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Tune in to learn about how fire-breathing creatures are possible, what makes a bad breaker-upper, and new blazing fast, cheap, and accurate COVID tests. Dragons could be real. __ __ ____ Break up with someone the right way. __ __ ____ Speed meets accuracy with covid tests. __ __ __ ____ https://twitter.com/producercody https://www.instagram.com/calbits/ https://twitter.com/smashleyhamer https://www.instagram.com/nate_from_the_internet/ https://discoveryplus.com/curiosity https://curiosity-daily-4e53644e.simplecast.com/episodes/making-dragon-fire-dating-ghosts-blazing-fast-covid-tests
Do you want to know about a new environmentally friendly way to make TV Screens, what future space warfare might look like, and how we have finally completely unraveled the human genome? Rice is more than food. It’s TV. __ __ __ __ ____ Space weapons. __ __ __ __ __ ____ 100% Genome. __ __ __ __ ____ https://twitter.com/producercody https://www.instagram.com/calbits/ https://twitter.com/smashleyhamer https://www.instagram.com/nate_from_the_internet/ https://discoveryplus.com/curiosity https://curiosity-daily-4e53644e.simplecast.com/episodes/rice-tv-screen-satellite-warfare-unraveled-dna
Ever wonder about the artificial intelligence helping us find and fight Parkinson’s disease? What about the new methods for collecting energy from solar panels at night or how the tiny immortal jellyfish may help us massively extend our lifespans. Tune in to learn more! Robots that help. __ __ __ __ ____ Solar but at night. __ __ __ __ ____ Jellyfish: the secret to life. __ __ __ ____ https://twitter.com/producercody https://www.instagram.com/calbits/ https://twitter.com/smashleyhamer https://www.instagram.com/nate_from_the_internet/ https://discoveryplus.com/curiosity https://curiosity-daily-4e53644e.simplecast.com/episodes/ai-vs-parkinsons-dark-sun-power-death-proof-jellyfish
Learn about how we might be flushing the secret to anti-aging down the toilet, how cyborg cockroaches could save your life one day and how mushrooms may be talking to each other! The connection between poop and aging. __ __ ____ Search and rescue roaches. __ __ ____ Mushroom talks. __ __ __ __ __ ____ https://twitter.com/producercody https://www.instagram.com/calbits/ https://twitter.com/smashleyhamer https://www.instagram.com/nate_from_the_internet/ https://discoveryplus.com/curiosity https://curiosity-daily-4e53644e.simplecast.com/episodes/poop-of-youth-robot-roaches-chatty-fungus
Listen in to hear how nostalgic thoughts can be a method of physical pain relief, the recent progress made in the effort to one day upload our minds to the digital world, and how getting nanoplastic out of our drinking water could be as simple as sand! Memories can be pain free. __ __ ____ Digital thoughts. __ __ __ __ __ ____ Water without plastic. __ __ __ __ ____ https://twitter.com/producercody https://www.instagram.com/calbits/ https://twitter.com/smashleyhamer https://www.instagram.com/nate_from_the_internet/ https://discoveryplus.com/curiosity https://curiosity-daily-4e53644e.simplecast.com/episodes/nostalgia-blocks-pain-uploaded-brains-sand-vs-nanoplastic
Discover how artificial intelligence can help prevent heart attacks, how scientists are working to bring an extinct species back from the dead, and how sugar in our own body might soon make electricity! Heart attack prevention. __ __ __ __ __ ____ Back from the dead. __ __ __ __ ____ Sugar: it’s electric. __ __ __ __ ____ https://twitter.com/producercody https://www.instagram.com/calbits/ https://twitter.com/smashleyhamer https://www.instagram.com/nate_from_the_internet/ https://discoveryplus.com/curiosity https://curiosity-daily-4e53644e.simplecast.com/episodes/ai-and-angina-undead-tigers-electrici-sweets
Hear from Joe Rohde, a former Disney Imagineer and the Experience Architect for Virgin Galactic. As an Imagineer, he was the leader of the team behind Disney’s Animal Kingdom. Joe is also Co-Chair of the Explorers Club 50 program. __ __ https://www.instagram.com/calbits/ https://www.instagram.com/nate_from_the_internet/ https://discoveryplus.com/curiosity Find episode transcripts here: https://curiosity-daily-4e53644e.simplecast.com/episodes/the-explorers-club-an-interview-with-joe-rohde
Hear about a new treatment that may be able to reverse hearing loss, how new solar energy storage technology could eventually power our phones, and the surprisingly grand history of chickens. Reversing hearing loss. __ __ __ __ __ ____ Phone charger, but make it the sun. __ __ __ __ ____ Chicken breeding. __ __ __ ____ https://twitter.com/producercody https://www.instagram.com/calbits/ https://twitter.com/smashleyhamer https://www.instagram.com/nate_from_the_internet/ https://discoveryplus.com/curiosity https://curiosity-daily-4e53644e.simplecast.com/episodes/healing-hearing-hairs-sun-phones-chicken-gods
Learn about how Japanese honey bees protect themselves from murder hornets, how a new link has been discovered between ADHD and hoarding disorder, and how your over the counter pain meds, might actually be making your pain worse! Honey avoiding murder. __ __ ____ Does having ADHD mean you’re more likely to be a hoarder? __ __ ____ Hold the meds. __ __ ____ https://twitter.com/producercody https://www.instagram.com/calbits/ https://twitter.com/smashleyhamer https://www.instagram.com/nate_from_the_internet/ https://discoveryplus.com/curiosity https://curiosity-daily-4e53644e.simplecast.com/episodes/murdering-murder-hornets-adhd-hoarding-pain-pill-ills
Today, you’ll learn about a new project trying to keep humans and sharks separate and safe, how all sharks almost mysteriously went extinct 19 million years ago, and how great white sharks may have contributed to the extinction of a shark twice its size! Boundaries between sharks and humans. __ __ ____ Near extinction. __ __ __ ____ Great white > megalodon __ __ __ ____ For more about sharks, head to SharkWeek.com and don't miss #SharkWeek starting 7/24 on Discovery and streaming on discovery+. Find episode transcripts here: https://curiosity-daily-4e53644e.simplecast.com/episodes/extinct-super-sharks-mysterious-die-offs-stopping-attacks https://twitter.com/producercody https://www.instagram.com/calbits/ https://twitter.com/smashleyhamer https://www.instagram.com/nate_from_the_internet/ https://discoveryplus.com/curiosity
Today, you’ll learn about how some sharks have social relationships, how shark attacks often happen because swimming humans look like other sea creatures, and how your cat might be snacking on endangered sharks! Sharkship. __ __ ____ Sharks could use glasses. __ __ ____ Check your cat’s food ingredients for shark. __ __ __ ____ Find episode transcripts here: https://curiosity-daily-4e53644e.simplecast.com/episodes/blood-brothers-seeing-eye-shark-bark-vs-bite For more about sharks, head to SharkWeek.com and don't miss #SharkWeek starting 7/24 on Discovery and streaming on discovery+. https://twitter.com/producercody https://www.instagram.com/calbits/ https://twitter.com/smashleyhamer https://www.instagram.com/nate_from_the_internet/ https://discoveryplus.com/curiosity
Today, you’ll learn about how some sharks do in fact sleep, how sharks are fighting climate change, and how some sharks glow in the dark! Shark nap time. __ __ __ __ __ __ ____ Sharks are good for the earth. __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ ____ A different kind of night light. __ __ ____ For more about sharks, head to SharkWeek.com and don't miss #SharkWeek starting 7/24 on Discovery and streaming on discovery+. Find episode transcripts here: https://curiosity-daily-4e53644e.simplecast.com/episodes/sleepy-sharks-sharks-love-grass-glow-in-the-shark https://twitter.com/producercody https://www.instagram.com/calbits/ https://twitter.com/smashleyhamer https://www.instagram.com/nate_from_the_internet/ https://discoveryplus.com/curiosity
Today, we are continuing our Explorers Club series today with a very special guest, Dr. Natalie Schmitt. Dr. Schmitt can do it all - really. She’s not only a conservation geneticist, but she’s a marine ecologist and documentary host. __ __ https://twitter.com/producercody https://www.instagram.com/calbits/ https://twitter.com/smashleyhamer https://www.instagram.com/nate_from_the_internet/ https://discoveryplus.com/curiosity https://curiosity-daily-4e53644e.simplecast.com/episodes/the-explorers-club-an-interview-with-natalie-schmitt
Today, you’ll learn about a new drug that could help you safely lose up to a fifth of your body weight, a new, non-hormonal birth control pill that is made for men, and how drones may hold the key to reforestation. Weight loss five times faster. __ __ ____ Men entering the world of birth control. __ __ __ __ ____ Seed bombing may not be what you think. __ __ ____ https://twitter.com/producercody https://www.instagram.com/calbits/ https://twitter.com/smashleyhamer https://www.instagram.com/nate_from_the_internet/ https://discoveryplus.com/curiosity https://curiosity-daily-4e53644e.simplecast.com/episodes/wait-less-weight-loss-birth-control-for-men-seed-bombing
Today, you’ll learn about why symmetry dominates the natural world, how it may be possible to conserve water using solar panels, and why growing vegetables might soon involve a trip to the Moon. Two halves make a whole. __ __ __ ____ Sun = more water. __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ ____ Grocery shopping on the moon. __ __ ____ https://twitter.com/producercody https://www.instagram.com/calbits/ https://twitter.com/smashleyhamer https://www.instagram.com/nate_from_the_internet/ https://discoveryplus.com/curiosity https://curiosity-daily-4e53644e.simplecast.com/episodes/why-symmetry-wins-solar-covered-canals-plants-on-the-moon
Today, we’re hearing from an explorer's explorer, Victor Vescovo. His Five Deeps Expedition made him the first person to reach the deepest point of the Atlantic, Southern Ocean, and set a depth record in the Mariana Trench at 35,853 ft. He was the first person to reach the Mollow Deep in the Arctic Ocean, and thus has been to the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd deepest points in the ocean. __ __ https://twitter.com/producercody https://www.instagram.com/calbits/ https://twitter.com/smashleyhamer https://www.instagram.com/nate_from_the_internet/ https://discoveryplus.com/curiosity https://curiosity-daily-4e53644e.simplecast.com/episodes/the-explorers-club-an-interview-with-victor-vescovo
Today, you’ll learn about how a drug that helps in human organ transplants might be able to extend the lives of man’s best friend, the airline industry's potential but difficult switch to hydrogen fuel, and how a high school student is transforming prosthetics with brain waves. All dogs go to heaven. __ __ __ ____ Planes, planes, planes. __ __ __ ____ Mind over matter. __ __ __ ____ https://twitter.com/producercody https://www.instagram.com/calbits/ https://twitter.com/smashleyhamer https://www.instagram.com/nate_from_the_internet/ https://discoveryplus.com/curiosity https://curiosity-daily-4e53644e.simplecast.com/episodes/rapamycin-for-rover-h-fueled-flight-mind-controlled-arms
Today, you’ll learn about whether the cyanide in apple seeds could do you any real harm, how working out in the morning and at night are both beneficial but in different ways, and how researchers have found evidence that patients with long Covid may often have fragments of the virus lingering in their gut. Snow White wasn’t far off with the poisonous apple. __ __ ____ What time should I work out? “Is It Better to Exercise in the Morning or Evening?" by Gretchen Reynolds ● https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/19/well/exercise-timing.html “This is the Best Time of Day to Work Out, According to Science" by Jamie Ducharme ● https://time.com/5533388/best-time-to-exercise/ An even scarier kind of ghost? __ __ __ ____ https://twitter.com/producercody https://www.instagram.com/calbits/ https://twitter.com/smashleyhamer https://www.instagram.com/nate_from_the_internet/ https://discoveryplus.com/curiosity https://curiosity-daily-4e53644e.simplecast.com/episodes/cyanide-seeds-workout-when-covid-but-ghosts
Today, we are lucky enough to hear from a highly accomplished explorer who has some incredible experiences to share with us. Dr. Sian Proctor was the mission pilot for the Inspiration4, which is the all-civilian orbital mission to space and she’s the first African American woman to pilot a spacecraft. She also lived in a Mars analog environment to simulate what it might be like to live on the red planet. __ __ https://twitter.com/producercody https://www.instagram.com/calbits/ https://twitter.com/smashleyhamer https://www.instagram.com/nate_from_the_internet/ https://discoveryplus.com/curiosity
Today, you’ll learn about how high blood pressure can reduce the gray matter in your brain, why scientists think the surface of Mercury is covered in diamonds, and how while we have gene pairs from both parents, our bodies will use one parent’s gene over the other’s depending on the circumstances. 50 Shades of Gray Matter __ __ ____ Diamonds a Plenty __ __ __ ____ Mom and dad genes aren’t just at the mall. __ __ __ ____ https://twitter.com/producercody https://www.instagram.com/calbits/ https://twitter.com/smashleyhamer https://www.instagram.com/nate_from_the_internet/ https://discoveryplus.com/curiosity
Today, you’ll learn about how orangutans use slang a lot like we do, what causes and can alleviate everyday motion sickness, and how one black hole kicked another across the galaxy. Orangutans are dope. __ __ __ __ ____ A solution beyond not looking at your phone. __ __ ____ Soccer but with black holes. __ __ __ __ __ ____ https://twitter.com/producercody https://www.instagram.com/calbits/ https://twitter.com/smashleyhamer https://www.instagram.com/nate_from_the_internet/ https://discoveryplus.com/curiosity https://curiosity-daily-4e53644e.simplecast.com/episodes/orangu-slang-easing-car-queasing-kicked-across-space
Today, we’re hearing from an explorer and filmmaker named Steve Elkins. Steve spent decades searching for a legendary lost city deep in the jungles of Honduras. His search for the city was documented in the New York Times best selling book, “The Lost City of the Monkey God,” by Douglas Preston. __ __ https://twitter.com/producercody https://www.instagram.com/calbits/ https://twitter.com/smashleyhamer https://www.instagram.com/nate_from_the_internet/ https://discoveryplus.com/curiosity https://curiosity-daily-4e53644e.simplecast.com/episodes/the-explorers-club-an-interview-with-steve-elkins
Today, you’ll learn about how a single drink a day can add years to the age of your brain, how scientists figured out that thousands of tree species are yet to be discovered, and how the world’s biggest and best particle accelerator is powering up for its third run. A drink away does not keep the doctor away. __ __ __ __ ____ No, that tree is not the same as that other one. __ __ __ ____ Imagine two needles smashing into each other. __ __ __ __ __ __ ____ https://twitter.com/producercody https://www.instagram.com/calbits/ https://twitter.com/smashleyhamer https://www.instagram.com/nate_from_the_internet/ https://discoveryplus.com/curiosity https://curiosity-daily-4e53644e.simplecast.com/episodes/drink-brain-shrink-secret-tree-species-lhc-round-3
Today, you’ll learn about how that light coming in through your window at night is in fact ruining your sleep, how some diseases—including cancer—can be smelled by dogs and we’re on the verge of being able to smell them with modern technology, and how algae may one day provide the power for our smallest devices. Close your blinds. __ __ __ __ __ ____ What’s that smell? __ __ __ __ ____ Get used to algae-power. __ __ __ __ ____ https://twitter.com/producercody https://www.instagram.com/calbits/ https://twitter.com/smashleyhamer https://www.instagram.com/nate_from_the_internet/ https://discoveryplus.com/curiosity https://curiosity-daily-4e53644e.simplecast.com/episodes/nightlight-plight-cancer-stinks-literal-green-energy
Today we are speaking to another member of the Explorers Club, Peter Tattersfield. Peter has an awesome story for us today about his work finding the shipwreck of the Steamship Independence, which sank off the coast of Baja, Mexico in 1853. __ __ https://twitter.com/producercody https://www.instagram.com/calbits/ https://twitter.com/smashleyhamer https://www.instagram.com/nate_from_the_internet/ https://discoveryplus.com/curiosity https://curiosity-daily-4e53644e.simplecast.com/episodes/the-explorers-club-an-interview-with-peter-tattersfield
Today, you’ll learn about how a man with advanced ALS, who can’t move a muscle, was able to communicate with his family using his thoughts, about a sixty-year-old mystery involving the earth and why it pulsates every twenty-six seconds, and how cats can learn the names of their fellow cats under the right conditions. A man with ALS can communicate with his thoughts. __ __ ____ The earth pulsates underneath your feet. __ __ ____ Cats know the names of their friends. __ __ __ ____ https://twitter.com/producercody https://www.instagram.com/calbits/ https://twitter.com/smashleyhamer https://www.instagram.com/nate_from_the_internet/ https://discoveryplus.com/curiosity https://curiosity-daily-4e53644e.simplecast.com/episodes/gray-matter-gabfest-our-pulsating-earth-smarty-cats
Today, you’ll learn about how carnivorous plants evolved from their more peaceful ancestors, how there’s an apparent difference in the frequency and severity of head injuries between male and female athletes, and about a new theory regarding the cause of Alzheimer’s. Plants that eat flesh? __ __ ____ Male and female concussions are not the same. __ __ ____ Hope for Alzheimer's research. __ __ __ ____ https://twitter.com/producercody https://www.instagram.com/calbits/ https://twitter.com/smashleyhamer https://www.instagram.com/nate_from_the_internet/ https://discoveryplus.com/curiosity https://curiosity-daily-4e53644e.simplecast.com/episodes/hungry-plants-concussion-confusion-an-alzheimers-theory
Today, we’re talking to Explorers Club member, Dr. George C. Nield. Dr. George C. Nield is currently the Associate Administrator for Commercial Space Transportation at the Federal Aviation Administration (or FAA). He has over 30 years of aerospace experience and has worked with the Air Force and NASA. Dr Nield came to the FAA from the Orbital Sciences Corporation, where he served as a Senior Scientist for the Advanced Programs Group. He has a wealth of experience from working as an Astronautical Engineer at the Space and Missile Systems Organization to working on the Shuttle/Mir Program and the International Space Station Program. __ __ ____ https://twitter.com/producercody https://www.instagram.com/calbits/ https://twitter.com/smashleyhamer https://www.instagram.com/nate_from_the_internet/ https://discoveryplus.com/curiosity https://curiosity-daily-4e53644e.simplecast.com/episodes/the-explorers-club-an-interview-with-george-nield
Today, you’ll learn about why it's best to leave your shoes at the door when you come inside, how animals form and maintain their mesmerizing murmurations, and how certain food storage products release sub-microscopic, plastic particles when exposed to hot water. Your mom was right about taking your shoes off inside. __ __ __ ____ Murmurations not murmuring. __ __ __ ____ The tiny side of plastic. __ __ __ ____ https://twitter.com/producercody https://www.instagram.com/calbits/ https://twitter.com/smashleyhamer https://www.instagram.com/nate_from_the_internet/ https://discoveryplus.com/curiosity https://curiosity-daily-4e53644e.simplecast.com/episodes/shoo-shoes-murmuration-information-nanoplastic-particles
Today, you’ll learn about how the next step in nuclear fusion is actually a real estate question, how the death of our sun would be a beautiful thing to see if we were around to witness it, and how an athlete’s desire for perfection can lead to them burning out with their sport altogether. Nuclear plants near the nuclear family. __ __ ____ A new take on sun flares. __ __ __ ____ Perfection can be dangerous. __ __ ____ https://twitter.com/producercody https://www.instagram.com/calbits/ https://twitter.com/smashleyhamer https://www.instagram.com/nate_from_the_internet/ https://discoveryplus.com/curiosity https://curiosity-daily-4e53644e.simplecast.com/episodes/fusion-homeward-bound-the-last-light-show-burnout-blues
