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What gets you curious? Virtual experiences, celestial bodies, water worlds or maybe just the tiniest mysteries inside your brain? The endlessly curious and curiously funny, Gillian Jacobs (Community, Netflix's LOVE) and Diona Reasonover (NCIS), step off set to go on tangents with real-life astronauts, astrophysicists, science artists, mathematician-types and other really smart people that investigate what seems impossible.
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Learn about why popular opinion might not be as popular as you thought; a new analysis that’s debunked the blood type diet; and a pool of water in Kidd Creek Mine in Timmins, Ontario, Canada, that’s 2 billion years old.
One person repeating an opinion makes people think it's a popular opinion by Kelsey Donk
A new analysis has debunked the blood type diet by Grant Currin
The World's Oldest Known Pool of Water Is a Staggering 2 Billion Years Old by Joanie Faletto
Subscribe to Curiosity Daily to learn something new every day with Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer. You can also listen to our podcast as part of your Alexa Flash Briefing; Amazon smart speakers users, click/tap “enable” here: https://www.amazon.com/Curiosity-com-Curiosity-Daily-from/dp/B07CP17DJY
Find episode transcript here: https://curiosity-daily-4e53644e.simplecast.com/episodes/popular-opinion-isnt-what-you-think
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Learn about how Arnold’s ear-cough reflex can make you cough when you clean your ears; why it’s important to teach your kids about giving when they’re learning about money; and a hidden letter in the alphabet that you already sing.
Why do I cough when I clean my ears? by Ashley Hamer (Listener question from Rachita)
Teaching Kids about Money? Don't Forget Giving by Sonja Hodgen
There's a hidden letter in the alphabet song, and you already sing it by Cameron Duke
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Find episode transcript here: https://curiosity-daily-4e53644e.simplecast.com/episodes/why-do-i-cough-when-i-clean-my-ears
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Award-winning scientist and science communicator Ainissa Ramirez explains how copper changed our language. Then, learn about the surprising health benefits of brown fat.
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Largest study of brown fat ever shows just how healthy it is by Grant Currin
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Learn about why just because you want something doesn’t mean you like it; why Esperanto is the world’s most successful universal language; and a gene therapy injection in one eye that improved vision in both.
Just because you want something doesn't mean you like it — and that has implications for addiction by Kelsey Donk
Esperanto Is the World's Universal Language by Reuben Westmaas
Gene therapy injection in one eye surprises scientists by improving vision in both by Cameron Duke
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Learn about how hoarders’ brains see their belongings; why dolphins consciously lower their heart rates; and what scientists think happened before the big bang.
How Hoarders' Brains See Their Belongings by Ashley Hamer
Dolphins consciously decrease their heart rates before diving by Grant Currin
What Came Before the Big Bang? originally aired September 3, 2018: https://omny.fm/shows/curiosity-daily/what-came-before-the-big-bang-diner-designs-and-th
Powers of Ten (1977): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0
Subscribe to Curiosity Daily to learn something new every day with Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer. You can also listen to our podcast as part of your Alexa Flash Briefing; Amazon smart speakers users, click/tap “enable” here: https://www.amazon.com/Curiosity-com-Curiosity-Daily-from/dp/B07CP17DJY
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Learn about the “smellicopter,” a drone that can smell via a live moth antenna; why the “Dark Ages” weren’t as dark as you might think; and how simple word swaps can secretly trick your brain.
Introducing Smellicopter: a drone that uses a live moth antenna to smell things by Grant Currin
The Dark Ages weren't all that "dark" by Steffie Drucker
The Framing Effect Shows How Simple Word Swaps Can Secretly Trick Your Brain by Ashley Hamer
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Learn about whether reading computer code is the same to your brain as reading another language; and a personality trait that could be key to lasting romance. Then, play along at home as we test your podcast knowledge in this month’s edition of Curiosity Challenge trivia.
Is computer code the same as language to your brain? by Steffie Drucker
This Personality Trait Could Be Key to Lasting Romance by Sonja Hodgen
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Learn about how having hope for the future could protect you from risky behaviors like drinking and gambling; how your dog’s personality can change over time; and “limnic eruptions” — or, deadly exploding lakes.
Having hope for the future could protect you from risky behaviors like drinking and gambling by Kelsey Donk
Your Dog's Personality Can Change Over Time by Mae Rice
These Exploding Lakes Killed Thousands of People in an Instant by Reuben Westmaas
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Princeton University Anthropology Professor Agustín Fuentes explains why race is a social construct — as in, biological race isn’t real. Then, learn how plants pass down “bad” memories to their offspring through epigenetics.
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Plants pass down "bad" memories to their offspring, which can inhibit growth by Grant Currin
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Welcome to Curiosity Weekly from Discovery, hosted by Dr. Samantha Yammine. Once a week, we’ll bring you the latest and greatest in scientific discoveries and break down the details so that you…
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