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Learn about whether animals can predict earthquakes, why younger folks experience déjà vu more often, and how software that helped us reach the moon was literally woven by hand. Can Animals Really Sense an Earthquake Coming? A New Study Says Yes by Grant Currin Pratik Pawar. (2020, July 22). Animals Sense Earthquakes Before They Happen. Can They Help Us Predict Disasters? Discover Magazine. https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/animals-sense-earthquakes-before-they-happen-can-they-help-us-predict ‌Averett, N. (2020, July 31). Do Animals Really Anticipate Earthquakes? Sensors Hint They Do. Scientific American. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-animals-really-anticipate-earthquakes-sensors-hint-they-do/ ‌The sixth sense of animals. (2020). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-07/m-tss070320.php Wikelski, M., Mueller, U., Scocco, P., Catorci, A., Desinov, L. V., Belyaev, M. Y., Keim, D., Pohlmeier, W., Fechteler, G., & Martin Mai, P. (2020). Potential short‐term earthquake forecasting by farm animal monitoring. Ethology. https://doi.org/10.1111/eth.13078 Why Do Young People Experience More Déjà Vu? By Ashley Hamer Focal Onset Aware Seizures (simple partial seizures). (2017). Epilepsy Foundation. https://www.epilepsy.com/learn/types-seizures/focal-onset-aware-seizures-aka-simple-partial-seizures ‌Brown, A. S. (2003). A review of the deja vu experience. Psychological bulletin, 129(3), 394. https://doi.org/10.1037/0033-2909.129.3.394  Teale, J. C. (2015, March 3). What is Déjà Vu? Scientific American Blog Network. https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/frontiers-for-young-minds/what-is-d-233-j-224-vu/ The Apollo Missions Used Guidance Software That Was Literally Woven by Hand by Ashley Hamer Brock, D.C. (September 2017). Software as Hardware: Apollo’s Rope Memory. IEEE Spectrum: Technology, Engineering, and Science News. https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/space-age/software-as-hardware-apollos-rope-memory ‌John R. Garman Oral History. (2010). Nasa.Gov. https://historycollection.jsc.nasa.gov/JSCHistoryPortal/history/oral_histories/GarmanJR/GarmanJR_3-27-01.htm ‌McMillan, R. (2015, October 13). Her Code Got Humans on the Moon—And Invented Software Itself. WIRED. https://www.wired.com/2015/10/margaret-hamilton-nasa-apollo/ Subscribe to Curiosity Daily to learn something new every day with Ashley Hamer and Natalia Reagan (filling in for Cody Gough). You can also listen to our podcast as part of your Alexa Flash Briefing; Amazon smart speakers users, click/tap “enable” here: https://www.amazon.com/Curiosity-com-Curiosity-Daily-from/dp/B07CP17DJY See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information.