Curiosity Daily Podcast: Dirty Disinfectant, Hot Iron Blobs, Infinite Versions of You

Episode show notes:

“Green” cleaning products may not be as clean as you think!

How do household cleaning products affect the environment? by Alexandra Franklin-Cheung

• https://www.sciencefocus.com/planet-earth/how-do-household-cleaning-products-affect-the-environment/

Household Cleaning Products Market by Precedence Research

• https://www.precedenceresearch.com/household-cleaning-products-market

Are your cleaning products really green? Here’s how to tell. by Shaena Montanari

• https://www.popsci.com/story/environment/sustainable-cleaning-products/

EPA.gov

• Identifying Greener Cleaning Products
• https://www.epa.gov/greenerproducts/identifying-greener-cleaning-products
• EPA Safer Choice-Certified Product Search

• https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice/products

• EPA DfE-Certified Product Search
• https://www.epa.gov/pesticide-labels/dfe-certified-disinfectants
• The Effects: Dead Zones and Harmful Algal Blooms
• https://www.epa.gov/nutrientpollution/effects-dead-zones-and-harmful-algal-blooms

How to find ‘green’ cleaning products that get the job done by Laura Daily

• https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/home/choosing-green-cleaning-products/2021/08/23/e7a20ba4-fea2-11eb-ba7e-2cf966e88e93_story.html

Microplastics are everywhere — but are they harmful? By XiaoZhi Lim

• https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01143-3

Cosmetic Fragrance and Flavor Ingredient Right to Know Act of 2021 by Breast Cancer Prevention Partners

• https://www.bcpp.org/resource/cosmetic-fragrance-and-flavor-ingredient-right-to-know-act-of-2021/

Earth’s magnetic north is under the influence… of some hot iron blobs.

The Magnetic North Pole Is Rapidly Moving Because of Some Blobs by Jennifer Leman

• https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/a32496561/why-magnetic-north-pole-moving/

The north magnetic pole is leaving Canada for Siberia. These 'blobs' may be the reason why. by Laura Geggel

• https://www.livescience.com/magnetic-north-pole-to-siberia.html

Fact check: A compass is oriented to the Earth's magnetic field lines, doesn't prove flat earth by Kate S. Petersen

• https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2022/02/22/fact-check-compass-works-globe-because-magnetic-field-lines/6848272001/

Strong planetary magnetic fields like Earth's may protect oceans from stellar storms by Royal Astronomical Society

• https://phys.org/news/2019-03-strong-planetary-magnetic-fields-earth.html

Origins of Earth’s magnetic field remain a mystery by Jennifer Chu

• https://news.mit.edu/2020/origins-earth-magnetic-field-mystery-0408

When north goes south: Is Earth's magnetic field flipping? by Chris Holt

• https://astronomy.com/news/2021/09/when-north-goes-south-is-earths-magnetic-field-flipping

Flip Flop: Why Variations in Earth's Magnetic Field Aren't Causing Today's Climate Change By Alan Buis, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory

• https://climate.nasa.gov/ask-nasa-climate/3104/flip-flop-why-variations-in-earths-magnetic-field-arent-causing-todays-climate-change

The multiverse isn’t just in the Marvel movies. Physicists think it may be real.

Parallel Worlds Exist and Interact With Our World, Say Physicists by Bryan Nelson

• https://www.treehugger.com/parallel-worlds-exist-and-interact-with-our-world-say-4863488

Do parallel universes exist? We might live in a multiverse. by Vicky Stein and Daisy Dobrijevic

• https://www.space.com/32728-parallel-universes.html

The Real Science of the Multiverse by Jess Romeo

• https://daily.jstor.org/the-real-science-of-the-multiverse/

What is multiverse theory by Paul Sutter

• https://www.livescience.com/multiverse

Are Many Worlds and the Multiverse the Same Idea? by Sean Carroll

• https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/are-many-worlds-and-the-multiverse-the-same-idea

The weirdest idea in quantum physics is catching on: There may be endless worlds with countless versions of you. By Corey S. Powell

• https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/weirdest-idea-quantum-physics-catching-there-may-be-endless-worlds-ncna1068706

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