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Scuba Diving Lizards, Earth's TWO Moons & TDIH: The First Carpet Sweeper Patented by Melvin Bissell Leads to the First Female CEO

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

News, Tech News, Science, Society & Culture

4.6732 Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2024

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Diving lizards use an air bubble to breathe underwater. What can we learn from this fascinating admiral adaptation? Plus, Earth will soon have two moons…temporarily. And on 'This Day in History; the first carpet sweeper patented by Melvin Bissell also leads to the world’s first female CEO – in 1889. 'Scuba-diving' lizards use bubble to breathe underwater and avoid predators Earth will soon have a temporary second moon | KTLA What you need to know about Earth's new, temporary mini-moon - Los Angeles Times (latimes.com) A Two-month Mini-moon: 2024 PT5 Captured by Earth from September to November - IOPscience The First Carpet Sweeper Contact the show - [email protected] Factormeals.com/coolstuff50 use promo code coolstuff50 to get 50% off your first box plus 20% off your next month Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Welcome to Cool Stuff Ride Home, Marcus Paff,

0:34.3

joined by Reggie Rizzou, and on today's episode,

0:36.9

scuba diving lizards.

0:38.8

They use an air bubble around their head to breathe underwater.

0:42.7

What can we learn from this fascinating animal adaptation?

0:46.5

And soon, Earth will have two moons, temporarily, we'll explain.

0:51.4

Plus, on this day in history, the first carpet sweeper patented by Melvin Bissell

0:55.9

also leads to the world's first female CEO in 1889. That's coming up on cool stuff.

1:03.5

We'll start things off today once again with an article from Science Daily, presenting the world's

1:09.1

smallest scuba diver. A species of semi-aquatic lizard produces a special

1:14.6

bubble over its nostrils to breathe underwater and avoid predators. This, according to new research

1:20.7

out of Binghamton University in New York. Lindsay Swerk, an assistant research professor of

1:25.5

biological sciences at Binghamton, studies water annolis,

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