Space Hibernation, New York is Sinking, Baby Talk
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 935 Ratings
🗓️ 19 July 2023
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Today, you’ll learn about a way we might, one day, be able to sleep our way to the stars, why some of the world’s cities are sinking, and how babies’ brain structures could be influenced by how much we speak to them.
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Space Hibernation
- “Hibernation-Like State Induced by Ultrasound Could Enable Long-Distance Spaceflights.” by Ruairi J. Mackenzie. 2023.
- “Alpha Centauri: Facts about the stars next door.” by Robert Lea. 2023.
New York is Sinking
- “New York City Is Sinking. It's Far From Alone.” by Matt Simon. 2023.
- “New York City Is Sinking Under Its Own Weight.” by Meghan Bartels. 2023.
Baby Talk
- “Talking to Babies May Help Shape Brain Structure, Research Finds.” by Nicola Davis. 2023.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Discovery. |
| 0:09.0 | Time flies when you're learning super cool stuff. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm Nate. |
| 0:12.0 | And I'm Callie. If you're dropping in for the first time, |
| 0:14.0 | welcome to curiosity, where we aim to blow your mind by helping you to grow your mind. |
| 0:17.8 | If you're a loyal listener, welcome back. |
| 0:19.8 | Today, you'll learn about a way we might one day be able to sleep our way to the stars, |
| 0:24.8 | why some of the world's cities are sinking, and how baby's brain structure could be influenced |
| 0:29.9 | by how much we speak to them. |
| 0:32.0 | Without further ado, let's satisfy some curiosity. |
| 0:35.0 | How would you like to travel to the stars? |
| 0:38.0 | Yeah, I mean, what curious person wouldn't want to go see a strange |
| 0:42.0 | interstellar star system. |
| 0:44.0 | I'm right there with you. |
| 0:45.0 | I think it would be pretty fantastic. |
| 0:47.0 | Of course, once we got there, we would be pretty old. |
| 0:50.9 | Yeah, so there's the kicker. How old, Nate? Well, let's say we wanted to hit the beach on |
| 0:56.8 | Alpha Centauri, which is the closest star system to us. If we traveled at the speed of the fastest spacecraft we've ever |
| 1:05.1 | sent into space, we'd be about 70,000 years old by the time we got there. |
| 1:10.0 | To put that in context, some of the oldest cave paintings on Earth are only about 45,000 years old |
| 1:17.4 | So we're gonna need a lot of snacks right this is one of the things that want to be space explorers have been struggling with for ages, not the snacks thing in particular, but even if we could figure out how to propel a spacecraft full of humans through interstellar space, well it takes decades to even leave our own solar system. |
| 1:36.3 | Who wants to spend their whole lifetime in a tiny capsule? |
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