
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