Curiosity Daily Podcast: Fabric with Ears, Dreaming of E.T., Fast Evolution

Episode show notes:

We have clothing with speakers, clothing you can hear, but now there’s clothing that can hear you.

This fabric can hear your heartbeat by Carolyn Wilke

• https://www.sciencenews.org/article/fabric-hear-heartbeat-fiber-vibration-voltage-sound-material

A fabric that “hears” your heart's sounds by Jennifer Chu

• https://news.mit.edu/2022/fabric-acoustic-microphone-0316

Researchers Create a Fabric That Can ‘Hear’ Your Heartbeat by Margaret Osborne

• https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/researchers-create-a-fabric-that-can-hear-your-heartbeat-180979753/

Hear and There: Sounds from Everywhere! by Daniel Henning, Edin Sabic, and Michael C. Hout

• https://kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frym.2018.00063

Heart Disease Facts by The CDC

• https://www.cdc.gov/heartdisease/facts.htm

Electrical and Electromagnetic Fundamentals by Joseph J. Carr

• https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/static-electricity

Smart Fibers Could Turn Army Uniforms Into Wearable Computers by Kyle Mizokami

• https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/research/a36732071/army-uniform-fibers-create-wearable-computers/

Alien abductions may actually have a scientific explanation - just not the UFO sighting kind you might think.

'Alien abduction' stories may come from lucid dreaming, study hints by Mindy Weisberger

• https://www.livescience.com/lucid-dreaming-ufo-alien-abductions.html

COULD SUSPECTED ALIEN ABDUCTIONS JUST BE … LUCID DREAMING? by Elizabeth Rayne

• https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/could-suspected-alien-abductions-be-lucid-dreaming

How Betty and Barney Hill's Alien Abduction Story Defined the Genre by Linda Lacina

• https://www.history.com/news/first-alien-abduction-account-barney-betty-hill

Is it normal to believe you have been abducted by aliens? by Dr. Ema Sullivan-Bissett

• https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/perspective/abducted-by-aliens.aspx

Sleep Paralysis Sources

• Sleep paralysis and folklore by Ann M. Cox
• https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5167075/
• Sleep Paralysis in Brazilian Folklore and Other Cultures: A Brief Review by José F. R. de Sá and Sérgio A. Mota-Rolim
• https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5013036/
  
  

Can we speed up evolution? Humans didn’t think so, but we inadvertently are.

A New Database Reveals How Much Humans Are Messing With Evolution by Amit Katwala

• https://www.wired.com/story/database-humans-messing-with-evolution/

Uncovering the underlying patterns in contemporary evolution by McGill University Newsroom

• https://www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/channels/news/uncovering-underlying-patterns-contemporary-evolution-336562

Pollution Facts & Types of Pollution by Alina Bradford

• https://www.livescience.com/22728-pollution-facts.html

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