Sleep Questions, Portable Museums, Digital Health Records. May 25, 2018, Part 1

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🗓️ 25 May 2018

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What’s the difference between being fatigued and sleepy? Do melatonin and other sleeping aids work? And what can you do if you just can’t sleep?Neurologist and sleep specialist W. Chris Winter, author of the book The Sleep Solution: Why Your Sleep is Broken and How to Fix It, talks about how the brain and body regulate sleep. He also gives ideas for controlling your behavior to improve your “sleep hygiene.” Science museums can be a fun and educational way to spend a day—but what if you don’t have a day? What if there’s no museum near you? Or what if you don’t think you like science enough to spend money on an entry fee? All of these are reasons one nonprofit is working to shrink the museum, and bring it to you—starting with the Smallest Mollusk Museum. It’s a vending machine-sized exhibit on the slimy tricks, strange brains, and ecological importance of snails, squids, octopuses, and their chitinous cousins. Amanda Schochet, co-founder of the project and a former computational biologist, explains what goes into making a small museum that can still share big ideas. In recent years, medical providers have largely moved away from scrawled paper charts to electronic health records. But a team of researchers argues that the transformation of medical records hasn’t gone far enough. While there has been widespread adoption of electronic health records, most are just static, flat translations of the format of the old fashioned paper file. If we can subscribe to specific categories of news online, the researchers say, why shouldn’t medical specialists be able to subscribe to a given patient’s medical records to get updates and alerts of specific interest to them? Why shouldn’t medical teams be able to get notifications and share information when patients needing special care plans arrive at the hospital? Plus, a satellite launched this week would aid in planned Chinese lunar exploration.

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0:00.0	This is Science Friday. I am I, Rifledo. Later in the hour, we'll be taking your questions about sleep.
0:05.9	Oh, so many questions about sleep. And you have questions for a sleep doctor. We have one on call,
0:11.9	but only if you make the call. Our number is 844-724-8-255. That's 844 SciTalk, where you can tweet us at SciFRI.
0:21.6	But first, it's been 46 years since humans have been on the surface of the moon.
0:25.9	Hard to believe.
0:27.3	Earlier this month, NASA administrator, new NASA administrator, Jim Bridenstein, said that the U.S. was going back.
0:34.8	Yes, we've heard that before, and despite past proposals to return, this time
0:39.1	it's for real. He says this will not be Lucy and the football again, he told the conference.
0:44.3	We'll see. But the U.S. isn't the only player in the game. China has plans for its own
0:48.5	human moon mission by 2025, and this week it launched a satellite as part of that larger moon exploration program
0:56.1	sounds exciting Ryan Mendebaum is here to tell us about that another selected short
1:01.1	subjects in science he is science writer at Gizmodo wow good to see you nice seeing you I
1:06.7	what's going on let's start with that very basic question about what's going on the news
1:10.7	electronic you know what's the deal with the satellite? All right. So basically, China needs to put a, if you want to land something on the backside of the moon, which is they're going to be the first ones to land on the dark side of the moon, well, the back side of the moon, sorry. They need to put a satellite there to talk to it. So that satellite was launched on Monday as part of their Changa 4 mission. And on this satellite, there's also going to be a radio antenna to map the radio skies, the distant universe. Well, you know, that's a good spot. But scientists have always said the backside, the far side of the moon is good because it always faces away from Earth. So you don't get electronic interference from cell phones and stuff like that. Exactly. So that's why they're going to do it. So when we talk about telescopes, people always say, why can't we put a telescope on the far side of the moon? And they're going to try to do that. Is somebody actually have a plan to do that? For now, the plan is to have the satellite is going to have the telescope on there, but this is sort of the first step.
2:07.9	Yeah, that'd be great. Okay, let's talk about troubling news coming out of the Congo about an Ebola outbreak.
2:19.5	Another, we have another Ebola outbreak. That's right. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, we've got at least 58 cases and at least 27 deaths, which was reported on May 21st. But this is important.
2:20.9	For the first time in an Ebola outbreak, there's a vaccine.
2:24.6	It's an experimental vaccine, but experimental doesn't mean quite what you think it means.
2:29.5	It means that it's been tested, but it hasn't been released to the market yet.
2:32.4	And the results looked really successful
2:34.4	of this vaccine, so people are worried, but cautiously optimistic. So how big is the outbreak? How many
2:39.4	people have been? Right. So 58 cases and 27 deaths was reported on May 21st. Wow. And as we say,
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