Time Flies, Human Microbiome, Smartphone Death Predictor

Curiosity Weekly

Warner Bros. Discovery

Self-improvement, Science, Astronomy, Education

4.6 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2022

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Today you’ll learn about how time flies as we age, how scientists are learning more and more about the microbiome within a human body, and the potential for a new phone app that can predict when you might die.

Time Flies

“Why Does 'Time Fly' As We Get Older?” by Christopher Dwyer
- https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/thoughts-thinking/202209/why-does-time-fly-we-get-older
“Why time flies so fast as we get older” BY ABIGAIL SAWYER
- https://www.biotechniques.com/cell-and-tissue-biology/why-time-flies-as-we-get-older/

Human Microbiome

“Scientists Have Made A Human Microbiome From Scratch” by Carl Zimmer
- https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/06/science/human-microbiome-bacteria.html
“Design, construction, and in vivo augmentation of a complex gut microbiome” by Alice G. Cheng et al.
- https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(22)00990-4?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0092867422009904%3Fshowall%3Dtrue

Smartphone Death Predictor

“Your smartphone could be used to estimate your risk of dying” by Grace Wade
- https://www.newscientist.com/article/2343342-your-smartphone-could-be-used-to-estimate-your-risk-of-dying/
“Smartphones could be used to predict a person's risk of dying, study finds” by Cathal Ryan
- https://www.buzz.ie/lifestyle/health/study-predict-mortality-rates-smartphone-28316953
“Population analysis of mortality risk: Predictive models from passive monitors using motion sensors for 100,000 UK Biobank participants” by Haowen Zhou, Ruoqing Zhu, Anita Ung, and Bruce Schatz
- https://journals.plos.org/digitalhealth/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pdig.0000045

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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 in 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
0:14.3	welcome to Curiosity where we aim to blow your mind by helping you to grow your mind.
0:18.7	If you're a loyal listener, welcome back. Today you'll learn about how time flies as we age, how scientists are learning more and
0:25.9	more about the microbiome within a human body, and the potential for a new phone app that
0:31.4	can predict when you might die.
0:33.6	Without further ado, let's satisfy some curiosity.
0:37.3	Callie, do you ever feel like your days are getting shorter and shorter
0:40.6	as you get older?
0:42.3	I don't know if you know this, Nate, but I'm not aging.
0:44.7	My days feel like they last a billion years
0:46.4	because I'm immortal.
0:47.8	So this sounds like a you problem.
0:49.9	Okay.
0:51.2	But tell me where this is going.
0:53.0	All right, well, it all starts with the idea of time being relative, meaning time clearly exists
0:58.8	for everything, but our perception of time only exists for us.
1:03.3	So for example, when you were 10 years old and somebody told you about something that happened
1:07.6	a year ago, that probably felt like a million years.
1:11.0	But if I are to ask you what you were doing one year ago today.
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