Tripping to Run, Everest’s Warning, Investigating Planet 9
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 935 Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2022
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Today, you’ll learn about trippy psychedelic drugs that could alter everything we know about mental health, a glacier on Mount Everest that is literally blowing away and an object in the far reaches of our solar system that may or may not be there.
Psychedelic drugs are making a comeback, but not on the party scene. They could be the future of mental health.
The Future of Psychedelic Science by Ryan O’Hare
About Us by Imperial Centre for Psychedelic Research
Back to the future: Psychedelic drugs in psychiatry by Peter Grinspoon, MD
The Future Of Psychedelic Medicine Might Skip The Trip by Will Yakowicz
The worldview-changing drugs poised to go mainstream by Ed Prideaux
Top 10 Hardest-Throwing Pitchers in Baseball by Matthew Jussim
How Dock Ellis dropped acid and threw a no-hitter by Larry Getlen
A glacier on Mount Everest is literally blowing away.
Everest’s Highest Glacier has Lost 2,000 Years of Ice in 30 Years by Brandon Specktor
Behind the Scenes of a Comprehensive Scientific Expedition to Mt. Everest by Sandra Elvin, Pete Athans, Paul Mayewski, Jiban Ghimire, Aurora C. Elmore, and Valerie Craig
Glaciers are shrinking fast. Scientists are rushing to figure out how fast by Rebecca Hersher
Everest expedition with 6 CCI scientists sets 3 world records by UMaine News (Contact: Beth Staples)
25 of the strangest Guinness World Records ever by USA Today Travel
What is a glacier? by National Snow & Ice Data Center
Why That Giant Ice Cube Is in Your Drink by Anna Archibald
An object in the far reaches of our solar system may or may not actually exist, but scientists are trying to find out for sure.
If Planet Nine exists, why has no one seen it? by Zaria Gorvett
Uncovering the mystery of Planet Nine by Lucy Freeman
PLANET 9: OLD DATA COULD UNCOVER THE SOLAR SYSTEM'S NEWEST WORLD, 38 YEARS LATE by Passant Rabie
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Discovery. |
| 0:08.5 | Time flies when you're learning super cool stuff. I'm Nate. |
| 0:11.5 | And I'm Callie. If you're dropping in for the first time, welcome to curiosity, where we aim to blow your mind by helping you grow your mind. If you're a loyal listener, welcome back. |
| 0:20.0 | Today you'll learn about trippy psychedelic drugs that could alter everything |
| 0:24.0 | we know about mental health, a glacier on Mount Everest that is literally blowing away and an |
| 0:28.6 | object in the far reaches of our solar system that may or may not be there. |
| 0:33.2 | Without further ado, let's satisfy some curiosity. |
| 0:37.0 | Nate, I know you just love sports. |
| 0:39.7 | What is the most impressive baseball fact do you know? |
| 0:42.6 | Oh, easy. |
| 0:43.6 | I rolled this Chapman through a baseball over 105 miles per hour. |
| 0:47.8 | I don't even know how a human does that. |
| 0:50.4 | Well, how about this? |
| 0:52.0 | On June 12th, 1970, Pittsburgh Pirates player Doc Ellis pitched a |
| 0:56.4 | Major League Baseball game where he only walked eight batters and struck out six. |
| 1:00.8 | That's interesting, but the most impressive. |
| 1:04.0 | Yes, that's because Doc pitched what is called a no-hitter. |
| 1:07.2 | Not one opposing batter made it to base with a hit. |
| 1:10.1 | Of the 218,400 games that have been played in professional |
| 1:14.4 | baseball there have only been 314 no hitters or 0.0015% here's the crazy thing. |
| 1:22.8 | Doc accomplished this while hallucinating on the psychedelic drug LSD. |
| 1:27.0 | Really? That is insane. |
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