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🗓️ 19 September 2024
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Today, you’ll learn about the smart soil that gives plants a massive boost even when they’re watered less, how our love of certain odors could be more nurture than nature, and a moss that could one day fill greenhouses on Mars.
Smart Soil
Smell Preferences
Mars Moss
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0:00.0 | Imagine sweeping through green fields, floating five feet above ground, sun on your face as you |
0:08.3 | slide by on track to your |
0:15.0 | there, |
0:20.0 | the care in the world as you simply lean back. And before you know it, you're there. |
0:21.0 | This is how travels should feel and on our trains it does. |
0:25.0 | Avanti West Coast feel good travel. Hello everyone my name is Nate and this is Curiosity Daily from Discovery the best place to get smarter in just a few minutes. |
0:43.2 | Hey everybody, my name is Callie and we are so excited to have you here with us today. |
0:46.8 | Today you'll learn about the smart soil that gives plants a massive boost, even when they're |
0:51.7 | watered less, how our love of certain odors could be |
0:55.3 | more nurture than nature and a moss that could one day fill greenhouses on Mars. |
1:01.2 | Okay I'm a little confused about the odors one, so we got to find out. |
1:05.0 | As the world heats up and our climate systems experience complicated and hard to predict changes, |
1:11.3 | scientists have their eyes on our fresh water supply. |
1:14.0 | By some estimates, the increase in drought frequency and severity |
1:17.6 | will impact as many as 3.2 billion people by the year 2050. |
1:22.6 | Now we talk a lot about research geared towards providing clean, fresh drinking water to |
1:26.5 | populations that could face shortages. |
1:28.8 | There's a ton of promising ideas, everything from mist collectors to lightweight desalination plants. |
1:33.7 | Absolutely, but here's the thing. 70% of the world's fresh water is used for agriculture. |
1:41.3 | Oh, okay, that's huge. |
1:43.3 | So that means that a lack of water |
1:45.2 | will not just leave billions of people thirsty. |
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