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Bystanders Help More Often Than You Thought, Avoiding Failure, and Cause and Effect Crows


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Learn about why bystanders help would-be victims more often than we thought; how you should think about past failures to avoid future failures; and how crows passed an ancient test from Aesop’s Fables. 
In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter and learn something new in just a few minutes:
A New Surveillance Footage Study Shows That Bystanders Help More Often Than We Thought — https://curiosity.im/2KiEx3y 
Dwelling on Your Failure Might Help You Succeed — https://curiosity.im/2LARHLg
Crows Can Pass This Ancient Test from Aesop's Fables — https://curiosity.im/2LAp2Gg 
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