Tue. 08/31 - Could We Delete Our Memories One Day?
Cool Stuff Daily
Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff
4.6 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 31 August 2021
⏱️ 18 minutes
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| 0:28.7 | welcome to the cotkey ride home for t Tuesday, August 31st, 2021. I'm Jackson Bird. Today, the climate crisis is causing some animal species to shrink, and that is definitely not a good thing. |
| 0:50.0 | Experts weigh in on the possibility of humans ever being able to edit or delete their own memories. |
| 0:56.6 | And Netflix cheat codes to help you shake off the algorithm. |
| 1:00.8 | Here are some of the cool things from the news today. |
| 1:06.3 | The fact that the climate crisis is changing the characteristics of some animals is not exactly news. |
| 1:12.7 | We know that some are changing colors and that the distribution of species is shifting. |
| 1:17.6 | The New York Times has a whole series called When Humans Influence Evolution, |
| 1:21.9 | and it mentions such cases of rapid evolution as the peppered moth, |
| 1:26.2 | who changed from light to dark coloration when |
| 1:28.8 | pollution that began with the Industrial Revolution darkened the trees that made up its habitat. |
| 1:34.6 | And the Atlantic killifish, which rapidly evolved in immunity to toxic polluted waters. |
| 1:40.4 | And most recently, the Times recounted the case of the flightless stone flies in New Zealand's South Island, |
| 1:46.5 | which lost their wings and ability to fly when humans entered the region and cleared the trees from the land. |
| 1:53.2 | But now, more studies are coming out showing larger trends in changes to animals in response to the warming planet, |
| 1:59.1 | and a lot of them are shrinking. |
| 2:01.8 | One recent analysis showing this comes from the Field Museum in Chicago, where ornithologist |
| 2:06.8 | David Willard began collecting the corpses of birds back in 1978, collecting them after |
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