Curiosity Weekly

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  • Opposites Don’t Attract, We Like What’s Physically Close to Us, and the History of Last Names

    Learn about why opposites don’t really attract; the “propinquity effect” and how physical distance affects the way we feel about other people; and the history of when and why we started using last names.

    Opposites Don’t Attract by Kelsey Donk

    • Johnson, M. D. (2018, February 12). No, opposites do not attract. The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/no-opposites-do-not-attract-88839
    • Montoya, R. M., & Horton, R. S. (2012). A meta-analytic investigation of the processes underlying the similarity-attraction effect. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 30(1), 64–94. https://doi.org/10.1177/0265407512452989

    We Like What’s Physically Close to Us by Mae Rice

    • New evidence for the “propinquity effect” – mere physical closeness increases our liking of desirable people and things. (2018, August). Research Digest; Research Digest. https://digest.bps.org.uk/2018/08/01/new-evidence-for-the-propinquity-effect-mere-physical-closeness-increases-our-liking-of-desirable-people-and-things/
    • Shin, J., Suh, E. M., Li, N. P., Eo, K., Chong, S. C., & Tsai, M.-H. (2018). Darling, Get Closer to Me: Spatial Proximity Amplifies Interpersonal Liking. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 45(2), 300–309. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167218784903

    The History of Last Names by Ashley Hamer (Listener question from Gregory)

    • Surnames Meanings, Origins & Distribution Maps. (2012). Forebears.Io. https://forebears.io/surnames
    • Surnames & The Norman Conquest | Heritage Family History. (2016, September 3). Heritagefamilyhistory.co.uk. https://www.heritagefamilyhistory.co.uk/blog/2016/09/surnames-the-norman-conquest/
    • SCMP. (2016, November 17). South China Morning Post. https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/2046955/complex-origins-chinese-names-demystified
    • The Memi De-Shalit Database of Jewish Family Names at Beit Hatfutsot. (2020). Beit Hatfutsot. https://www.bh.org.il/databases/family-names/jewish-family-names-introduction/
    • Muraskin, B. (2014, January 8). Jewish Surnames Explained. Slate Magazine; Slate. https://slate.com/human-interest/2014/01/ashkenazi-names-the-etymology-of-the-most-common-jewish-surnames.html

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    12 min
  • How GPS Clocks Work (w/ Hugo Fruehauf) and Why Stress Turns Hair Gray

    Learn how atomic clocks and how GPS clocks work, with help from the engineer who made GPS clocks possible: Hugo Fruehauf. But first, you’ll learn about how Harvard researchers finally figured out why stress can turn your hair gray.

    Why Stress Turns Hair Gray by Grant Currin

    • Zhang, B., Ma, S., Rachmin, I., He, M., Baral, P., Choi, S., Gonçalves, W. A., Shwartz, Y., Fast, E. M., Su, Y., Zon, L. I., Regev, A., Buenrostro, J. D., Cunha, T. M., Chiu, I. M., Fisher, D. E., & Hsu, Y.-C. (2020). Hyperactivation of sympathetic nerves drives depletion of melanocyte stem cells. Nature, 577(7792), 676–681. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-1935-3
    • Clark, S. A., & Deppmann, C. D. (2020). How the stress of fight or flight turns hair white. Nature, 577(7792), 623–624. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-03949-8

    Additional resources from Hugo Fruehauf:

    • The Global Positioning System. (2019). Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering. https://qeprize.org/winners/the-global-positioning-system
    • Elizabeth, Q. (2020). The QEPrize Judges introduce GPS [YouTube Video]. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CH_fmO-QO8&feature=youtu.be
    • Hugo Fruehauf. (2019). Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering. https://qeprize.org/winners/hugo-fruehauf
    • Cozzens, T. (2019, December 3). GPS pioneers honored with Queen’s award at Buckingham Palace - GPS World. GPS World. https://www.gpsworld.com/gps-pioneers-honored-with-queens-award-at-buckingham-palace/
    • Hugo Fruehauf Official Website http://hugofruehauf.com/

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    13 min
  • The Academic Benefits of Emotional Intelligence, Atoms Split in Uneven Shapes, and Wolf Puppies Can Play Fetch

    Learn about why students with higher emotional intelligence do better in school; how scientists solved an 80-year mystery of how atoms split; and an adorable discovery that changes what we know about the canine brain. Spoiler: it involves wolf puppies.

    The Academic Benefits of Emotional Intelligence by Kelsey Donk

    • Students do better in school when they can understand, manage emotions. (2019). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-12/apa-sdb121019.php
    • Pattillo, A. (2019, December 12). This underrated type of intelligence could predict academic success. Inverse. https://www.inverse.com/article/61671-emotional-intelligence-is-key-factor-for-success
    • Maccann, C., Jiang, Y., Brown, L., Double, K., Bucich, M., & Minbashian, A. (2007). Emotional Intelligence Predicts Academic Performance: A Meta-Analysis. https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/bul-bul0000219.pdf

    Atoms Split in Uneven Shapes by Grant Currin

    • Dooley, P. (2019, December 9). Things go pear-shaped when you split the atom. Cosmosmagazine.Com; Cosmos Magazine. https://cosmosmagazine.com/physics/things-go-pear-shaped-when-you-split-the-atom
    • Scamps, G., & Simenel, C. (2018). Impact of pear-shaped fission fragments on mass-asymmetric fission in actinides. Nature, 564(7736), 382–385. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0780-0
    • CrashCourse. (2020). Nuclear Chemistry Part 2 - Fusion and Fission: Crash Course Chemistry #39 [YouTube Video]. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FU6y1XIADdg
    • University of Tsukuba. (2018, December 20). Why does nuclear fission produce pear-shaped nuclei? Phys.org. https://phys.org/news/2018-12-nuclear-fission-pear-shaped-nuclei.html

    Wolf Puppies Can Play Fetch by Steffie Drucker

    • Scientists unexpectedly witness wolf puppies play fetch. (2020). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-01/cp-suw010920.php
    • Yong, E. (2016, June 2). The Origin of Dogs: When, Where, and How Many Times Were They Domesticated? The Atlantic. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/06/the-origin-of-dogs/484976/
    • Hansen Wheat, C., & Temrin, H. (2020). Intrinsic Ball Retrieving in Wolf Puppies Suggests Standing Ancestral Variation for Human-Directed Play Behavior. IScience, 100811. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2019.100811

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    Find episode transcript here: https://curiosity-daily-4e53644e.simplecast.com/episodes/the-academic-benefits-of-emotional-intelligence-atoms-split-in-uneven-shapes-and-wolf-puppies-can-play-fetch

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    11 min
  • A Reason to Reveal Your Failures, the Time Tulips Cost More Than Houses, and the Death of Planet WASP-12b

    Learn about why successful people should reveal their failures; the extreme story of the death of planet WASP-12b; and why tulips used to cost more than houses during a period known as “tulip mania.”

    A Reason to Reveal Your Failures by Kelsey Donk

    • HBS Working Knowledge. (2018, December 11). Why Managers Should Reveal Their Failures. Forbes. https://www.forbes.com/sites/hbsworkingknowledge/2018/12/11/why-managers-should-reveal-their-failures/#695e82c362e2
    • Envy Can Be Good for You. (2019). Curiosity.com. https://curiosity.com/topics/envy-can-be-good-for-you-curiosity
    • Brooks, A. W., Huang, K., Abi-Esber, N., Buell, R. W., Huang, L., & Hall, B. (2019). Mitigating malicious envy: Why successful individuals should reveal their failures. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 148(4), 667–687. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0000538

    The Death of Planet WASP-12b by Grant Currin

    • Planet WASP-12b is on a death spiral, say Princeton scientists. (2020). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-01/pu-pwi010820.php
    • The Planet WASP-12b Is Hot As Hades And Dark As Night. (2017). Curiosity.com. https://curiosity.com/topics/the-planet-wasp-12b-is-hot-as-hades-and-dark-as-night-curiosity
    • Hubble Captures Blistering Pitch-Black Planet. (2011). NASA. https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2017/hubble-captures-blistering-pitch-black-planet

    Tulips Cost More Than Houses During Dutch "Tulip Mania" by Cody Gough

    https://curiosity.com/topics/tulips-cost-more-than-houses-during-dutch-tulip-mania-curiosity

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    12 min
  • Stanford Technique for Picking Creative Ideas, Why Whales Are So Big (But Not Bigger), and the First Medical Diagnosis and Treatment in Space from Earth

    Learn about how doctors on Earth diagnosed and treated an astronaut’s medical problem in space for the first time; a new study that explains why whales are so big, but not bigger; and a Stanford technique for getting better at picking creative ideas.

    The First Medical Diagnosis and Treatment in Space from Earth by Mae Rice

    • First reported occurrence and treatment of spaceflight medical risk 200+ miles above Earth. (2020). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-01/lsuh-1ro010220.php
    • The Human Body in Space. (2011). NASA. https://www.nasa.gov/hrp/bodyinspace
    • Venous Thrombosis during Spaceflight | NEJM. (2020). New England Journal of Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMc1905875
    • How Long Does it Take to Get to Mars? (2013, May 9). Universe Today. https://www.universetoday.com/14841/how-long-does-it-take-to-get-to-mars/
    • Rivard, A. B., & Bracken Burns. (2018, December 6). Anatomy, Head and Neck, Internal Jugular Vein. Nih.Gov; StatPearls Publishing. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK513258/

    Why Whales Are So Big (But Not Bigger) by Steffie Drucker

    • Learn, J. (2019, December 16). New Research Reveals Why Whales Evolved to be so Big. Discover Magazine. https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/new-research-reveals-why-whales-evolved-to-be-so-big-isns
    • Goldbogen, J. A., Cade, D. E., Wisniewska, D. M., Potvin, J., Segre, P. S., Savoca, M. S., Hazen, E. L., Czapanskiy, M. F., Kahane-Rapport, S. R., DeRuiter, S. L., Gero, S., Tønnesen, P., Gough, W. T., Hanson, M. B., Holt, M. M., Jensen, F. H., Simon, M., Stimpert, A. K., Arranz, P., … Pyenson, N. D. (2019). Why whales are big but not bigger: Physiological drivers and ecological limits in the age of ocean giants. Science, 366(6471), 1367–1372. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aax9044
    • Whale Classification of Whales Baleen Whales Toothed Whales. (2020). Whaleroute.Com. https://www.whaleroute.com/class/index.htm
    • Black, R. (2014, April 22). Whales vs. Dinosaurs: What’s the Biggest Animal of All Time? Slate Magazine; Slate. https://slate.com/technology/2014/04/whales-or-dinosaurs-what-are-the-biggest-heaviest-longest-animals-ever.html
    • Blue whales can eat half a million calories in a single mouthful. (2010, December 9). Nationalgeographic.com. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/phenomena/2010/12/09/blue-whales-can-eat-half-a-million-calories-in-a-single-mouthful/
    • Learn, J. (2019, December 16). New Research Reveals Why Whales Evolved to be so Big. Discover Magazine. https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/new-research-reveals-why-whales-evolved-to-be-so-big-isns
    • Williams, T. M. (2019). The biology of big. Science, 366(6471), 1316–1317. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aba1128

    Stanford Technique for Picking Creative Ideas by Steffie Drucker

    • Stanford. (2019, December 13). How you can get better at picking creative ideas. Futurity. https://www.futurity.org/creativity-creative-ideas-2232732/
    • Berg, J. M. (2019). When silver is gold: Forecasting the potential creativity of initial ideas. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 154, 96–117. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.obhdp.2019.08.004

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    Find episode transcript here: https://curiosity-daily-4e53644e.simplecast.com/episodes/stanford-technique-for-picking-creative-ideas-why-whales-are-so-big-but-not-bigger-and-the-first-medical-diagnosis-and-treatment-in-space-from-earth

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    10 min
  • Measuring the Deadliness of Viruses (Like Coronavirus), Why We Do the Potty Dance, and Depression’s Cousin “Acedia”

    Learn about how scientists measure the contagiousness and deadliness of diseases like coronavirus; the history of acedia, an emotion that is similar to (but distinct from) depression; and why it helps to do a “potty dance” when you really have to go to the bathroom.

    Measuring the Deadliness of Viruses (Like Coronavirus) by Ashley Hamer

    • McCandless, D. (2018, October). The MicrobeScope – Infectious Diseases in Context — Information is Beautiful. https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/the-microbescope-infectious-diseases-in-context/
    • Vanessa Bates Ramirez. (2014, October 28). What Is R0?: Gauging Contagious Infections. Healthline; Healthline Media. https://www.healthline.com/health/r-nought-reproduction-number
    • Vogel, Gretchen (2014, September 8). How deadly is Ebola? Statistical challenges may be inflating survival rate. Science | AAAS. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2014/09/how-deadly-ebola-statistical-challenges-may-be-inflating-survival-rate
    • How Bad Will the Coronavirus Outbreak Get? Here Are 6 Key Factors. (2020, January 31). The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/world/asia/china-coronavirus-contain.html

    Depression’s Cousin “Acedia” by Mae Rice

    • You Might Not Actually Be Struggling With Depression | HeartSupport https://blog.heartsupport.com/you-might-not-actually-be-struggling-with-depression-8ce57ab41f66
    • Before Sloth Meant Laziness, It Was the Spiritual Sin of Acedia | Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/desert-fathers-sins-acedia-sloth
    • Do You Have Any of These 3 Signs of Acedia? | National Catholic Register http://www.ncregister.com/blog/dlittle/do-you-have-any-of-these-3-signs-of-acedia
    • Kathleen Norris battles ‘the demon of acedia’ | Los Angeles Times https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-ca-kathleen-norris21-2008sep21-story.html
    • Depression And Acedia: The Mood And The Spirit | PsyWeb http://www.psyweb.com/articles/depression/depression-and-acedia-the-mood-and-the-spirit/
    • A Need For Spiritual Connection | Psychology Today https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/spiritual-wisdom-secular-times/201608/need-spiritual-connection

    Why We Do the Potty Dance by Ashley Hamer (Listener question from Stewart C.)

    • Ashish. (2015, December 29). Why Do We “Dance” When We Really Need to Urinate? » Science ABC. https://www.scienceabc.com/humans/why-do-we-dance-when-we-really-need-to-urinate.html
    • Displacement activity | animal behaviour | Britannica. (2020). In Encyclopædia Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/science/displacement-activity
    • Farricelli, A. (2013, May 3). Understanding Dog Displacement Behaviors. PetHelpful; PetHelpful. https://pethelpful.com/dogs/Understanding-Dog-Dispacement-Behavior
    • UConn Today. (2016, November 30). Mind Over Bladder: The Brain-Organ Connection. UConn Today. https://today.uconn.edu/2016/11/mind-bladder-research-explores-brain-organ-connection
    • Angle, S. (2016, April 21). Why Do You Have to Pee the Closer You Get to a Bathroom? Shape. https://www.shape.com/lifestyle/mind-and-body/why-do-you-have-pee-closer-you-get-bathroom

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    11 min
  • The Invention of GPS (w/ Hugo Fruehauf) and Planning Cheat Days to Achieve Your Goals

    Hugo Fruehauf, one of the inventors of GPS and a recipient of the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, tells the surprising story of how GPS was invented. Plus: learn about how planning cheat days could make your next goal easier to achieve.

    Planning Cheat Days to Achieve Your Goals by Mae Rice

    • Planned "Cheat Days" Can Help You Achieve Your Goals, According To New Study | Bustle https://www.bustle.com/articles/155981-planned-cheat-days-can-help-you-achieve-your-goals-according-to-new-study
    • How To Achieve Your New Year’s Resolutions, According To Psychology | Research Digest https://digest.bps.org.uk/2020/01/13/how-to-achieve-your-new-years-resolutions-according-to-psychology/
    • How cheating can help you reach your goals | BBC https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20180216-yes-cheat-a-tiny-bit-on-those-goals
    • Coelho do Vale, R., Pieters, R. and Zeelenberg, M. (2016), The benefits of behaving badly on occasion: Successful regulation by planned hedonic deviations. Journal of Consumer Psychology, 26: 17-28. doi:10.1016/j.jcps.2015.05.001 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1016/j.jcps.2015.05.001
    • Why 80 Percent of New Year's Resolutions Fail | U.S. News https://health.usnews.com/health-news/blogs/eat-run/articles/2015-12-29/why-80-percent-of-new-years-resolutions-fail

    Additional resources from Hugo Fruehauf:

    • The Global Positioning System. (2019). Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering. https://qeprize.org/winners/the-global-positioning-system
    • Elizabeth, Q. (2020). The QEPrize Judges introduce GPS [YouTube Video]. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CH_fmO-QO8&feature=youtu.be
    • Hugo Fruehauf. (2019). Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering. https://qeprize.org/winners/hugo-fruehauf
    • Cozzens, T. (2019, December 3). GPS pioneers honored with Queen’s award at Buckingham Palace - GPS World. GPS World. https://www.gpsworld.com/gps-pioneers-honored-with-queens-award-at-buckingham-palace/
    • Hugo Fruehauf Official Website http://hugofruehauf.com/
    • Space weather effects on Satellite Communications :: Space Weather Center. (2020). Rra.Go.Kr. https://spaceweather.rra.go.kr/effect/english/03_07

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    13 min
  • Criminal Profiling Doesn’t Work, Exoplanets’ Magma Oceans Eat Their Skies, and Superhuman Red Blood Cells for Drug Delivery

    Learn about why criminal profiling doesn’t seem to work in real life; planets with oceans of molten rock that basically eat the sky; and superhuman red blood cells that could be used to deliver life-saving drugs.

    Criminal Profiling Probably Doesn’t Work by Kelsey Donk

    • MacMillan, T. (2017, October 20). Can Criminal Profilers Really Get Inside the Head of a Killer? Vulture; Vulture. https://www.vulture.com/2017/10/mindhunter-criminal-profiling-really-work-like-this.html
    • Matthews, D. (2018, November 12). Criminal Minds, Mindhunter: criminal profiling doesn’t work. Vox; Vox. https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2018/11/12/18044688/criminal-profilers-mindhunter-hannibal-criminal-minds
    • Gladwell, M. (2007, November 4). Dangerous Minds. The New Yorker; The New Yorker. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/11/12/dangerous-minds
    • Snook, B., Cullen, R. M., Bennell, C., Taylor, P. J., & Gendreau, P. (2008). The Criminal Profiling Illusion. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 35(10), 1257–1276. https://doi.org/10.1177/0093854808321528
    • Snook, B., Eastwood, J., Gendreau, P., Goggin, C., & Cullen, R. M. (2007). Taking Stock of Criminal Profiling. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 34(4), 437–453. https://doi.org/10.1177/0093854806296925

    Some Exoplanets’ Magma Oceans Eat Their Skies by Grant Currin

    • Mission overview. (2011). NASA. https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/kepler/overview/index.html
    • Lerner-Chicago, L. (2019, December 27). Exoplanets with magma oceans may “eat” their own skies - Futurity. Futurity. https://www.futurity.org/exoplanets-magma-oceans-2241842/
    • Kite, E. S., Bruce Fegley Jr., Schaefer, L., & Ford, E. B. (2019). Superabundance of Exoplanet Sub-Neptunes Explained by Fugacity Crisis. The Astrophysical Journal, 887(2), L33. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ab59d9 / https://arxiv.org/pdf/1912.02701.pdf

    Superhuman Red Blood Cells for Drug Delivery by Cameron Duke

    • Special delivery: McMaster physicists design ‘super-human’ red blood cells to deliver drugs to specific targets within the body. (2020). Mcmaster.Ca. https://brighterworld.mcmaster.ca/articles/special-delivery-mcmaster-physicists-design-super-human-red-blood-cells-to-deliver-drugs-to-specific-targets-within-the-body/
    • Himbert, S., Blacker, M. J., Kihm, A., Pauli, Q., Khondker, A., Yang, K., Sinjari, S., Johnson, M., Juhasz, J., Wagner, C., Stöver, H. D. H., & Rheinstädter, M. C. (2020). Hybrid Erythrocyte Liposomes: Functionalized Red Blood Cell Membranes for Molecule Encapsulation. Advanced Biosystems, 1900185. https://doi.org/10.1002/adbi.201900185

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    Find episode transcript here: https://curiosity-daily-4e53644e.simplecast.com/episodes/criminal-profiling-doesnt-work-exoplanets-magma-oceans-eat-their-skies-and-superhuman-red-blood-cells-for-drug-delivery

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    9 min
  • The 13 Emotions Music Evokes, Surprising Things Pregnancy Does to the Body, and Solving the Tiny T. Rex Mystery

    Learn about the 13 categories of emotions that music makes you feel; how scientists solved the mystery of two strangely small tyrannosaurus rex fossils; and surprising things that happen to a pregnant person’s body.

    Research Suggests That Music Evokes 13 Key Emotions by Kelsey Donk

    • Anwar, Y. (2020, January 6). Ooh là là! Music evokes at least 13 emotions. Scientists have mapped them. Berkeley News. https://news.berkeley.edu/2020/01/06/music-evokes-13-emotions/
    • Noonan, D. (2020, January 6). Is a Sad Song Sad for Everyone? Scientific American. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-a-sad-song-sad-for-everyone/
    • Cowen, A. S., Fang, X., Sauter, D., & Keltner, D. (2020). What music makes us feel: At least 13 dimensions organize subjective experiences associated with music across different cultures. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(4), 1924–1934. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1910704117

    Two Tiny T-Rexes Turned Out to Be Teenagers by Mae Rice

    • Secrets behind T. rex’s bone crushing bites: T. rex could crush with 8,000 pound bite forces. (2017). ScienceDaily. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/05/170517090520.htm
    • Researchers learn more about teen-age T.Rex. (2020). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-01/osuc-rlm122019.php
    • Woodward, H. N., Tremaine, K., Williams, S. A., Zanno, L. E., Horner, J. R., & Myhrvold, N. (2020). Growing up Tyrannosaurus rex: Osteohistology refutes the pygmy “Nanotyrannus” and supports ontogenetic niche partitioning in juvenile Tyrannosaurus. Science Advances, 6(1), eaax6250. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aax6250

    Surprising Things Pregnancy Does to the Body by Kelsey Donk

    • Nierenberg, C. (2015, May 19). Body Changes During Pregnancy. Livescience.Com; Live Science. https://www.livescience.com/50877-regnancy-body-changes.html
    • Catriona Harvey-Jenner. (2017, April 12). 10 weird things you didn’t realise happen to your body during pregnancy. Cosmopolitan; Cosmopolitan. https://www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/body/health/a9266776/weird-things-happen-to-body-during-pregnancy/
    • Cari Wira Dineen. (2016, May 4). Crazy Ways Your Body Changes During Pregnancy. Parents; Parents. https://www.parents.com/pregnancy/my-body/changing/crazy-ways-your-body-changes-during-pregnancy/

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  • Your Romantic Relationships Are All Similar, Why Cuttlefish Wore 3-D Glasses, and the Oldest Material on Earth

    Learn about why your next relationship will probably be like your last one; what scientists learned by studying the oldest material on Earth; and what researchers learned when they had cuttlefish wear 3-D glasses.

    Why Your Next Relationship Will Probably Be Like Your Last by Kelsey Donk

    • Changing partners doesn’t change relationship dynamics, study shows. (2019). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-08/uoa-cpd082719.php
    • Johnson, M. D., & Neyer, F. J. (2019). (Eventual) stability and change across partnerships. Journal of Family Psychology, 33(6), 711–721. https://doi.org/10.1037/fam0000523

    Scientist Discovered the Oldest Material on Earth by Grant Currin

    • WMAP- Life and Death of Stars. (2010). Nasa.Gov. https://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/universe/rel_stars.html
    • Meteorite contains the oldest material on Earth: 7-billion-year-old stardust. (2020). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-01/fm-mct010820.php
    • This ancient stardust is the oldest ever to be examined in a lab. (2020, January 13). Science News. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ancient-meteorite-stardust-oldest-ever-examined-lab
    • 7 billion-year-old stardust is the oldest stuff on Earth. (2020, January 13). The Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2020/01/13/seven-billion-year-old-stardust-is-oldest-stuff-earth/
    • Heck, P. R., Greer, J., Kööp, L., Trappitsch, R., Gyngard, F., Busemann, H., Maden, C., Ávila, J. N., Davis, A. M., & Wieler, R. (2020). Lifetimes of interstellar dust from cosmic ray exposure ages of presolar silicon carbide. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(4), 1884–1889. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1904573117

    Why Scientists Put Cuttlefish in 3-D Glasses by Grant Currin

    • Yes, This Cuttlefish Is Wearing 3-D Glasses. (2020, January 8). The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/08/science/3d-glasses-cuttlefish.html
    • Cuttlefish use depth perception similar to vertebrate vision when hunting prey. (2020). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-01/aaft-cud010620.php

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