Fly Brains, Comb Jelly Fusion, Dog Voice
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 935 Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2024
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Today, you’ll learn about the entire neuron-for-neuron model of a fly brain, jellyfish that can merge together seamlessly, and how talking to our dogs in that way-too-cutesy voice might actually have a purpose.
Fly Brains
- “Researchers simulate an entire fly brain on a laptop. Is a human brain next?” by Robert Sanders. 2024.
- “A Drosophila computational brain model reveals sensorimotor processing.” by Philip K. Shiu, et al. 2024.
Comb Jelly Fusion
- “Injured comb jellies can fuse into a single organism.” by Jacek Krywko. 2024.
- “Rapid physiological integration of fused ctenophores.” by Kei Jokura, et al. 2024.
Dog Voice
- “Our cutesy cringey dog voices could be practical, after all.” SciMex. 2024.
- “Dog-human vocal interactions match dogs’ sensory-motor tuning.” by Eloise C. Deaux, et al. 2024.
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| 0:49.4 | Today, you'll learn about the entire neuron-for-neuron model of a fly brain, jellyfish that can merge together |
| 0:56.3 | seamlessly, and how talking to our dogs in that way too cutesy voice might actually have a purpose. |
| 1:02.8 | Okay, wait, two out of three stories about animals, sort of animals. I'm really excited. |
| 1:07.2 | A team of scientists has successfully built a simulation of the complete wiring diagram of the adult fruit fly brain. |
| 1:14.3 | A diagram like this is called a connectome and this one represents 139,25 neurons and 50 million connections. |
| 1:23.5 | Wow, that is pretty mind-blowing. No fun in time. |
| 1:34.3 | But I'm wondering, what can we actually do with a complete model of the brain of a fruit fly? |
| 1:45.5 | Okay, well, turns out there are potentially a lot of answers to your question, most of which are still a bit undefined. But let me dig into the study a little bit, which will shed some light on the big picture. |
| 1:53.3 | So this connectome was built using about 7,000 thin brain slices from a female fruit fly, which was imaged with electron microscopy. |
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