Curiosity Daily Podcast: Death to Skeeters, Swapping Saliva, Messing with Lightspeed

Episode show notes:

Hate mosquitos? These modified mosquitoes do, too.

Millions of genetically modified mosquitoes may soon be buzzing in Florida and California. Here's why. by Ryan W. Miller

• https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/03/08/genetically-modified-mosquitoes-florida-california/9424548002/

2 Billion Genetically Modified Mosquitoes Cleared for Release in California and Florida by Ed Cara

• https://gizmodo.com/2-billion-genetically-modified-mosquitoes-cleared-for-r-1848630797

California's first lab-grown mosquitoes may take flight—stirring controversy by Lisa M. Krieger

• https://phys.org/news/2022-03-california-lab-grown-mosquitoes-flightstirring-controversy.html

Malaria’s Impact Worldwide by The CDC

• https://www.cdc.gov/malaria/malaria_worldwide/impact.html

Mosquitoes and Disease by Illinois Department of Public Health

• http://www.idph.state.il.us/envhealth/pcmosquitoes.htm

Want a baby to trust you? Try sharing some spit.

Babies may use saliva sharing to figure out relationships by Erin Garcia de Jesús

• https://www.sciencenews.org/article/baby-saliva-spit-sharing-relationships-kiss-food

Kids attend to saliva sharing to infer social relationships by Christine Fawcett

• https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abn5157

Babies can tell who has close relationships based on one clue: saliva by Anne Trafton

• https://news.mit.edu/2022/babies-relationships-saliva-0120

When babies see people swap spit, they know what’s what by Juan Siliezar

• https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abn5157
  
  

Let’s keep lightspeed where it’s at. Just trust us here.

What would happen if the speed of light was much slower? by Ashley P. Taylor

• https://www.livescience.com/what-if-speed-of-light-slowed-down

What Is Relativity? by Michael Schirber

• https://www.livescience.com/32216-what-is-relativity.html

What time is it? That depends on how fast you're traveling. by American Museum of Natural History

• https://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/einstein/time/time-machines

'A Slower Speed of Light' turns the strangeness of near-light speed travel into a game by Janus Kopfstein

• https://www.theverge.com/gaming/2012/11/6/3608218/a-slower-speed-of-light

How Fast is the Speed of Light by LTP NASA

• https://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/Numbers/Math/Mathematical_Thinking/how_fast_is_the_speed.htm#:~:text=Light%20travels%20at%20a%20constant,7.5%20times%20in%20one%20second.

How Fast is the World’s Fastest Human? By Kara Rogers

• https://www.britannica.com/story/how-fast-is-the-worlds-fastest-human#:~:text=Speed%20is%20the%20rate%20at,was%2010.44%20meters%20per%20second.

The Doppler Effect by the Physics Classroom

• https://www.physicsclassroom.com/class/waves/Lesson-3/The-Doppler-Effect

The Most Extreme Human Spaceflight Records by Mike Wall

• https://www.space.com/11337-human-spaceflight-records-50th-anniversary.html

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