Curiosity Daily Podcast: Robot Workers May Change Prejudices, Hormonal Changes in Dads-to-Be, and How Salamanders Regrow Their Limbs
Learn about why a rising robot workforce may make humans less prejudiced towards other people; how studying a salamander that can regrow lost limbs could help us figure out how to help humans heal faster; and hormonal changes that happen in dads-to-be.
March 19, 2020
Episode Show Notes:
A rising robot workforce may make humans less prejudiced by Kelsey Donk
- Conrad, J. (2020). Opinion: Robot co-workers could reduce prejudice among humans. Los Angeles Times; Los Angeles Times. https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-01-01/robots-workers-racial-prejudice-psychology
- Jackson, J. C., Castelo, N., & Gray, K. (2020). Could a rising robot workforce make humans less prejudiced? American Psychologist. https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2020-00794-001
Can knowing how salamanders regrow their limbs help humans do the same? by Andrea Michelson
- Regeneration: The amphibian’s opus. (2020, January). Knowable Magazine | Annual Reviews. https://www.knowablemagazine.org/article/living-world/2020/axolotl-limb-regeneration
- Elizabeth Preston, Quanta Magazine. (2018, July 7). Salamander’s Genome Guards Secrets of Limb Regrowth. Scientific American. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/salamander-rsquo-s-genome-guards-secrets-of-limb-regrowth/
- Currie, J. D., Kawaguchi, A., Traspas, R. M., Schuez, M., Chara, O., & Tanaka, E. M. (2016). Live Imaging of Axolotl Digit Regeneration Reveals Spatiotemporal Choreography of Diverse Connective Tissue Progenitor Pools. Developmental Cell, 39(4), 411–423. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.devcel.2016.10.013
- Smith, J. J., Timoshevskaya, N., Timoshevskiy, V. A., Keinath, M. C., Hardy, D., & Voss, S. R. (2019). A chromosome-scale assembly of the axolotl genome. Genome Research, 29(2), 317–324. https://doi.org/10.1101/gr.241901.118
- Nowoshilow, S., Schloissnig, S., Fei, J.-F., Dahl, A., Pang, A. W. C., Pippel, M., Winkler, S., Hastie, A. R., Young, G., Roscito, J. G., Falcon, F., Knapp, D., Powell, S., Cruz, A., Cao, H., Habermann, B., Hiller, M., Tanaka, E. M., & Myers, E. W. (2018). The axolotl genome and the evolution of key tissue formation regulators. Nature, 554(7690), 50–55. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature25458
- Gerber, T., Murawala, P., Knapp, D., Masselink, W., Schuez, M., Hermann, S., Gac-Santel, M., Nowoshilow, S., Kageyama, J., Khattak, S., Currie, J. D., Camp, J. G., Tanaka, E. M., & Treutlein, B. (2018). Single-cell analysis uncovers convergence of cell identities during axolotl limb regeneration. Science, 362(6413), eaaq0681. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaq0681
Dads-to-Be Experience Hormonal Changes, Too by Ashley Hamer
- Hamer, A. Dads-to-Be Experience Hormonal Changes, Too. (2017). Curiosity.com. https://curiosity.com/topics/dads-to-be-experience-hormonal-changes-too-curiosity
- Edelstein, R. S., Chopik, W. J., Saxbe, D. E., Wardecker, B. M., Moors, A. C., & LaBelle, O. P. (2016). Prospective and dyadic associations between expectant parents’ prenatal hormone changes and postpartum parenting outcomes. Developmental Psychobiology, 59(1), 77–90. https://doi.org/10.1002/dev.21469
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