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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.

We have clothing with speakers, clothing you can hear, but now there’s clothing that can hear you. 

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/

Alien abductions may actually have a scientific explanation - just not the UFO sighting kind you might think. 

'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 Sources

• 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
  • https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5013036/

Can we speed up evolution? Humans didn’t think so, but we inadvertently are. 

A New Database Reveals How Much Humans Are Messing With Evolution by Amit Katwala

• https://www.wired.com/story/database-humans-messing-with-evolution/

Uncovering the underlying patterns in contemporary evolution by McGill University Newsroom

• https://www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/channels/news/uncovering-underlying-patterns-contemporary-evolution-336562

Pollution Facts & Types of Pollution by Alina Bradford 

• https://www.livescience.com/22728-pollution-facts.html

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