All The Ghosts You Will Be

2025-07-16

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MOX NOX. Pre-order the Death Clock here: http://www.InqFactory.com/DeathClock

Special thanks to @CalebMarting for his tireless work on the prototypes. Our entire team at the Curiosity Box and Inq Factory is incredible -- it's a gift to be able to make the world curiouser with you all!

"Curiouser" is a very curious word.

LINKS TO LEARN MORE:

flour particle size: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/335277332_Influence_of_milling_whole_wheat_grains_and_particle_size_on_thermo-mechanical_properties_of_flour_using_Mixolab

solar corona:

https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14865

eclipse footage: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14572/

KUSHIM:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kushim_(Uruk_period)

https://indroyc.com/2024/02/23/kushims-story-the-first-name-in-history/

GAL-SAL:

https://isac-idb.uchicago.edu/id/b6ace1f1-9701-4dc5-b366-8c15c7da00ca

https://www.instagram.com/p/DLlP1d6zlPR/?img_index=2

Gudea:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gudea

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statues_of_Gudea

https://www.sumerianshakespeare.com/face-of-gudea

Other early human forms:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urfa_Man

History of human figure in art: https://jesygilkesuca.home.blog/2020/09/14/history-and-depictions-of-the-human-figure/

3D interactive DNA model: https://www.labxchange.org/library/items/lb:LabXchange:5c1562b9:lx_simulation:1

How many genetic ancestors do you have? https://gcbias.org/2013/11/11/how-does-your-number-of-genetic-ancestors-grow-back-over-time/

fossilization video: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wie_entstehen_Fossilien_(CC_by_4.0)_redub_EO.webm

How to become a fossil:

https://www.newscientist.com/lastword/mg24632832-100-wheres-the-best-place-to-be-buried-to-preserve-your-body-as-a-fossil/

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20180215-how-does-fossilisation-happen

where to be buried to become a fossil Earth images: https://visibleearth.nasa.gov/

Big Bertha: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bertha_(lunar_sample)

red giant sun: https://science.nasa.gov/resource/life-and-death-of-a-planetary-system/

Interactive voyager viewer: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/voyager/

Wifi signal in house: https://jasmcole.com/2014/07/12/wifi-strife/

How we’ve found partners over time https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1908630116

Screen time: https://explodingtopics.com/blog/screen-time-stats

Mobile phones vs toothbrushes: https://bcp-advisors.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Cell-Phones-and-Toothbrushes.pdf

Old music outselling new: https://web.archive.org/web/20160222071723/http://www.chartattack.com/news/2016/01/20/old-music-is-outselling-new-music-for-the-first-time-in-history/

“Soy Bomb” incident: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OeNKBq63iM

Steve Fossett: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Fossett

Gabby Petito: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Gabby_Petito

Unknown soldier:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomb_of_the_Unknown_Soldier_(Arlington_National_Cemetery)

https://www.defense.gov/Multimedia/Photos/igphoto/2002889128/

Conrad Roy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Conrad_Roy

Frederick Douglass: https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/frederick-douglass-and-the-power-of-photography.htm

Sojourner Truth: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/301989

Wallace Line:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace_Line

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Map_of_Sunda_and_Sahul.svg

Homo Erectus image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Homo_erectus,_The_Natural_History_Museum_Vienna,_20210730_1228_1282.jpg

Roman aqueduct image: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_aqueduct#/media/File:Pont_du_Gard_BLS.jpg

Chicago filmed from a dirigible: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chicago_Photographed_from_Ray_Knabenshue%27s_Dirigible_Air_Ship.webm

World pop density map: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:World_Population_Density_Map_2020.png

books:

I Am A Strange Loop - Douglas_Hofstadter

A Short History of Nearly Everything Book - Bill Bryson

Reasons and Persons - Derek Parfit

Documentality - Maurizio Ferraris

Amusing Ourselves To Death - Neil Postman

Everything Bad Is Good For You - Steven Johnson

Soul Dust - Nicholas Humphrey

The View From Nowhere - Thomas Nagel

ALL MUSIC BY @jakechudnow

You can pick up Jake Chudnow’s Vsauce music on vinyl here: https://inqfactory.com/pages/vinyl

SONGS:

00:00 - 00:01 - J Wilde

00:03 - 00:26 - Food

00:20 - 01:14 - Rain, Dreams

01:12 - 01:22 - Moon Men (Instrumental)

01:22 - 01:33 - J Wilde

01:26 - 02:27 - What My Nervous Stomach Sounds Like

02:01 - 02:38 - For Leah

02:39 - 03:39 - Moon Men (Instrumental)

03:40 - 04:56 - Imaginary Sun

04:49 - 05:50 - It’s Good To Be D

05:50 - 06:37 - Thunder

06:37 - 08:03 - For You

08:11 - 10:08 - Rain, Dreams

10:02 - 11:10 - Hydrogen

11:34 - 11:50 - Prelude To Shona

11:50 - 13:02 - For Leah

13:09 - 13:56 - Shallow Anne

13:41 - 13:56 - Monkey Morning

13:56 - 16:10 - J Wilde

15:56 - 19:04 - Olive

19:06 - 21:54 - J Wilde

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