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space, life hacks, Curiosity Daily Episodes
What Science Says About Putting 2 Spaces After a Period
Learn about how clocks and lightbulbs changed human health, with author and materials scientist Ainissa Ramirez. Plus: learn about that time a bunch of birds became milk bottle thieves and […]
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food, life hacks, brains, Curiosity Daily Episodes
The Time Pi Was 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 […]
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life hacks, Curiosity Daily Episodes
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 […]
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history, space, productivity, life hacks, Curiosity Daily Episodes
Earth’s Atmosphere May Be Rusting the MoonLearn 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 […]
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life hacks, Curiosity Daily Episodes
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 […]
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life hacks, Curiosity Daily Episodes
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 […]
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life hacks, Curiosity Daily Episodes
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. […]
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history, food, health, life hacks, Curiosity Daily Episodes
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 […]
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life hacks, brains, guest interview, Curiosity Daily Episodes
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 […]
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food, life hacks, brains, Curiosity Daily Episodes
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 […]
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