Curiosity Daily Podcast: How Beauty Sleep Boosts Beauty, Plants Talk to Worms for Self-Defense, and Fighting Deepfakes with Heart Rate
Learn about why “beauty sleep” has real benefits for your skin; how plants learn the chemical language of pests to use for self-defense; and a new algorithm that’s fighting deepfakes by looking at heart rates.
February 19, 2020
Episode Show Notes:
How Beauty Sleep Boosts Beauty by Mae Rice
- Kerri-Ann Jennings, MS, RD. (2016, September 9). Collagen - What Is It and What Is It Good For? Healthline; Healthline Media. https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/collagen
- Beauty sleep could be real, say body clock biologists. (2020). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-01/uom-bsc011520.php
- Chang, J., Garva, R., Pickard, A., Yeung, C.-Y. C., Mallikarjun, V., Swift, J., Holmes, D. F., Calverley, B., Lu, Y., Adamson, A., Raymond-Hayling, H., Jensen, O., Shearer, T., Meng, Q. J., & Kadler, K. E. (2020). Circadian control of the secretory pathway maintains collagen homeostasis. Nature Cell Biology, 22(1), 74–86. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41556-019-0441-z
Plants Talk to Worms for Self-Defense by Grant Currin
- Plants speak ‘roundworm’ for self-defense, study shows | Cornell Chronicle. (2020). Cornell Chronicle. http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2020/01/plants-speak-roundworm-self-defense-study-shows
- Manohar, M., Tenjo-Castano, F., Chen, S., Zhang, Y. K., Kumari, A., Williamson, V. M., Wang, X., Klessig, D. F., & Schroeder, F. C. (2020). Plant metabolism of nematode pheromones mediates plant-nematode interactions. Nature Communications, 11(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-14104-2
Fighting Deepfakes with Heart Rate by Grant Currin
- New research uses physiological cues to distinguish computer-generated faces from human ones. (2020). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-01/ssfo-nru012120.php
- Bonomi, M., & Boato, G. (2020). Digital human face detection in video sequences via a physiological signal analysis. Journal of Electronic Imaging, 29(01), 1. https://doi.org/10.1117/1.jei.29.1.013009
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