Why We Kiss, Ploonets, and The Unbelievable True Story of D.D. Palmer, the First Chiropractor
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 963 Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2019
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
Learn about ploonets, which are moons that leave their planets; the unbelievable true story of D.D. Palmer, the first chiropractor; and, why humans kiss.
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:
- Moons That Leave Their Planets Are Called Ploonets — https://curiosity.im/30CoK5f
- The Unbelievable True Story of the First Chiropractor — https://curiosity.im/2jCN33b
Additional resources discussed:
- Ask Smithsonian: Why Do We Kiss? | Smithsonian.com — https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/ask-smithsonian-why-do-we-kiss-180958059/
- Is the Romantic–Sexual Kiss a Near Human Universal? | American Anthropologist — https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/aman.12286
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, we're here from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter in just a few minutes. |
| 0:05.4 | I'm Cody Gough. And I'm Ashley Hamer. |
| 0:07.4 | Today you learn about moons that leave their planets and the unbelievable true story of the first |
| 0:12.4 | chiropractor. |
| 0:13.4 | We'll also answer a listener question about why humans kiss. |
| 0:16.8 | Don't satisfy some curiosity. |
| 0:18.8 | Scientists have given a name to a moon that migrates from its home planet to orbit a star. |
| 0:24.0 | And the name is amazing. |
| 0:26.0 | They're calling it, a plune it. |
| 0:28.0 | If you still don't think science is cool after this, |
| 0:31.0 | I don't know what to tell you. |
| 0:32.0 | Yeah, scientists are funny too, man. |
| 0:35.0 | The only minor catch is that nobody has ever actually seen a plune. We do know for sure |
| 0:40.8 | there are a bunch of Jupiter-sized planets that orbit super close to their parent |
| 0:45.0 | stars. |
| 0:46.5 | Moon's orbiting those planets would have to deal with a sort of tug-of-war between the gravitational |
| 0:50.4 | forces of its huge planet and its even bigger star. |
| 0:54.0 | If the moons don't get torn apart, it makes sense that they might migrate away from their home planet |
| 0:59.0 | and go into orbit around the star. |
| 1:01.0 | This is the scenario posed in a pre-print paper on archive which was led by Mario |
| 1:05.8 | Suserkya a planetary scientist at the University of Antiochia in Columbia. |
| 1:10.6 | Simulations suggest that Plunitz may be able to keep their orbits for a few |
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