Weirdest Types of Lightning, Spotting Audio Lies Easily, and the Traveling Salesman Problem
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 963 Ratings
🗓️ 26 June 2019
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Learn about some of the weirdest types of lightning; why nobody’s been able to solve the traveling salesman problem; and why it’s easier to spot a lie on a podcast or radio show than it is in other media.
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In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter and learn something new in just a few minutes:
- 5 of the Weirdest Types of Lightning — https://curiosity.im/2RibX4m
- Why Fake News Spreads, Positive Lightning, and the Habitable Trinity [Past Curiosity Daily Episode] — https://curiosity.im/2KkZwEg
- The Traveling Salesman Problem Has Been Unsolved for Nearly 200 Years — https://curiosity.im/2JZPuIs
- It's Easier to Spot a Lie on the Radio Than on TV — https://curiosity.im/2JZPvw0
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, we're here from curiosity.com to help you get smarter in just a few minutes. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm Cody Gough. |
| 0:06.0 | And I'm Ashley Hamer. |
| 0:07.0 | Today you learn about some of the weirdest types of lightning, |
| 0:10.0 | why nobody's been able to solve the traveling salesman problem, |
| 0:13.0 | and why it's easier to spot a lie on a podcast or radio show |
| 0:17.0 | than it is in other media. |
| 0:19.0 | Let's satisfy some curiosity. |
| 0:20.0 | Around this time last year, |
| 0:22.0 | we talked about positive lightning, is a rare super powerful type of lightning |
| 0:26.4 | We'll put a link to that episode in today's show notes if you want to check it out |
| 0:29.6 | But today we wanted to talk about some other weird types of lightning and how they work. |
| 0:34.7 | I love rain and thunderstorms as long as I'm inside obviously or at least staying relatively dry somehow. |
| 0:41.8 | But these are types of lightning that I would not want to mess with. |
| 0:45.5 | Starting with dark lightning, it's a weird form of lightning that doesn't produce much visible |
| 0:50.8 | light at all. Regular lightning is made of relatively |
| 0:54.3 | slow electrons that carry currents through clouds or towards the ground, but dark |
| 0:59.4 | lightning is made up of high energy electrons that collide with air particles to produce dangerous |
| 1:05.0 | gamma rays. |
| 1:06.2 | Yeah, gamma rays. |
| 1:08.3 | According to NASA, Dark Lightning's terrestrial gamma ray flashes are among the highest energy light that naturally |
| 1:14.4 | occurs on Earth. They can blind satellite sensors hundreds of miles away. |
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