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.

Curiosity Weekly · Warner Bros. Discovery

July 6, 202213m 54s

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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

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