In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories from Curiosity.com — with some help from scientist, computer engineer, and philosophy writer Bernardo Kastrup — to help you get smarter and learn something new in just a few minutes:

• This Paper Suggests the Universe Has Dissociative Identity Disorder
• Bernardo Kastrup Profile
• Panpsychism Is the Belief That the Universe Is Conscious of Itself
• Consciousness Is Known as the Hard Problem of Neuroscience
• Your Phone Makes You a Worse Driver Even if You Don't Touch It
• Nearly Everyone Experiences Intrusive Thoughts — Here's How To Handle Them
• Blame The Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon For The Things You Notice More Than Others

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Learn more about these topics and more on Curiosity.com, and download our 5-star app for Android and iOS. Then, join the conversation on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Plus: Amazon smart speaker users, enable our Alexa Flash Briefing to learn something new in just a few minutes every day!

Full episode transcript here: https://curiosity-daily-4e53644e.simplecast.com/episodes/the-universe-in-consciousness-w-bernardo-kastrup-intrusive-thoughts-phones-ruin-drivers-and-baader-meinhof

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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:

• BACKBLAZE: Fully featured 15-day free trial of unlimited cloud backup for your Mac or PC, which you can get for just $5/month
• To Rekindle Your Romance, Science Says Look at Cute Animal Pictures
• Ashley’s cat’s Instagram account @agletistiny
• New Brain Research Shows Why You Should Face Your Fears
• Pluto Was Named by an 11-Year-Old Girl
• Email us at [email protected] or tweet to us at @curiositydotcom

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Learn more about these topics and more on Curiosity.com, and download our 5-star app for Android and iOS. Then, join the conversation on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

Plus: Amazon smart speaker users, enable our Alexa Flash Briefing to learn something new in just a few minutes every day!

Full episode transcript here: https://curiosity-daily-4e53644e.simplecast.com/episodes/why-you-should-face-your-fears-rekindling-romance-with-cute-animals-and-naming-black-holes

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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:

• What Doing a Lot of Chores Says About Your Personality
• The Weird History of Ketchup You've Never Heard
• A New Study Shows Just How Damaging Helicopter Parenting Can Be

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Want to support our show? Register for the 2018 Podcast Awards and nominate Curiosity Daily to win for People’s Choice, Education, and Science & Medicine. Just register at the link and select Curiosity Daily from the drop-down menus (no need to pick nominees in every category): https://curiosity.im/podcast-awards-2018

Learn more about these topics and more on Curiosity.com, and download our 5-star app for Android and iOS. Then, join the conversation on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

Plus: Amazon smart speaker users, enable our Alexa Flash Briefing to learn something new in just a few minutes every day!

Full episode transcript here: https://curiosity-daily-4e53644e.simplecast.com/episodes/helicopter-parenting-damage-what-doing-chores-says-about-you-and-ketchup-history

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