Why Are the COVID-19 Vaccines Kept So Cold?
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 964 Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2021
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Learn about how the Faroe Islands created their own Google Street View using sheep; why some vaccines (like Pfizer’s and Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccines) have to be kept so cold; and why it’s easier to understand a second language than it is to speak it.
The Faroe Islands Created Their Own Google Street View with Sheep by Anna Todd
- Visit Faroe Islands - The ultimate guide to the Faroe Islands. (2016). Visit Faroe Islands. https://visitfaroeislands.com/
- Lockhart, K. (2016, August 31). Google Sheep View: Tech giant to map out Faroe Islands using sheep, ships and wheelbarrows. The Telegraph. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/08/31/google-sheep-view-tech-giant-agrees-to-help-to-map-out-faroe-isl/
- Google Street View on the Faroe Islands: https://goo.gl/maps/tA7359hiqbRd8uGfA
Why do some vaccines have to be kept so cold? by Cameron Duke
- How Influenza (Flu) Vaccines Are Made. (2020). https://www.cdc.gov/flu/prevent/how-fluvaccine-made.htm
- Moderna Announces Longer Shelf Life for its COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate at Refrigerated Temperatures | Moderna, Inc. (2020). Moderna, Inc. https://investors.modernatx.com/news-releases/news-release-details/moderna-announces-longer-shelf-life-its-covid-19-vaccine
- RNA vaccines: an introduction. (2018). PHG Foundation. https://www.phgfoundation.org/briefing/rna-vaccines
- Why Does Pfizer’s COVID-19 Vaccine Need To Be Kept Colder Than Antarctica? (2020, November 17). NPR.org. https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/11/17/935563377/why-does-pfizers-covid-19-vaccine-need-to-be-kept-colder-than-antarctica
Scientists may have discovered why it's easier to understand a second language than speak it by Kelsey Donk
- Learning a new language changes the brain’s division of labor. (2020). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-11/sfn-lan111720.php
- Gurunandan, K., Arnaez-Telleria, J., Carreiras, M., & Paz-Alonso, P. M. (2020). Converging evidence for differential specialisation and plasticity of language systems. The Journal of Neuroscience, JN-RM-0851-20. https://doi.org/10.1523/jneurosci.0851-20.2020
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Curiosity.com. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm Cody Goff. And I'm Ashley Hamer. |
| 0:08.0 | Today you learn about how a small country created their own Google Street View using sheep, why some of the new |
| 0:14.7 | coronavirus vaccines have to be kept so cold, and why it's easier to understand a |
| 0:19.3 | second language than it is to speak it. Let's satisfy some curiosity. |
| 0:23.7 | People in rural areas are used to being overlooked by big tech, |
| 0:28.8 | but in 2016, one woman living on a remote chain of islands had had enough. |
| 0:34.0 | Her islands weren't on Google Street View, the humanity. |
| 0:38.0 | So she created her own Street View with the help of some local sheep. Oh yeah, she made a Google |
| 0:46.3 | sheep view. The Islander in question is Duretta Andreessen and the remote islands in question were the Faroe Islands. |
| 0:56.0 | The Faroe Islands are an autonomous archipelago country within the kingdom of Denmark, |
| 1:01.2 | located roughly equidistant between Norway, Iceland, and Scotland. |
| 1:06.2 | The country's name translates to the islands of sheep in Danish. |
| 1:10.6 | That's fitting as the country is home to 80,000 sheep, which is almost double the number of humans. |
| 1:17.0 | Andreessen works for the Faroe's tourism board, so when she discovered that the Faroe Islands were missing from Google Street View, |
| 1:24.2 | she launched a video series to attract Google's attention by showing off the beauty of her homeland. |
| 1:30.3 | Andreessen and her team attached solar-powered 360 degree cameras to a flock of sheep and let them loose. |
| 1:38.0 | As the sheep roamed the remote areas of the islands, they captured images that were sent directly to Andreessen with GPS |
| 1:45.3 | coordinates. Then she uploaded these pictures to Google Street View herself. With the accompanying |
| 1:50.9 | hashtag, we want Google Street View. |
| 1:54.2 | Not only was Andreas and able to get the attention of many potential tourists, |
| 1:58.8 | but Google finally hurt her please, loud and clear. |
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