School Should Start Later, Daydreaming Perks, Hycean Planets
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 963 Ratings
🗓️ 11 October 2021
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Learn about why high school starts too early; why daydreaming might be a good sign; and finding life on Hycean planets.
High school starts too early in all but 3 US states — but things are changing by Steffie Drucker
- Roy, S. (2014, August 26). AAP Recommends Delaying School Start Times to Combat Teen Sleep... Sleep Review. https://www.sleepreviewmag.com/sleep-health/demographics/age/aap-recommends-delaying-school-start-times-combat-teen-sleep-deprivation/
- CDC. (2020, May 29). Schools Start Too Early. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. https://www.cdc.gov/sleep/features/schools-start-too-early.html
- National Teacher and Principal Survey (NTPS). (2017). Ed.gov; National Center for Education Statistics. https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/ntps/tables/ntps1718_table_05_s1s.asp
- Jacobs, F. (2021, August 27). Here’s how early school begins – and why it is bad for students. Big Think; Big Think. https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/heres-how-early-school-begins-and-why-it-is-bad-for-students
- Sleep for Teenagers | Sleep Foundation. (2009, April 17). Sleep Foundation. https://www.sleepfoundation.org/teens-and-sleep
Daydreaming Might Be a Sign of an Efficient Brain by Reuben Westmaas
- Daydreaming is Good. It Means You’re Smart | News Center. (2017). Gatech.edu. https://www.news.gatech.edu/news/2017/10/24/daydreaming-good-it-means-youre-smart
- Godwin, C. A., Hunter, M. A., Bezdek, M. A., Lieberman, G., Elkin-Frankston, S., Romero, V. L., Witkiewitz, K., Clark, V. P., & Schumacher, E. H. (2017). Functional connectivity within and between intrinsic brain networks correlates with trait mind wandering. Neuropsychologia, 103, 140–153. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2017.07.006
- A wandering mind reveals mental processes and priorities. (2012). Wisc.edu. https://news.wisc.edu/a-wandering-mind-reveals-mental-processes-and-priorities/
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Forget Earth-like planets — it's time to look for alien life on Hycean planets by Briana Brownell
- New class of habitable exoplanets are “a big step forward” in the search for life. (2021, August 26). University of Cambridge. https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/new-class-of-habitable-exoplanets-are-a-big-step-forward-in-the-search-for-life
- Madhusudhan, N., Piette, A. A. A., & Constantinou, S. (2021). Habitability and Biosignatures of Hycean Worlds. The Astrophysical Journal, 918(1), 1. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/abfd9c
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from |
| 0:05.0 | Curiosity.com. I'm Cody Gough. And I'm Ashley Hamer. Today you learn about why |
| 0:09.6 | high school starts too early, why daydreaming might be a sign of an efficient brain, and a new type of planet |
| 0:16.0 | researchers are including in our search for extraterrestrial life. |
| 0:19.7 | Let's search for some extraterrestrial curiosity, terrestrial is fine here I guess. |
| 0:25.0 | This next story will come as no surprise to anyone who has ever struggled to wake up for school. |
| 0:34.8 | According to research, high school starts way too early |
| 0:39.4 | in almost every US state. |
| 0:42.4 | Relatable, am I right? Experts recommend that teens get between 8 and 10 hours |
| 0:48.0 | of sleep each night. But their biology makes it difficult to achieve that during the school year. but their |
| 0:55.0 | sleep drive |
| 0:58.0 | sleep drive builds more slowly than it did in childhood. |
| 1:01.8 | So they don't start to feel tired until later in the night. |
| 1:06.2 | If they were left to their own schedule, most teens would sleep from 11 or midnight to |
| 1:11.8 | 8 or 9 in the morning. But the vast majority of American high schools |
| 1:16.1 | start earlier than that, which means that teens need to get out of bed even earlier than |
| 1:20.9 | that to arrive on time. They get sleepy later and have to wake up earlier, |
| 1:26.5 | so their sleep is being squeezed on both sides. Suffice it to say, sleep is essential for good physical and mental health and the kids are not all right |
| 1:38.4 | a 2014 poll of parents by the National Sleep Foundation found that a majority of high schoolers weren't getting the recommended amount. |
| 1:47.0 | One sleep medicine publication called the average teenager, |
| 1:51.0 | pathologically sleepy. Yikes. In 2014, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommended |
| 1:58.9 | that high schools start at 830 or later. But a few years later, the Department of Education found that the first |
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