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Your Life Runs on GPS. And GPS Runs on Duct Tape

Curiosity Weekly

Warner Bros. Discovery

Self-improvement, Science, Astronomy, Education

4.6935 Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

GPS runs our world, but the system is far from perfect and much more fragile than people believe. This episode, GPS expert Logan Scott speaks with senior producer Teresa Carey about the past, present, and future of GPS and how to avoid catastrophe when something goes wrong. Host, Dr. Samantha Yammine also explores the first new potential treatment for Huntington’s disease and how queen ants are creating clones of other species.  

 

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1:34.5

Finally, there's a glimmer of hope against one of the cruelest diseases we know, Huntington's.

1:40.4

For the first time, this condition, long thought untreatable, has been slowed in patients through

1:45.8

a groundbreaking gene therapy. The clinical trial isn't fully complete or peer-reviewed yet,

1:50.8

but the early results are remarkable. People once expected to decline are now regaining parts of

1:56.7

their lives. And speaking of pushing boundaries, nature itself is breaking the rules. Picture this.

2:03.1

A common European ant whose queen can do something biologist thought was impossible. Produce males

2:08.7

of a completely different species. These ants bend the rules of biology with some wild

2:13.9

genetic sleight of hand, a living example of evolution's unpredictability.

2:18.9

Meanwhile, something we want to stay predictable and reliable, satellite navigation, GPS, and the

2:25.0

internet, which we use for nearly everything. So we have to ask, how resilient is the infrastructure

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