Curiosity Daily Podcast: The Universe Might Expand Unevenly, Using a Camera to De-Clutter Your House, and 3 Hominins Lived in the Same Place and Time
Learn about a surprising tip for de-cluttering your house; 3 extinct relatives of humans that lived in the same place and time; and why the possibility that the universe might not be expanding at the same rate everywhere is a huge deal.
May 12, 2020
Episode Show Notes:
What's The First Step for De-Cluttering Your House? by Reuben Westmas
- The Ohio State University. (2017, June 26). Scientists Find Clever Way to Help You De-Clutter Your Home; The Ohio State University. https://news.osu.edu/scientists-find-clever-way-to-help-you-de-clutter-your-home/
- Taking Photos of Experiences Boosts Visual Memory, Impairs Auditory Memory. (2017). Association for Psychological Science - APS. https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/releases/taking-photos-of-experiences-boosts-visual-memory-impairs-auditory-memory.html#.WVKmQBPyufW
Three different hominins lived in the same place and time by Grant Currin
- In South Africa, three hominins, including earliest Homo erectus, lived during same period. (2020). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-04/aaft-isa033020.php
- Herries, A. I. R., Martin, J. M., Leece, A. B., Adams, J. W., Boschian, G., Joannes-Boyau, R., Edwards, T. R., Mallett, T., Massey, J., Murszewski, A., Neubauer, S., Pickering, R., Strait, D. S., Armstrong, B. J., Baker, S., Caruana, M. V., Denham, T., Hellstrom, J., Moggi-Cecchi, J., … Menter, C. (2020). Contemporaneity of Australopithecus, Paranthropus, and early Homo erectus in South Africa. Science, 368(6486), eaaw7293. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaw7293
The universe might not be expanding at the same rate everywhere by Grant Currin
- Doubts about basic assumption for the universe. (2020). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-04/uob-dab040820.php
- Migkas, K., Schellenberger, G., Reiprich, T. H., Pacaud, F., Ramos-Ceja, M. E., & Lovisari, L. (2020). Probing cosmic isotropy with a new X-ray galaxy cluster sample through the LX–T scaling relation. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 636, A15. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936602
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