Super X-Ray, Seeing Future Weather, Vitamin D-ementia

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Warner Bros. Discovery

Self-improvement, Science, Astronomy, Education

4.6 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Discover a new x-ray giving us incredible sight into ourselves, the future of weather prediction, and a surprising potential link between dementia and vitamin D.

Ultra visible insides.

Human Organ Atlas
- https://human-organ-atlas.esrf.eu/
Brightest Ever X-ray Shows Lung Vessels Altered by COVID-19 by University College London
- https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/11/211104100646.htm
Drawing Up a ‘Google Earth’ of the Human Body by Jon Cartwright
- https://physicsworld.com/a/the-body-exposed/
Imaging Intact Human Organs with Local Resolution of Cellular Structures Using Hierarchical Phase-Contrast Tomography by C.L. Walsh, et al.
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-021-01317-x

Hotter summers are coming.

Skillful seasonal prediction of North American summertime heat extremes by Liwei Jia, et al.
- https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-21-0364.1
GFDL’s New Modeling System for Seasonal Predictions by Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
- https://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/gfdls-new-modeling-system-for-seasonal-predictions/
Butterflies, rounding errors, and the chaos of climate models by Emily Becker
- https://www.climate.gov/news-features/blogs/enso/butterflies-rounding-errors-and-chaos-climate-models
SPEAR: The Next Generation GFDL Modeling System for Seasonal to Multidecadal Prediction and Projection by Thomas L. Delworth, et al.
- https://doi.org/10.1029/2019MS001895

More vitamin D please.

“Vitamin D Deficiency May Increase the Risk of Dementia” by Elizabeth Pratt
- https://www.healthline.com/health-news/vitamin-d-deficiency-may-increase-the-risk-of-dementia#Dementia-and-vitamin-D
“Vitamin D Deficiency Leads to Dementia” by University of South Australia
- https://www.newswise.com/articles/vitamin-d-deficiency-leads-to-dementia?ta=home

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0:00.0	Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Discovery.
0:08.8	Time flies when you're learning super cool stuff.
0:11.1	I'm Nate.
0:12.1	And I'm Callie. If you're dropping in for the first time
0:13.9	welcome to curiosity where we aim to blow your mind by helping you to grow your mind.
0:17.4	If you're a loyal listener, welcome back. Today you'll learn about a new x-ray giving
0:22.1	us incredible insight into ourselves, the future of
0:25.5	weather prediction, and a surprising potential link between dementia and vitamin D.
0:31.5	Without further ado, let's satisfy some curiosity.
0:34.0	Cali, we are able to see things within our bodies at a ridiculously tiny scale.
0:39.0	That's because researchers at the European Synchrotron Research Facility, ESRF for short, have developed a new
0:46.3	imaging technology called Hierarchial Phase Contrasts, Tomography.
0:51.8	Come on, you can you! Come on you!
0:53.2	I've got so much faith in you!
0:54.8	Hierarchal phase contrast, tomography that can view blood vessels only five microns
1:01.0	in diameter. You did it.
1:03.0	Yes.
1:04.0	Okay.
1:05.0	H-haha.
1:07.0	Back up, five microns.
1:09.0	How small is that?
1:10.0	That's about a tenth of the diameter of a human hair. The tech, which we can call the hip CT, is giving
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