Orangu-slang, Easing Car Queasing, Kicked Across Space

Today, you’ll learn about how orangutans use slang a lot like we do, what causes and can alleviate everyday motion sickness, and how one black hole kicked another across the galaxy. Orangutans are dope. “Orangutans use Slang to Show off Their “Coolness”, Study Suggests" by Nicola Davis https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/mar/21/orangutans-use-slang-to-show-off-their-coolness-study-suggests “Orangutan Squeaks Reveal Language Evolution Says Study" by Victoria Gill https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-38907681 “What did Language Grow From? Ape Hands, Mouths, or Both? – Kristen Marie Gillespie-Lynch, Emily Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, Heidi Lyn, and Patricia Greenfield https://kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frym.2019.00061 “Apes Communicate, Humans Have Language" by Max Planck Institute https://www.cbs.mpg.de/research-topics/language-interview A solution beyond not looking at your phone. “How To Fight Motion Sickness — And The Scientific Reason Some People Suffer More” By Saima Rajasingam https://www.inverse.com/mind-body/motion-sickness-treatment “A study of cybersickness and sensory conflict theory using a motion-coupled virtual reality system” by Adrian K.T. Ng, Leith K.Y. Chan, Henry Y.K. Lau https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0141938218300301 Soccer but with black holes. “Gravitational waves gave a new black hole a high-speed ‘kick’” By Emily Conover https://www.sciencenews.org/article/black-hole-gravitational-waves-kick-ligo-merger-spacetime “A black hole formed by a lopsided merger may have gone rogue” By Robert Lea https://www.space.com/black-hole-escaping-galaxy-from-collision “Ripples in spacetime: Science's 2016 Breakthrough of the Year” by Adrian Cho https://www.science.org/content/article/ripples-spacetime-sciences-2016-breakthrough-year “How Scientists Captured the First Image of a Black Hole” by Ota Lutz https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/news/2019/4/19/how-scientists-captured-the-first-image-of-a-black-hole/ “What is an Interferometer?” by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/page/what-is-interferometer Follow Curiosity Daily on your favorite podcast app to get smarter with Calli and Nate — for free! Still curious? Get exclusive science shows, nature documentaries, and more real-life entertainment on discovery+! Go to https://discoveryplus.com/curiosity to start your 7-day free trial. discovery+ is currently only available for US subscribers. Find episode transcripts here: https://curiosity-daily-4e53644e.simplecast.com/episodes/orangu-slang-easing-car-queasing-kicked-across-space