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Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

Tech News, News, Science, Society & Culture

4.6 • 739 Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2022

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Why NASA is sending a bunch of brewer’s yeast up to space on Artemis 1. Plus, scientists have created genetically-edited tomatoes pumped up with vitamin D. And a COVID-19 memorial that will be purposefully burnt down on Saturday. Sponsors: Calm, Get 40% off a Calm Premium Subscription calm.com/coolstuff DeVry University, Learn more at DeVry.edu/Future Links: NASA plans to launch an unexpected organism to space to study cosmic radiation (Inverse) BioSentinel (NASA) Around the Moon with NASA's First Launch of SLS with Orion (NASA) Gene-edited tomatoes could provide new source of vitamin D (Nature) Scientists CRISPR'd Tomatoes to Make Them Full of Vitamin D (Gizmodo) Scientists create tomatoes genetically edited to bolster vitamin D levels (The Guardian) The Public Will Be Invited to Safely Burn Down a New COVID-19 Memorial (Architectural Digest) Visitors 'overwhelmed' by Bedworth Covid memorial Sanctuary (BBC) 'I feel your country's anger' – why the memorial to Britain's Covid dead will be set ablaze (The Guardian) The Unburnable Book: Margaret Atwood’s THE HANDMAID'S TALE (Penguin Random House, YouTube) The Unburnable Book Over 1,000 Musicians Honor Taylor Hawkins with "My Hero" Cover: Watch (Consequence) Jackson Bird on Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.7	It's Wednesday, May 25th, 2022. I'm Jackson Bird today.
0:41.2	Why NASA is sending a bunch of brewers yeast up to space on Artemis 1.
0:46.7	Plus, scientists have created genetically edited tomatoes pumped up with vitamin D,
0:53.0	and a COVID-19 memorial that will be purposefully burnt down
0:58.3	on Saturday. Here's some cool stuff for your ride home. Whenever the Artemis 1 mission
1:07.1	eventually happens, it will be a huge milestone for NASA. It will be the first flight
1:13.3	on the new mega rocket, the space launch system, or SLS, and the first flight of the Artemis
1:19.6	program that is taking humans back to the moon for the first time in 50 years. Artemis 2 will be
1:26.9	the one that takes humans to the moon, but Artemis 1 is the
1:30.3	crucial uncrewed flight that will serve as a test to make sure everything is running A-OK for the
1:36.3	astronauts. It will also serve a number of research purposes, one of which is a mission called
1:41.8	Biosentenel. NASA describes it as the sole biological experiment that will be on Artemis 1,
1:48.3	with a primary objective of developing a biosensor instrument to detect and measure the impact of space radiation on living organisms over long durations beyond low Earth orbit.
2:01.1	Now, even though the Orion spacecraft from Artemis 1 will only be up in space for four to six weeks,
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