Peanut Allergy, Ancient Cancer Treatment, Cuckoo Evolution
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 935 Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2024
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Today, you’ll learn about why giving babies foods with peanuts could crack the peanut allergy problem, a wild discovery of cancer treatment 4,000 years ago, and the sneaky way cuckoos evolve to look like other birds so they can live in their nests.
Peanut Allergy
- “Giving young children peanut products cuts allergy risk, study finds.” by Ian Sample. 2024.
- “Peanut Allergies.” Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. 2024.
- “Follow-up to Adolescence after Early Peanut Introduction for Allergy Prevention.” by George Du Toit, et al. 2024.
Ancient Cancer Treatment
- “‘Extraordinary’ 4,000-year-old Egyptian skull may show signs of attempts to treat cancer.” EurekAlert! 2024.
- “Case report: Boundaries of oncological and traumatological medical care in ancient Egypt: new palaeopathological insights from two human skulls.” by Tatiana Tondini, et al. 2024.
Cuckoo Evolution
- “Cuckoos evolve to look like their hosts - and form new species in the process.” University of Cambridge. 2024.
- “Cuckoo guide: why they call ‘cuckoo’, how they trick other birds, and where they go in winter.” by Megan Shersby. 2022.
- “Coevolution with hosts underpins speciation in brood-parasitic cuckoos.” by N.E. Langmore, et al. 2024.
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| 0:00.0 | Great to have you here at Curiosity Daily from Discovery, the best place to get smarter in just a few minutes. |
| 0:09.0 | I'm Nate. |
| 0:10.0 | How the heck are you guys? |
| 0:11.0 | This is Curiosity and I'm Callie. |
| 0:13.0 | Today you'll learn about why giving babies foods with peanuts could crack the peanut |
| 0:17.8 | allergy problem. A wild discovery of cancer treatment 4,000 years ago and and the sneaky way cuckoos evolved to look like other birds |
| 0:26.7 | so they can live in their nests. |
| 0:28.2 | Okay, let's find out. |
| 0:30.0 | Anyone with school-age kids knows the struggle. |
| 0:32.4 | You can send fruit to school, you can send crackers, you can send all kinds of things, but not peanuts. |
| 0:37.0 | Right, peanut allergies are wild. I know that some kids are so allergic they can't even be in the same room with peanuts and the |
| 0:43.7 | problems peanuts are in like all sorts of stuff crackers snacks candy yeah |
| 0:48.2 | totally and for lots of people it's not just like an itchy sneezy kind of |
| 0:51.9 | allergy peanuts can cause anaphylaxis, making the throat |
| 0:55.0 | swell shut. A drop in blood pressure will make you dizzy and light-headed or even lose consciousness. |
| 1:01.2 | And then there's the vomiting and nausea, the hives, the swelling of the face, the lips, the tongue. |
| 1:06.5 | It's, it's really not pretty. |
| 1:08.5 | And by some measures, up to around 5% of American school-age kids suffer from peanut allergy. |
| 1:14.0 | I have heard that some kids can kind of like outgrow it. |
| 1:17.0 | That's right. |
| 1:18.0 | Some estimates say that around 20% of kids will eventually outgrow it. |
| 1:21.0 | So a new study wanted to dig a little deeper into the peanut |
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