Spider Silk, Family Meals, Pregnancy Ultrasounds
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 935 Ratings
🗓️ 6 July 2023
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Today you’ll learn about how spider and silkworm silk is being used to repair injured nerves, about a simple trick backed by science to get your kids to eat their vegetables, and about a new study on third trimester ultrasounds and healthier babies.
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Spider Silk
- “Silk from spiders and silkworms found to be a promising material to repair injured nerves.” n.a. 2023.
- “Peripheral nerve injuries.” Mayo Clinic. 2022.
Family Meals
- “Effect of Longer Family Meals on Children’s Fruit and Vegetable Intake.” by Mattea Dallacker, PhD, et al. 2023.
Pregnancy Ultrasounds
- “Giving Pregnant Women Routine Third Trimester Ultrasound Scans Could Reduce Rates of Undetected Breech Pregnancy by 71%, Enabling Better Care Before and During Labor and Improved Outcomes for Newborns.” n.a. 2023.
- “Impact of point-of-care ultrasound and routine third trimester ultrasound on undiagnosed breech presentation and perinatal outcomes: An observational multicentre cohort study.” by Samantha Knights, et al. 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 learn 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, welcome to curiosity |
| 0:15.3 | where we aim to blow your mind by helping you to grow your mind. If you're a loyal |
| 0:18.8 | listener, welcome back. Today you'll learn about how spider and silkworm silk is being used to repair injured nerves |
| 0:25.7 | About a simple trick backed by science to get your kids to eat their vegetables and about a new study on third trimester |
| 0:33.0 | ultrasounds and healthier babies. |
| 0:35.0 | Without further ado, let's satisfy some curiosity. |
| 0:38.0 | A new study has shown that damaged nerves |
| 0:41.0 | can potentially be repaired using spider webs sort of. |
| 0:46.9 | Okay is this mean the whole Spider-Man universe thing is really like a documentary series? I mean nice try. We're not going to be |
| 0:55.5 | like swinging our way through cities on spider webs anytime soon but this is |
| 0:59.0 | actually pretty amazing. See our nerves are the unsung heroes of just about everything we do. |
| 1:04.4 | They are the information superhighway between our brains and the rest of our bodies. |
| 1:08.5 | Right, and nerve damage can be hugely debilitating right? |
| 1:12.8 | Absolutely when our brains want our legs to move it sends a message through our |
| 1:16.9 | nerves and when we step on a splinter our nerves tell our brain just how bad it hurts. |
| 1:21.9 | So a nerve injury can cause paralysis, numbness, pain, all kinds of problems. |
| 1:26.7 | So where do the spider webs come in? |
| 1:29.4 | And do doctors just inject tiny spiders into your body and let them do the work? |
| 1:34.8 | Thank you for that nightmare fuel. |
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