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Today, you’ll learn about how researchers at MIT created an incredible new type of fabric that can save thousands of lives, how sleep scientists are explaining alien abductions, and how evolution is being sped up by human beings, causing ripple effects all over the place.

Fabric with Ears 

• This fabric can hear your heartbeat by Carolyn Wilke
  • https://www.sciencenews.org/article/fabric-hear-heartbeat-fiber-vibration-voltage-sound-material
• A fabric that “hears” your heart's sounds by Jennifer Chu
  • https://news.mit.edu/2022/fabric-acoustic-microphone-0316
• Researchers Create a Fabric That Can ‘Hear’ Your Heartbeat by Margaret Osborne
  • https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/researchers-create-a-fabric-that-can-hear-your-heartbeat-180979753/
• Hear and There: Sounds from Everywhere! by Daniel Henning, Edin Sabic, and Michael C. Hout
  • https://kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frym.2018.00063
• Heart Disease Facts by The CDC
  • https://www.cdc.gov/heartdisease/facts.htm
• Electrical and Electromagnetic Fundamentals by Joseph J. Carr
  • https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/static-electricity
• Smart Fibers Could Turn Army Uniforms Into Wearable Computers by Kyle Mizokami
  • https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/research/a36732071/army-uniform-fibers-create-wearable-computers/

Dreaming of E.T.

• 'Alien abduction' stories may come from lucid dreaming, study hints by Mindy Weisberger
  • https://www.livescience.com/lucid-dreaming-ufo-alien-abductions.html
• COULD SUSPECTED ALIEN ABDUCTIONS JUST BE … LUCID DREAMING? by Elizabeth Rayne
  • https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/could-suspected-alien-abductions-be-lucid-dreaming
• How Betty and Barney Hill's Alien Abduction Story Defined the Genre by Linda Lacina
  • https://www.history.com/news/first-alien-abduction-account-barney-betty-hill
• Is it normal to believe you have been abducted by aliens? by Dr. Ema Sullivan-Bissett
  • https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/perspective/abducted-by-aliens.aspx
• Sleep paralysis and folklore by Ann M. Cox
  • https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5167075/
• Sleep Paralysis in Brazilian Folklore and Other Cultures: A Brief Review by José F. R. de Sá and Sérgio A. Mota-Rolim

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