Time Flies, Human Microbiome, Smartphone Death Predictor
Today you’ll learn about how time flies as we age, how scientists are learning more and more about the microbiome within a human body, and the potential for a new phone app that can predict when you might die.
Curiosity Weekly · Warner Bros. Discovery
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Show Notes
Today you’ll learn about how time flies as we age, how scientists are learning more and more about the microbiome within a human body, and the potential for a new phone app that can predict when you might die.
Time Flies
- “Why Does 'Time Fly' As We Get Older?” by Christopher Dwyer
- “Why time flies so fast as we get older” BY ABIGAIL SAWYER
Human Microbiome
- “Scientists Have Made A Human Microbiome From Scratch” by Carl Zimmer
- “Design, construction, and in vivo augmentation of a complex gut microbiome” by Alice G. Cheng et al.
Smartphone Death Predictor
- “Your smartphone could be used to estimate your risk of dying” by Grace Wade
- “Smartphones could be used to predict a person's risk of dying, study finds” by Cathal Ryan
- “Population analysis of mortality risk: Predictive models from passive monitors using motion sensors for 100,000 UK Biobank participants” by Haowen Zhou, Ruoqing Zhu, Anita Ung, and Bruce Schatz
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