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Biden Permanently Bans Offshore Drilling in 625 Million Acres of Ocean, Making a Trump Reversal Difficult; Was Siri Listening Too Much? `The side effects are dancing`: How One Company Uses Music to Treat Dementia; Rats Learn to Drive Miniature Cars and Seem to Enjoy It. Aired 4-4:10a ET
Aired January 08, 2025 - 04:00 ET
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COY WIRE, CNN 10 ANCHOR: What`s up, rock stars? I`m Coy Wire. This is CNN 10. And today it is your CNN 10 because it`s #YourWordWednesday. Remember
to keep an ear out to see if your vocab word helped us write today`s show.
We start right now. First with politics and a major move by the Biden administration. With fewer than two weeks left in office, President Joe
Biden announced an executive action that permanently bans future offshore oil and gas leasing in parts of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. That ban
means huge areas of ocean off limits to oil companies from leasing for new drilling.
Think the entire East coast, the Eastern Gulf of Mexico, the coasts of Washington, Oregon, and California, and portions of Alaska`s northern
Bering Sea. To implement the ban, the Biden administration invoked the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, a law that gives presidents broad
authority to limit federal waters from future oil and gas leasing. The law, however, does not give presidents explicit authority to revoke bans and
place federal waters back into development.
So future presidents like President-elect Donald Trump would have to get Congress to change the law first before the ban could be reversed.
President Biden touted the bipartisan support for protecting coastlines from offshore drilling. But critics in the oil industry say the ban would
severely limit its potential for future oil and gas exploration in new areas, hurting the industry`s long-term ability to survive. Energy analysts
told CNN the ban won`t make much of a difference in U.S. oil production, which has only expanded in recent years.
All right, it`s something we joke about all the time when we say our phones are listening to us, right? But could it be true? Apple has agreed to pay
$95 million in cash to settle a proposed class action lawsuit. Mobile device owners claim that Apple routinely recorded their private
conversations after they voice activated Siri by accident, and the conversations were disclosed to third parties like advertisers.
In agreeing to settle, Apple denied wrongdoing or violating users` privacy. It`s an important concern as technology takes bigger roles in our everyday
lives.
One plaintiff in the class action suit said, he got ads for a brand name surgical treatment having what he thought was a private conversation with
his doctor. The number of people involved in the class action suit is estimated in the tens of millions. So folks might end up getting about $20
per Siri-enabled device like an iPhone or Apple Watch.
Pop quiz hot shot. What band can claim to be the only one to have performed on all seven continents? The Beatles, Metallica, Radiohead, or Coldplay?
Nothing else matters if you said Metallica, ride that lightning. If you didn`t, sad but true, Metallica rocked on all seven continents, yes,
including Antarctica, all in the same year.
Fade to black. Now to a story about a company that`s looking to use music as medicine to treat people with health challenges. We all know music has
that ability to transform our mindset, right? Athletes know that when that one song hits, you feel like you could run through a brick wall.
Ultimately, music can affect our bodies too. Well, a company in Toronto called LUCID is using technology to find out how some good vibrations might
actually be able to heal us. CNN`s Clare Duffy shows us how they`re combining facial mapping software, artificial intelligence, and music to
create a treatment for patients.
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CLARE DUFFY, CNN BUSINESS WRITER (voice-over): Today, I`m participating in a scientific test, one that will measure my brain waves, my heart rate, and
my cortisol levels, the hormone released in the body in response to stress.
DR. FRANK RUSSO, LUCID, CHIEF SCIENCE OFFICER: 64 electrodes that are being fitted to your cap. Yosef is applying gel. That`s going to help with the
conductivity.
DUFFY (on camera): Feels weird.
RUSSO: Oh, the cool gel is a weird feeling.
DUFFY (voice-over): It`s all to find out how my body reacts to music. Toronto-based company LUCID is conducting the research as they try to turn
music into medicine to treat anxiety and other mental health conditions.
(On camera): I think we all sort of have this intuition that music has really powerful influence over our emotions, and you`re a trained musician.
Did you know when you started this journey that there was also science to support that?
AARON LABBE, LUCID, CO-FOUNDER, CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER: I did not. If I`m being honest with you, I just knew how it felt, right? Like, as a musician,
it`s all about the feeling.
DUFFY (voice-over): Aaron Labbe, the company`s co-founder, says his own mental health struggles led him to starting the company.
LABBE: A big part of the mental health, like, healing journey is starting to question, like, why do I feel this way? Why am I experiencing these
symptoms? And then for me, that led to, like, why is music helping?
DUFFY (voice-over): So they began developing therapeutic products that combined artificial intelligence, facial recognition, and music.
LABBE: There`s so many different factors and data points, and everyone`s reaction is different. I have friends who, you know, make almost, like, a
disgusted-looking face when the right music is on, like, stank face phenomenon.
DUFFY: That`s exactly what I thought was a stank face.
LABBE: Yeah, and then there`s -- like, people who just, like, you know, like, laugh and sing and all these other things.
DUFFY (voice-over): Their current product, Resonance Rx, uses facial mapping software to determine how patients are responding to recognizable
songs, and then uses AI to develop what they hope will be the perfect individualized playlist to help relieve agitation and stress among people
dealing with memory loss disorders.
(On camera): How did you decide on Alzheimer`s and dementia patients as the first population that you were focused on serving?
ZACH MCMAHON, LUCID, CO-FOUNDER, CEO: You go to hospice, or you go to long- term care, or you go to retirement communities, and they`d have musicians come in, right? They`d have music therapists on staff, like, everybody
loved music. You know, we`re looking at a modality that`s generally safe, right? The side effects are dancing, right? And so we had to look in our
study and go, OK, how could we control for whether or not people are falling when they`re dancing?
DUFFY: Oh, and you`re working with elderly populations.
MCMAHON: Yeah, I mean, we joke about it, and we laugh, and everybody else laughs, so it`s, like, it`s still -- it`s still a risk.
DUFFY: Yeah.
MCMAHON: But that`s kind of it.
DUFFY (voice-over): The treatment is only available to be administered by licensed mental health clinicians. But based on the success of Resonance,
LUCID is now exploring how to apply AI and music to improve mental health care for other populations, like young adults.
RUSSO: We`re seeing the signature of a relaxation response in the heart. We`re also seeing it in some of the brain waves that you see below.
DUFFY: OK.
RUSSO: We`re getting slower waves than what --
DUFFY: I see.
RUSSO: -- what we saw at the beginning.
LABBE: Replacement of medication is not something that we`re necessarily advocating for. Instead of us just saying, well, here`s your meds, go home,
now we`ve got this experiential thing that is helping them, right, while they`re also getting the other elements of their care.
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WIRE: Today`s story getting a 10 out of 10, rats that not only can drive, they prefer to drive, as they go and chase that cheese. A study at the
University of Richmond is finding that these rodents during lab studies aren`t corybantic behind the wheel. They`re actually really good at
drivers. Our Henry Zeris gives us a squeak peek at this rat-ically cool lab discovery.
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HENRY ZERIS, CNN ASSOCIATE PRODUCER (voice-over): This is the moment a rat presses the lever in its tiny car, driving towards a tasty treat. A
developing study which began over five years ago at the University of Richmond has just revealed that rats can not only be trained to drive, but
also seem to enjoy it.
KELLY LAMBERT, BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENTIST, UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND: So we had these indications that they enjoyed driving because they would jump in the
car and rev the engine. But another little preliminary test that we did last summer was allowing the animals to either walk or drive to the fruit
loop tree where they get their fruit loops. Day after day, week after week, they would see the car, run to the car, jump into the car, and drive. So
they went out of their way to drive. It suggests that they prefer the driving over walking.
ZERIS: Kelly and her team observed that human neurons are similar to rat`s neurons, meaning we can learn a lot about ourselves by studying rodent
models.
LAMBERT: Anticipation. I think that`s a critical kind of component of our brain lives. And I think that has some profound lessons, especially as
we`re living in this world of immediate gratification.
ZERIS: The experiment opens up several avenues for further exploration, such as testing if rats show competitiveness when racing against each
other, and if this model can be replicated in other animals.
LAMBERT: So any animal that can make an association between a reward and engage in -- in a behavior to activate the vehicle can -- can learn this.
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WIRE: Those things might end up taking the term rat race to a whole new level.
Thanks to all of you for submitting multitudinous exemplary words for Your Word Wednesday on my @coywire social accounts. Today`s winner is Mr.
Wesselman`s (ph) class in Remsen, Iowa for submitting corybantic, an adjective meaning wild or frenzied. Thanks for making us smarter today, all
my hawks at Remsen St. Mary`s.
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