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🗓️ 15 August 2024
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Today, you’ll learn about how when chimpanzees can’t figure out how to do something they get their friends to teach them, a potential breakthrough in the fight against breast cancer, and how singing repairs the brain after a stroke.
Chimpanzee Learning
Breast Cancer Gel
Singing Brain Repair
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0:00.0 | Hi, welcome to the best place to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Discovery. |
0:09.0 | I'm Nate. |
0:10.0 | And I'm Callie. |
0:11.0 | If you're dropping in for the first time, welcome to curiosity where we aim to |
0:13.6 | blow your mind by helping you to grow your mind. If you're a listener, welcome back. |
0:17.3 | Today you'll learn about how, when chimpanzees can't figure out how to do something, they |
0:22.1 | get their friends to teach them, a potential |
0:24.4 | breakthrough in the fight against breast cancer, and how singing repairs the brain after a stroke. |
0:29.9 | All right, let's get into it. |
0:31.9 | If you've been listening to this show for a bit, you know that I am a huge fan of chimpanzees. |
0:36.7 | I've been down a few rabbit holes on Wikipedia and YouTube because they are just so interesting |
0:41.0 | to learn about. |
0:42.1 | They are absolutely incredible creatures. |
0:44.4 | They're not only our closest biological relative, |
0:47.0 | but they actually have so much in common with us. |
0:50.0 | Big personalities, big brains, big social structures. |
0:53.6 | They're endlessly fascinating. |
0:55.2 | And a new study has found another really amazing connection between humans and chimps. |
0:59.6 | It turns out chimps are able to teach each other new skills. |
1:03.0 | Interesting. |
1:04.9 | What is the alternative there? |
1:06.8 | Like in other words, how else do you learn a skill except by being taught? |
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