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Learn about why predators don’t hunt their prey into extinction, then discover the history of crossword puzzles from author Adrienne Raphel!
Why Don’t Predators Hunt Their Prey Into Extinction? By Cameron Duke
Additional resources from Adrienne Raphel:
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Learn about what it would be like to travel through a wormhole, how the pumpkin became North America’s Halloween mascot, and how social isolation can fuel conspiracy theories.
What Would It Be Like to Ride Through a Wormhole? By Ashley Hamer
How Did Pumpkins Become Halloween’s Go-to Decoration? By Kelsey Donk
Social Isolation Could Breed Conspiracy Theorists by Anna Todd
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Learn about why officials in Idaho once dropped beavers from parachutes, how your romantic partner might be influencing your goals (and vice versa), and test your podcast knowledge with this month’s Curiosity Challenge trivia game.
Romantic Partners Influence Each Other's Goals by Kelsey Donk
Why Idaho Officials Dropped Beavers from Parachutes by Steffie Drucker
Episodes referenced in Curiosity Challenge Trivia with Melissa:
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Learn about the disturbing original plots of five beloved fairy tales, how the HALT method can help control your impulses, and why our ability to drink milk evolved way faster than we thought!
Here Are the Disturbing and Gory Origins of 5 Beloved Fairy Tales by Stephanie Bucklin
Learn the “HALT” Method to Control Your Impulses by Annie Hartman
Our ability to drink milk evolved way faster than we thought by Cameron Duke
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Learn how superstitions can actually reduce anxiety, why rebooting can often fix computer problems, and why the first full dinosaur skeleton ever found is finally being studied 160 years later.
How Superstitions Can Actually Reduce Anxiety by Reuben Westmaas
Why Does Rebooting Fix Computer Problems? By Sonja Hodgen
The First Complete Dinosaur Skeleton Ever Found has Finally Been Studied After 160 Years by Grant Currin
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Learn about the likelihood that we all live in a computer simulation. Then, author Thomas Kostigen explains how geoengineering might help cool the planet and save the world.
Two physicists calculated the likelihood that we live in a computer simulation by Grant Currin
Additional resources from Thomas Kostigen, New York Times-bestselling author and journalist:
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Find episode transcript here: https://curiosity-daily-4e53644e.simplecast.com/episodes/hacking-earth-to-fight-climate-change
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Learn why the concept of zero is newer than you might think, how you can worry more productively, and why the Earth’s atmosphere might be rusting the moon.
The Concept of Zero Is Newer Than You'd Expect by Reuben Westmaas
How to Worry More Productively by Kelsy Donk
Earth's Atmosphere May be Rusting the Moon by Grant Currin
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Learn about how patient O became patient zero, what it takes for a species to evolve twice, and how pesky fruit flies keep getting into your garbage.
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It's "Patient O," Not "Patient Zero" by Ashley Hamer
With Iterative Evolution, a Species Can Evolve TWICE by Cameron Duke
How do fruitflies keep getting into my house? by Ashley Hamer (Listener question from Julien)
Subscribe to Curiosity Daily to learn something new every day with Ashley Hamer and Natalia Reagan (filling in for Cody Gough). 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 how cold the last ice age was, why your body’s stress response can actually be healthy for you, and how to stop a jack-a-lantern from spoiling.
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Researchers Know How Cold the Last Ice Age Was by Grant Currin
Pandemic Stress Study Shows That a Stress Response Can be Healthy by Kelsey Donk
How to stop a jack-o-lantern from spoiling by Ashley Hamer
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Learn about why cancer is stranger than we think and how scientists have “teleported” the behavior of real fish into robot fish.
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Scientists "teleported" the real-time behavior of a real fish onto a robot fish by Grant Currin
Additional resources from Kat Arney:
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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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