Today, you’ll learn about how whales could be carrying on conversations from over 60 miles away, the struggles of foster moms in the 1600s, and why your blood pressure reading might be way off.

Whale Talk

• “Whales May Be Communicating Across Vast Distances.” by Joanna Thompson. 2024.
• “Alaska’s Population of Bowhead Whales Rebounding.” by Riley Woodford. 2003.
• “Orientation by means of long range acoustic signaling in baleen whales.” by Roger Payne & Douglas Webb. 1971.
• “Synchronization of bowhead whales.” by Evgeny A. Podolskiy, et al. 2024.

Foster Care History

• “Early foster care gave poor women power, 17th-century records reveal.” EurekAlert! 2024.
• “History of Foster Care in the United States.” NEPA. N.D.

Blood Pressure Test

• “Blood pressure may read falsely high if the arm isn’t positioned properly.” by Aimee Cunningham. 2024.
• “Arm Position and Blood Pressure Readings.” by Hairong Liu, MHS. 2024.
• “Estimated Hypertension Prevalence, Treatment, and Control Among U.S. Adults.” MillionHearts. 2023.

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Today, you’ll learn about the entire neuron-for-neuron model of a fly brain, jellyfish that can merge together seamlessly, and how talking to our dogs in that way-too-cutesy voice might actually have a purpose.

Fly Brains

• “Researchers simulate an entire fly brain on a laptop. Is a human brain next?” by Robert Sanders. 2024.
• “A Drosophila computational brain model reveals sensorimotor processing.” by Philip K. Shiu, et al. 2024.

Comb Jelly Fusion

• “Injured comb jellies can fuse into a single organism.” by Jacek Krywko. 2024.
• “Rapid physiological integration of fused ctenophores.” by Kei Jokura, et al. 2024.

Dog Voice

• “Our cutesy cringey dog voices could be practical, after all.” SciMex. 2024.
• “Dog-human vocal interactions match dogs’ sensory-motor tuning.” by Eloise C. Deaux, et al. 2024.

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Today, you’ll learn about the cause of static electricity, how a new headband could help you stop a stroke before it happens, and why the ground in Siberia is exploding.

Static Electricity

• “We Finally Know What Creates Static Electricity, After Thousands of Years.” by Michelle Starr. 2024.
• “Why petting your cat leads to static electricity.” Northwestern. 2024.

Stroke Headband

• “Laser headband non-invasively IDs stroke risk in real time.” by Bronwyn Thompson. 2024.
• “Correlating stroke risk with non-invasive cerebrovascular perfusion dynamics using a portable speckle contrast optical spectroscopy laser device.” by Yu Xi Huang, et al. 2024.

Exploding Craters

• “Chemists Finally Unravel the Mystery of Siberia’s Explosive Craters.” by Adam Kovac. 2024.
• “Everything Is Extremely Normal and Totally Fine.” by Brian Kahn. 2020.
• “Osmosis Drives Explosions and Methane Release in Siberian Permafrost.” by Ana M. O. Morgado, et al. 2024.
• “The Mystery of Siberia’s Exploding Craters, Explained.” YouTube, Distilled. 2023.

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