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What Wind Chill Really Means, Learning Skills Faster with a Workout, and the Hypatia Stone

Curiosity Weekly

Warner Bros. Discovery

Self-improvement, Science, Astronomy, Education

4.6935 Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2019

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Learn about how the mysterious Hypatia stone could change what we know about our solar system; what wind chill actually means; and how you can learn skills faster with a 15-minute workout.

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:

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0:00.0

Hi, we're here from curiosity.com to help you get smarter in just a few minutes.

0:05.2

I'm Cody Gough.

0:06.1

And I'm Ashley Hamer.

0:07.1

Today you learn about how the mysterious Hypatious stone could change what we know about

0:11.3

our solar system.

0:12.3

Why windshield probably doesn't mean what you think it means,

0:15.4

and how you can learn skills faster with a 15 minute workout.

0:18.6

Let's satisfy some curiosity on the award-winning curiosity daily.

0:22.0

Have you heard of the Hypatia Stone?

0:24.0

It's really mysterious, and researchers don't know where it came from.

0:28.0

I'm not talking like they don't know which country it came from,

0:31.0

or even what planet.

0:32.0

This rock doesn't match the ingredients of our

0:34.6

solar system and its origins could change what we think we know about how our

0:38.9

solar system was formed. Here's the story. The Hypatia Stone was found in 1996 by a geologist in southwest Egypt

0:46.2

and it was named after the earliest known female mathematician and astronomer. The stone was covered in the kinds of

0:51.7

microscopic diamonds that suggest it came from outer space.

0:55.0

In 2013, researchers at the University of Johannesburg confirmed this and said it was likely the core of a comet, the first one we've ever found.

1:05.0

The stone didn't have the ingredients of any known comet, though,

1:09.0

so for a paper published in December 2017,

1:11.0

that team took a second crack at analyzing the stone.

1:14.8

This time they used sophisticated electron microscopy techniques to get a closer look at its

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