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March 1, 2021brains, Curiosity Daily Episodes

What Getting Chills from Music Says About Your Brain

Learn about a surprising benefit of adding humor to the news; what getting chills from music says about your brain; and how Volta’s electric eels that hunt in packs. Young […]
February 24, 2021sleep, health, brains, Curiosity Daily Episodes

What Would Happen If You Stopped Time?

Learn about how sleep may have evolved before the brain; why airports keep birds of prey on staff; and what would happen if you stopped time. Sleep might have evolved […]
February 23, 2021brains, Curiosity Daily Episodes

Introducing If/Then

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) […]
February 17, 2021health, genetics, brains, Curiosity Daily Episodes

‘Wanting’ and ‘Liking’ Are Different to Your Brain

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 […]
February 16, 2021brains, Curiosity Daily Episodes

What Came Before the Big Bang?

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 […]
February 15, 2021history, brains, Curiosity Daily Episodes

The Dark Ages Weren’t Really Dark

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 […]
February 12, 2021brains, Curiosity Daily Episodes

This Trait Could Be Key to Lasting Romance

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 […]
January 21, 2021brains, Curiosity Daily Episodes

A Distant Galaxy Is Warping the Milky Way

Author Jen Sincero explains why it’s important to form and maintain habits. You’ll also learn about why phantom limb sensations are way more common than you think; and how the […]
January 19, 2021sleep, food, brains, Curiosity Daily Episodes

We Still Don’t Know How Ice Skating Works

Learn about how social connection may be as basic of a human need as hunger; the ongoing scientific debate around how ice skating actually works; and the Uberman sleep cycle, […]
January 12, 2021brains, Curiosity Daily Episodes

Why Are the COVID-19 Vaccines Kept So Cold?

Learn about how the Faroe Islands created their own Google Street View using sheep; why some vaccines (like Pfizer’s and Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccines) have to be kept so cold; and […]