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Curiosity Weekly

Whiff of Victory, Bones be Chattin’, Desalination Innovation

Curiosity Weekly

Warner Bros. Discovery

Self-improvement, Science, Astronomy, Education

4.6935 Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2022

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Today, you’ll learn about how the human sense of smell may be much better than we ever thought, how the bones inside your body are having interesting conversations with your organs, and a new innovation in desalination technology that uses significantly less energy than its predecessors.

What’s that smell?

Your body talks without talking.

Water with salt on the side, please.

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0:00.0

Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Discovery.

0:08.6

Time flies when you're learning super cool stuff. I'm Nate.

0:11.6

And I'm Callie. If you're dropping in for the first time,

0:14.1

welcome to curiosity where we aim to blow your mind by helping you to grow your mind.

0:17.8

If you're a loyal listener, welcome back. Today you'll learn about how cultures across the world

0:22.1

often make constellations from the same groups of stars due to the nature of vision and perception.

0:27.0

What to do when an animal tries to steal your food during a picnic on the beach, and drones smaller than a red blood cell that can be controlled using only the power of light. the Yeah, just checking out the stars. I love finding all of my favorite constellations.

0:44.0

There's the big dipper, the belt of Orion. That one looks kind of like my Aunt Sheila.

0:49.0

Uh, I don't think I see that one. But that brings up a good point.

0:52.0

Did you know that the

0:53.2

constellations we see are actually based on our vision systems?

0:56.4

What do you mean? Like the way human vision works determines how we group stars

1:00.6

into constellations? Is that why so many cultures across the world

1:04.1

share similar shapes and patterns?

1:06.2

Precisely. For a long time scientists thought this was based mostly on

1:09.7

almost random groupings of stars, with many cultures identifying them as different

1:14.1

and specific to their own traditions. For instance, many of the large shapes in

1:17.5

European astronomy aren't identified across the world. To Europeans, the shapes

1:21.3

were just important objects and characters from their religions, mythologies, and even calendars.

1:25.5

What about the ones across cultures that aren't as specific?

1:28.8

Of course, there's some very obvious bold patterns that nearly everyone sees.

1:32.3

Like you said, the Big Dipper, the belt of Orion,

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