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Home > Curiosity Daily > Why Rainy Days Make You Sleepy, A Fix for AI’s Energy Appetite, and Solving Geology’s Mystery of the “Great Unconformity”


	Podcast:		Curiosity Daily
	Episode:		Why Rainy Days Make You Sleepy, A Fix for AI’s Energy Appetite, and Solving Geology’s Mystery of the “Great Unconformity”
	Category:		Society & Culture
	Duration:		00:12:22
	Publish Date:		2020-06-10 02:00:00
	Description:		Learn about why rainy days make you sleepy; why the “Great Unconformity” is one of the biggest mysteries in geology; and the problematic amount of energy it takes to power AI — along with a potential solution. Plus: how do you pronounce "Colorado," anyway? Why do rainy days make you sleepy? by Kelsey Donk Katherine Ellen Foley. (2016, May 29). Why does rain seem to make you sleepy? Quartz; Quartz. https://qz.com/672755/why-does-rain-seem-to-make-you-sleepy/ Kaye, K. (2009, July 11). Feel sleepy? Here’s why stormy weather makes you want to snooze. Sun-Sentinel.com. https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-2009-07-11-0907100282-story.html Verlo Corporate. (2018, May 2). Verlo Mattress. https://verlo.com/blog/why-does-rain-make-me-sleepy/ Castro, J. (2013, July 29). What Is Pink Noise? Livescience.com; Live Science. https://www.livescience.com/38464-what-is-pink-noise.html The "Great Unconformity" is one of the biggest mysteries in geology by Grant Currin Researchers dig into case of geologic amnesia. (2020). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-04/uoca-rdi042220.php ‌The Great Unconformity. (2020). The UCSB Current. https://www.news.ucsb.edu/2020/019892/great-unconformity Flowers, R. M., Macdonald, F. A., Siddoway, C. S., & Havranek, R. (2020). Diachronous development of Great Unconformities before Neoproterozoic Snowball Earth. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(19), 10172–10180. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1913131117 AI requires an enormous amount of energy, but we might have a fix by Grant Currin Artificial intelligence is energy-hungry -- new hardware could curb its appetite. (2020). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-05/pu-aii050520.php ‌Zhang, H.-T., Park, T. J., Zaluzhnyy, I. A., Wang, Q., Wadekar, S. N., Manna, S., Andrawis, R., Sprau, P. O., Sun, Y., Zhang, Z., Huang, C., Zhou, H., Zhang, Z., Narayanan, B., Srinivasan, G., Hua, N., Nazaretski, E., Huang, X., Yan, H., … Ramanathan, S. (2020). Perovskite neural trees. Nature Communications, 11(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16105-y Knight, W. (2020, January 21). AI Can Do Great Things—if It Doesn’t Burn the Planet. Wired; WIRED. https://www.wired.com/story/ai-great-things-burn-planet/ Subscribe to Curiosity Daily to learn something new every day with Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer. 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
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