life hacks

October 13, 2020Curiosity Daily Episodes, life hacks

Hacking Earth to Fight Climate Change

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 […]
October 12, 2020Curiosity Daily Episodes, history, life hacks, productivity, space

Earth’s Atmosphere May Be Rusting the Moon

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 […]
October 1, 2020Curiosity Daily Episodes, life hacks

What Happens When You Pull a Muscle?

Learn about what your muscles go through when they get pulled, whether trees have heartbeats, and the real science behind the recovering alcoholics’ mantra “one day at a time.” What […]
September 18, 2020Curiosity Daily Episodes, life hacks

Children Led a Research Project, Painting Eyes on Cow Butts, and Whether to Rinse Your Recycling

Learn about how children led their own research project into what they really think of adults, how painting eyes on cow butts could help solve a wildlife conservation problem, and […]
August 28, 2020Curiosity Daily Episodes, life hacks

Do Masks Stunt Emotional Development? Plus: Human Ears Perk Up, Too, and Why Your Shower Curtain Clings To You

Learn about the “shower-curtain effect,” the mystery of why your shower curtain will randomly cling to you; whether masks affect our emotional development; and why humans perk up their ears. […]
July 16, 2020Curiosity Daily Episodes, food, health, history, life hacks

Hack Your Short-Term Memory, The Wild Origins of Gallbladder Surgery, and Does Chocolate Cause Acne Breakouts?

Learn about whether chocolate actually causes acne breakouts; how to get around Miller’s law, which describes the limits of your short-term memory; and why one of the first gallbladder surgeries […]
May 14, 2020brains, Curiosity Daily Episodes, guest interview, life hacks

Where Our Emotions Come From and How to Hack Them (w/ Lisa Feldman Barrett) and Tarantula Venom Could Be an Opioid Alternative

Learn about where your emotions come from and how you can hack them, with help from psychology researcher and neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett. Plus: learn why tarantula venom could be […]
March 14, 2020brains, Curiosity Daily Episodes, food, life hacks

Speed Listening’s Effects on Emotion, Surprising Differences Between White and Brown Rice, and Pi Almost Legally Changed to 3.2

Learn about how speed listening to podcasts (or “podfasting”) affects our emotions; the health differences between white and brown rice; and the time pi was once almost legally changed to […]
February 24, 2020Curiosity Daily Episodes, fitness and exercise, life hacks

Your Dance Style Is as Unique as Your Fingerprint, the Myth of Muscle Confusion, and How Animals Get Color Without Pigment

Learn about whether the exercise trend of “muscle confusion” really works; how structural colors give animals their vibrant hues; and why the way you dance is just as unique as […]
February 10, 2020animals, Curiosity Daily Episodes, life hacks, medicine, space

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 […]