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Good morning, Brew Daily Show. I'm Neil Freiman. And I'm Toby Howell. Today, the wild backstory to the most expensive modern painting ever sold.
Then, what AI bubble? Nvidia crushed earnings once again. It's Thursday, November 20th. Let's ride.
The year is 3500. You walk into your home after a long day from work and a small furry animal scurries to greet you. It's your pet raccoon. It's not as crazy as it sounds.
Chapter 2: What did Nvidia's Q3 earnings reveal about the AI market?
A new study found that raccoons living near people in urban areas are showing early signs of domestication. reflecting many of the same evolutionary characteristics that led to the domestication of dogs over thousands of years. The physical appearance of city slicker raccoons is already changing.
The study found that raccoons living near people are developing snouts that are 3.5% shorter than raccoons living in rural areas. That shorter nose, combined with traits like white patches, floppier ears, and softer features are telltale signs of of domestication. Toby, dogs are never going to be replaced as a man's best friend, but raccoons are on their way to becoming man's best nemesis.
I am so for it.
Honestly, raccoons are sick as pets. This study is interesting, though, because domestication is often viewed as something that is forced upon animal species, but clearly it can happen without us influencing it really at all. But that's not to say humans have nothing to do with it. One of the leads in the study, Dr. Lesh, explained, trash is really the kickstarter.
Animals love our trash because it's an easy source of food. All they have to do is endure our presence, not be aggressive and they can chow down. But it also begs the question, if raccoons do eventually become our new pets, do we call the domesticated version something else? And I am voting yes. And I am voting for trash pandas.
I mean, if it was part of the reason they evolved to become pets, you got to name them a new species. So I'm advocating for trash pandas. And now a word from our sponsor, U.S. Bank. Hey, pet parents, this one's for you. Remember the last time your dog or cat or raccoon ate something they shouldn't have in the resulting panic trip to the vet?
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Chapter 3: How is Nvidia addressing concerns over an AI bubble?
This week saw Haiti qualify for the first time since 1974. their only World Cup, and Scotland will compete for the first time since 1998 after Braveheart-level heroics on Tuesday got them in. If you're wondering about the U.S., we qualified by default because we're hosting the tournament alongside Canada and Mexico.
Toby, we're still seven months away from the World Cup, and the tears are already flowing.
This was great story after great story after great story yesterday because, yeah, when Curacao qualified, everyone was looking at it at that. But then I was like, Scotland is actually an incredible story as well.
It just shows that, you know, the parody is getting better with the, you know, diaspora of all these national team players that go and play all around the world and come back and represent their countries. It also has to do with the fact that the World Cup is expanding their field. There's now
a 48 teams in the field, which gives these smaller nations a pathway and a chance that they never had before, which leads to these awesome stories. So yes, it is a bigger tournament at all, but who's mad that Curacao is making its first appearance ever. That is, it's just a tiny nation. It's pretty incredible that they can put together a team that can compete at this high of a level.
For my final number, when you kiss someone today, and I hope that's in the cards for you, you will be taking part in an evolutionary tradition that goes back tens of millions of years far before humans existed. According to a new paper in the journal Evolution and Human Behavior, researchers estimated when the first kiss happened more than 16.9 million years ago among a common ancestor,
of all the large apes, which includes humans. For context, humans began our timeline much more recently, around 200 to 300,000 years ago. You might be wondering, why would someone spend their time studying the history of kissing? And that would be a great question. Thing is, the old smooch is a topic that has perplexed scientists for a long time.
because not only is it difficult to define, but also it's not clear whether swapping saliva is a product of culture or evolution. In other words, does kissing help a species find food or reproduce? This finding produces evidence that yes, kissing does have some evolutionary basis, though it's still not yet clear why people or other animals kiss in the first place.
Because it's true, other animals like orangutans and bonobos do kiss each other, and scientists are still trying to figure out the reason. As lead researcher Dr. Matilda Brindle of Oxford said, we should be studying this behavior, not just dismissing it as silly because it has romantic connotations in humans.
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