Why You Get Carsick, Climate-Saving Whales, Jupiter’s Rings
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 963 Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2021
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Learn about how saving the whales could help combat climate change; Jupiter’s rings; and why reading makes you carsick. Plus: a major announcement about the future of Curiosity Daily.
Saving the whales could help us capture more than a billion tons of CO2 every year by Briana Brownell
- Nature’s Solution to Climate Change – IMF F&D. (2019). Imf.org. https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2019/12/natures-solution-to-climate-change-chami.htm
- Blue Carbon in the Sanctuaries - Greater Farallones Association. (2021, October 4). Greater Farallones Association. https://farallones.org/climate/blue-carbon/
- The Great whales: All 13 species explained. (2020, February 12). Whale Watch Cabo Tours. http://whalewatchcabo.com/great-whales
Jupiter Has Rings by Ashley Hamer
- Does Jupiter have rings? (2021). Rmg.co.uk. https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/topics/does-jupiter-have-rings
- NASA - Jupiter’s Ring Formation Theories Confirmed. (2021). Nasa.gov. https://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/multimedia/largest/rings.html
Why Reading Makes You Carsick by Anna Todd
- Fresh Air. (2016, August 2). A Neuroscientist Explores The Illogical Behaviors Of The Mind In “Idiot Brain.” NPR.org; Fresh Air. https://www.npr.org/2016/08/02/488238350/a-neuroscientist-explores-the-illogical-behaviors-of-the-mind-in-idiot-brain
- Schmidt, E. A., Kuiper, O. X., Wolter, S., Diels, C., & Bos, J. E. (2020). An international survey on the incidence and modulating factors of carsickness. Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour, 71, 76–87. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trf.2020.03.012
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Discovery. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm Cody Gough. |
| 0:07.0 | And I'm Ashley Hamer. |
| 0:08.0 | Today, you learn about how saving the whales could help us combat climate change, |
| 0:12.0 | how Jupiter has rings, yep Jupiter, and why reading |
| 0:16.3 | in the car makes you car sick. |
| 0:18.0 | Plus stick around for a major announcement about the future of Curiosity Daily. It's pretty important, like very |
| 0:27.0 | important, pretty important. Yeah, you should probably listen to it. Yeah, but |
| 0:30.8 | for now let's satisfy some curiosity. |
| 0:34.0 | Usually people think about fighting climate change in order to save wildlife. |
| 0:40.0 | But what if wildlife could help us fight climate change? |
| 0:44.0 | Well that might be possible when it comes to whales. |
| 0:47.0 | Our giant swimming friends could be an all natural way to sequester carbon. You see each great whale accumulates about 33 tons of CO2 in their |
| 0:58.0 | body during their decades long life. And great whales refer to any of the 13 species of |
| 1:04.3 | ginormous cetaceans out there in the ocean. |
| 1:07.1 | When they die, they sink to the sea floor. |
| 1:10.1 | And all that carbon remains deep under the sea for centuries. |
| 1:15.0 | But that's not all. |
| 1:16.5 | It turns out that Wales have a multiplier effect on carbon sequestration |
| 1:22.0 | because of, well, their poop. |
| 1:25.0 | Since whales are mammals that breathe oxygen, they need to return to the surface to take each breath. |
| 1:31.0 | And that's where phytoplankton live. Phytoplankton are tiny water |
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