Barnacle Polymers, Two Week Brain, Elephant Memory

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Warner Bros. Discovery

Self-improvement, Science, Astronomy, Education

4.6 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Today, you’ll learn about a new bacteria-busting polymer inspired by barnacles, how the things you do today will affect your brain in two weeks, and the memories elephants keep of their favorite people from long ago.

Barnacle Polymers

“Barnacle-inspired polymers could present new way to design antibiofilm materials, researchers say.” by Cynthia McCormick Hibbdrt. 2024.
“Coacervate Dense Phase Displaces Surface-Established Pseudomonas aeruginosa Biofilms.” by Apoorva Vishwakarma, et al. 2024.

Two Week Brain

“Your Brain Changes Based on What You Did Two Weeks Ago.” by Pandora Dewan. 2024.
“Longitudinal single-subject neuroimaging study reveals effects of daily environmental, physiological, and lifestyle factors on functional brain connectivity.” by Ana Maria Triana, et al. 2024.

Elephant Memory

“Do African Savanna Elephants (Loxodonta africana) Show Interspecific Social Long-Term Memory for Their Zoo Keepers?” by Martin Kranzlin, et al. 2024.
“Truth or Tail: Elephants have good memories.” Cleveland Zoo Society. 2021.
“Long-Term Olfactory Memory in African Elephants.” by Franziska Hoerner, et al. 2023.

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0:43.4	As Nate said, we are so excited to have you here with us today. It's going to be a fun ride. I'm Callie.
0:47.9	Today you'll learn about a new bacteria-busting polymer inspired by barnacles, how the things you do today will affect your brain in two weeks,
0:56.1	and the memories elephants keep of their favorite people from long ago.
0:59.9	There's elephants. Can I dibs that story? No, you have that story. Dang it.
1:04.1	Among all the world's great challenges, climate change, ocean acidification, habitat loss,
1:09.4	one we come back to fairly often is antibiotic
1:12.0	resistance. We've covered a lot of potential solutions, new drugs and treatments that target
1:16.9	different parts of the bacterial cells or disrupt their genes, but it does seem like the
1:21.5	fix isn't coming fast enough. Couldn't have put it better myself. By some measures, bacterial
1:26.4	antimicrobial resistance or antibiotic resistance
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