Sleep Spray, Insecticide Paint, UK Redwoods
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 935 Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2024
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Today, you’ll learn about a nasal spray that could one day let those with sleep apnea toss out their CPAP machines, house paint that kills mosquitos, and the incredible giant redwoods… of England.
Sleep Spray
- “A novel TASK channel antagonist nasal spray reduces sleep apnea severity in physiological responders: a randomized, blinded, trial.” by Amal M. Osman, et al. 2024.
- “Obstructive Sleep Apnea.” by Rob Newsom & Dr. Abhinav Singh. 2024.
Insecticide Paint
- “Insecticide paint controls mosquito population up to 1 year, experiment shows.” by Stephanie Soucheray, MA. 2024.
- “Mosquito-Borne Human Viral Diseases: Why Aedes aegypti?” by Jeffrey R. Powell. 2018.
- “Insecticide paints: a new community strategy for controlling dengue and zika mosquito vectors in Cabo Verde.” by Lara Ferrero Gomez, et al. 2024.
- “Special insecticide paint may help curb zika and dengue fever outbreaks.” EurekAlert! 2024.
UK Redwoods
- “Hidden giants: how the UK’s 500,000 redwoods put California in the shade.” by James Tapper. 2024.
- “11 FActs About Coast Redwoods, the Tallest Trees in the World.” by Melissa Breyer. 2020.
- “California: visitors to world’s tallest tree face $5,000 fine and possible jail time.” Associated Press. 2022.
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| 0:00.0 | This is |
| 0:04.0 | Curiosity Daily from Discovery, where you're gonna get smarter in just a few minutes. |
| 0:09.0 | It's gonna be an awesome time. |
| 0:10.0 | My name is Nate. |
| 0:12.0 | And I'm Kali. We're so excited to have you here with us at |
| 0:14.8 | curiosity and if you've been a loyal listener for a while welcome back today you're |
| 0:18.4 | gonna learn about a nasal spray that could one day let those with sleep apnea toss out their |
| 0:23.4 | seepap machines house paint that kills mosquitoes and the incredible giant |
| 0:29.3 | Redwoods of England. Let's check it out. |
| 0:34.0 | In pop culture, the heavy sleeper is always depicted as this snugly dead to the world figure, |
| 0:40.0 | just snoring loud enough to keep an entire neighborhood up at night. |
| 0:44.1 | Sure I mean the the comparison is like sawing logs right? Exactly. But most of us know |
| 0:50.1 | better than that by now in fact all that loud snoring is often caused by something |
| 0:54.3 | called obstructive sleep apnea, and it is a sign of anything but a good night's sleep. |
| 1:00.3 | Sleep apnea, and I feel like we all know someone who has this I know it generally leads to a restless night and even if those who suffer from it seem to be sleeping through the snores they can still sort of lead to sleepy days and And it's actually even worse than that. |
| 1:13.7 | Sure, it can definitely lead to fatigue during the day, but there are a ton of |
| 1:18.4 | other knock-on effects of sleep apnea. You can have difficulty concentrating or memory problems. It can make you moody and lead to decreased |
| 1:26.8 | sex drive or other sexual dysfunction. Plus there's evidence that it leads to high blood |
| 1:31.6 | pressure, increased risk of heart disease stroke |
| 1:34.4 | type 2 diabetes depression the list goes on I had no idea it could be so damaging |
| 1:40.7 | yep and it's estimated to affect anywhere from 10 to 30% of adults in the United States |
| 1:46.9 | although it often just goes undiagnosed. I mean I guess because of how common |
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