Why Do Young People Have More Déjà Vu?

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🗓️ 21 September 2020

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Learn about whether animals can predict earthquakes, why younger folks experience déjà vu more often, and how software that helped us reach the moon was literally woven by hand.

Can Animals Really Sense an Earthquake Coming? A New Study Says Yes by Grant Currin

Pratik Pawar. (2020, July 22). Animals Sense Earthquakes Before They Happen. Can They Help Us Predict Disasters? Discover Magazine. https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/animals-sense-earthquakes-before-they-happen-can-they-help-us-predict
Averett, N. (2020, July 31). Do Animals Really Anticipate Earthquakes? Sensors Hint They Do. Scientific American. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-animals-really-anticipate-earthquakes-sensors-hint-they-do/
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Wikelski, M., Mueller, U., Scocco, P., Catorci, A., Desinov, L. V., Belyaev, M. Y., Keim, D., Pohlmeier, W., Fechteler, G., & Martin Mai, P. (2020). Potential short‐term earthquake forecasting by farm animal monitoring. Ethology. https://doi.org/10.1111/eth.13078

Why Do Young People Experience More Déjà Vu? By Ashley Hamer

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The Apollo Missions Used Guidance Software That Was Literally Woven by Hand by Ashley Hamer

Brock, D.C. (September 2017). Software as Hardware: Apollo’s Rope Memory. IEEE Spectrum: Technology, Engineering, and Science News. https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/space-age/software-as-hardware-apollos-rope-memory
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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 Ashley Hamer.
0:08.0	And I'm Natalia Reagan.
0:09.0	Today you learn about whether barnyard animals or house dinosaurs in my case can sense an earthquake before it hits
0:14.4	while young folks are more prone to deja vu and how the software that helped us
0:18.1	reach the moon was literally woven by hand. Let's weave some curiosity. It's really hard to predict an earthquake.
0:27.0	We humans still have basically no idea at all how to do it. But people have long noticed that some animals seem to act
0:35.5	differently in the days and hours leading up to a tremor. So a team of
0:39.9	scientists recently came up with a way to use relatively new technology to see if a few barnyard test subjects did indeed behave differently before the ground started to shake.
0:51.0	The results are weak but promising. That whole business of not being able to predict earthquakes
0:56.6	makes them a hard phenomenon to study. But luckily for researchers an earthquake is usually
1:01.8	followed by several additional rounds of seismic activity.
1:05.2	That's why when a powerful earthquake shook Central Italy in October 2016,
1:10.0	the scientists behind this study high tailed it to the region.
1:13.6	They brought a set of instruments called biologgers
1:16.5	that contained sensors that detect and record movement.
1:19.7	They arrived less than a day after the earthquake
1:22.4	and attached the biologgers to several farm animals.
1:25.4	And then they waited. The trip turned out to be worth their while.
1:30.2	There were more than 18,000 tremors and another significant quake in the months that followed.
1:36.0	After crunching all that data and comparing the animal's movement patterns to the timing of the quakes and tremors,
1:42.0	the researchers reported a small but noticeable pattern.
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