NASA’s Sun Probe, Waking Up on the Wrong Side of the Bed, and Tongue Rolling Isn’t Genetic

Curiosity Weekly

Warner Bros. Discovery

Self-improvement, Science, Astronomy, Education

4.6 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2018

⏱️ 8 minutes

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In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories to help you get smarter and learn something new in just a few minutes:

NASA Is Sending a Probe to the Sun. Here's How They Keep It From Melting
Waking Up on the Wrong Side of the Bed Is Totally Real
- You know what's an important part of waking up on the right side of the bed? Getting some good sleep to begin with. Pick up "Sleep Smarter" by Shawn Stevenson on audiobook and make your nights more restful and successful.
Despite What You Learned in School, Tongue Rolling Isn't Simple Genetics

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0:00.0	Hi, we've got three stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter in just a few minutes.
0:05.3	I'm Cody Guff. And I'm Ashley Hamer. Today you learn about a probe NASA is sending into the sun
0:10.4	and how they're going to keep it from melting. Science that says waking up on the wrong side of the bed is totally real,
0:16.0	and a trick you can do with your tongue that,
0:18.0	surprise, is not determined by your genes.
0:21.0	That's satisfy some curiosity.
0:22.0	Okay, Cody, so in the script here, you said... by your
0:25.0	favorite song about the sun.
0:28.0	I really like walk into the sun
0:30.7	produced by a British house music trio Dirty Vegas. that I think about it I do have a favorite song about the sun and it is they might be giants the sun is a mass of incandescent gas which is my favorite because they actually revised it once scientists talked to them and said,
0:47.6	it's actually not gas, it's plasma.
0:50.0	So now it's the sun is a measma of incandescent plasma. It's great.
0:55.0	That sounds better anyway. Yeah, right. But I think we can probably both agree that one of the best sun songs literally ever is Black Hole
1:00.8	Sun. Oh yeah, that's a really good one one it's just so good you don't even you
1:04.9	don't even need to mention it everybody likes black hole sun all right well
1:08.6	speaking of the sun did you know that NASA is sending a probe to the sun in a couple weeks? I did not know that
1:16.2	before I read this article. Yeah at least on August 4th you know sometimes these these
1:20.8	launches change the day depending on weather and things like that.
1:24.4	But no earlier than August 4th, we're sending the Parker's solar probe to check out the sun's
1:28.9	atmosphere.
1:30.1	And I'm here to answer your burning question,
1:32.7	how is it supposed to survive in the temperatures of the sun,
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