Tag: self-improvement

January 27, 2019history, sleep, life hacks, Curiosity Daily Episodes

How to Change Your Personality, Why You Jerk Awake While Falling Asleep, and Ainu History

Learn about new research into whether you can change your personality; why historians are stumped over the history of the Ainu, Japan’s indigenous people; and why you jerk awake while […]
January 24, 2019biology, life hacks, Curiosity Daily Episodes

How to Improve Your Self-Control, Why You Shouldn’t Touch Your Plants, and Firehawk Raptors

Learn about whether you can improve your self-control; why certain types of birds set fires on purpose; and why you shouldn’t touch your plants. Please support our sponsors! Visit movaglobes.com/curiosity […]
January 17, 2019sleep, productivity, life hacks, brains, Curiosity Daily Episodes

Achieve Goals with the Pareto Principle, How to Think Creatively, and a Simple Sleep Fix

Learn about a surprisingly low-tech fix to the problem of sleep-deprived teens; how you can use the Pareto Principle to help you achieve your goals; and three tips for thinking […]
January 8, 2019history, communication, Curiosity Daily Episodes

A Trick for Being Taken More Seriously, Messy Office Traits, and Human Domestication

Learn about a simple trick for making people take you more seriously; what a messy office might say about its owners personality, and what you should do about it. Having […]
January 4, 2019sleep, life hacks, Curiosity Daily Episodes

Become an Early Riser, How Temperature Affects Sound, and Do We See the Same Colors?

Learn about how you can become an early riser; whether we all see the same colors; and why sound carries farther on cold days. In this podcast, Cody Gough and […]
December 14, 2018history, sleep, business, Curiosity Daily Episodes

Science-Based Tips for Better Meetings, Dinosaur Mythbusting, and Staying Awake for 11 Days

Learn about 12 science-based tips for better meetings; common dinosaur myths you should stop believing; and what happened when 17-year-old Randy Gardner stayed awake for 11 days, for science. In […]
October 16, 2018astronomy, space, biology, life hacks, Curiosity Daily Episodes

Moonmoons, Why You Get Sick When Seasons Change, and a Quiz Measuring Forgiveness

Learn how moons can have their own moons called moonmoons; how to tell whether you’re a forgiving person; and why you get sick when the seasons change. In this podcast, […]
October 9, 2018history, physics, Curiosity Daily Episodes

Measuring Your FOMO, Tashirojima “Cat Island,” and the Man Who Put His Head Inside A Particle Accelerator (and Survived!)

Learn about the real effects of FOMO, and how you can measure your fear of missing out; the story of Anatoli Bugorski, a Russian scientist who put his head inside […]
September 12, 2018history, astronomy, space, business, Curiosity Daily Episodes

Saturn’s Hexagon Hurricane, Planned Obsolescence, and Kaizen for Continuous Improvement

Learn about a hexagon-shaped hurricane on Saturn; a Japanese philosophy of continuous improvement; and why products are only built to last for a few years. In this podcast, Cody Gough […]
May 3, 2018Curiosity Daily Episodes

Incompetent Boss Traits, a Backyard Volcano, and Meditation’s Lasting Brain Boost

Curiosity Daily hosts Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories from Curiosity.com to help you learn something new in just a few minutes: This Is the Trait That […]