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Curiosity Weekly

Space Firefighting, Sleep Schedules, Polystyrene

Curiosity Weekly

Warner Bros. Discovery

Self-improvement, Science, Astronomy, Education

4.6935 Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Today, you’ll learn about AI that can detect wildfires from space, why going to bed late might not be so great on your mental health, and a breakthrough in recycling.  

 

Space Firefighting 

 

 

Sleep Schedules  

 

 

Polystyrene 

 

  • “New polystyrene recycling process could be world’s first to be both economical and energy-efficient.” University of Bath. 2024.  
  • “Thermodynamic and economic analysis of a deployable and scalable process to recover Monomer-Grade styrene from waste polystyrene.” by Madison R. Reed, et al. 2024.  

 

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0:00.0

So, so, so skin.

0:02.0

Get your morning mojo going with woolen-like Greek style.

0:08.0

Now with a new recipe, with Vitamin B-6 and Vitamin D. Let's have it!

0:17.0

Mull-a-light, get the good going. They say the best things come in small packages and in the next few minutes

0:29.4

you're going to get smarter with Curiosity Daily from Discovery. I'm Nate.

0:33.0

And I'm Callie. Thanks so much for joining us here today you guys. We are super

0:36.0

excited to have you.

0:37.0

Today you'll learn about AI that can detect wildfires from space.

0:41.2

Why going to bed late might not be so great on your mental health,

0:44.7

and a breakthrough in recycling. This will be interesting, let's find out. By many

0:50.0

measures the number of extreme wildfires across the globe is expected to explode

0:53.9

over the coming years and that could mean an increase of 14% by 2030 and it could be

0:59.3

up 50% by the middle of the century but the truth is it's already out of control.

1:04.3

Right as anyone in California constantly trying to dodge the smoke can attest.

1:08.6

Yeah absolutely the 2023 Canadian wildfire season was more or less unprecedented with around 9.5 million hectares affected by July.

1:17.6

South America also saw an uptick and the Australian

1:25.0

Bush fire season from 2019 to 2020 was catastrophic.

1:24.0

In fact, that season led Australian researchers to rethink how they detect wildfires.

1:29.0

Okay, and detection, at least as I understand it, is key to fighting the fires right if these

1:33.6

fires start and go undetected for too long it's almost impossible to control

1:37.6

them exactly imagine how essential smoke detectors have become in our homes

1:41.8

the slightest whiff of smoke and they alert you to the problem.

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