Curiosity Weekly

In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories from Curiosity.com — and talk to astrophysicist Katie Mack about black holes — to help you get smarter and learn something new in just a few minutes: Performing Meaningless Rituals Can Improve Your Self-Control There Are at Least 4 Ways a Black Hole Could Kill You What's The Difference Between Ice Cream, Gelato, Frozen Cust...

Today is the LAST DAY to vote in the 2018 Podcast Awards! Please help our show by nominating Curiosity Daily in the categories of People’s Choice, Education, and Science & Medicine. Just register at the link and select Curiosity Daily from each category’s drop-down menu. We really appreciate it! https://curiosity.im/podcast-awards-2018 In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the follo...

In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter and learn something new in just a few minutes: This Medical Breakthrough Might Be a Real-Life Hangover Cure People Have Been Seeing Strange Objects in the Sky for Millennia You Can Camp Where a Famous Hermit Lived for More Than 30 Years It’s your last chance to support us in the 20...

In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories — and discuss injury odds with the National Safety Council’s Ken Kolosh , manager of statistics — to help you get smarter and learn something new in just a few minutes: Reactance Is Why You Act Irrationally When Your Freedom Is Threatened Paying With a Credit Card Makes You Spend More Money These Are the 6 Best Cities for B...

In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter and learn something new in just a few minutes: Can You Tell Fake Laughter from Real Laughter? 6 Little-Known Signs You Might Be a Perfectionist You Can Explore the Outdoors for Science on a Scientific Field Expedition Want to support our show? Register for the 2018 Podcast Awards a...

In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter and learn something new in just a few minutes: We May Have Detected Liquid Water on Mars. How Wet Is the Red Planet? There May Be a Long-Lost Gold Mine In the Arizona Mountains You Can Sharpen Your Memory With the Zeigarnik Effect For more science-backed ways to sharpen your mind,...

In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter and learn something new in just a few minutes: The Longest Lunar Eclipse of the Century is Happening in Two Days Perceptual Creep Makes It Hard Not To Find What You're Looking For This Mental Trick Could Help You Finally Enjoy Running Want to support our show? Register for the 2018...

In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter and learn something new in just a few minutes: SKILLSHARE: Two months of unlimited access to more than 20 thousand classes for just 99 cents For an All-Natural Painkiller, Try Holding Your Partner's Hand Moonquakes Can Last for Hours, Which Doesn't Bode Well for a Lunar Base ASMR V...

In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories to help you get smarter and learn something new in just a few minutes: NASA Is Sending a Probe to the Sun. Here's How They Keep It From Melting Waking Up on the Wrong Side of the Bed Is Totally Real You know what's an important part of waking up on the right side of the bed? Getting some good sleep to begin with. Pick up "S...

In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories from Curiosity.com — and talk to theoretical astrophysicist Katie Mack about dark matter — to help you get smarter and learn something new in just a few minutes: How Many Digits of Pi Do We Actually Need? Spite Houses Are Buildings Designed to Annoy the Neighbors The Grit Scale Measures Your Passion and Perseverance More fr...

In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter and learn something new in just a few minutes: There's a Scientific Reason Open Offices Are So Quiet, and It's Not Good The First Men on the Moon Almost Didn't Make It There What Counts as a Fruit and What Counts as a Vegetable? It's Not What You Think Want to polish up your workpl...

In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter and learn something new in just a few minutes: This Simple Trick Keeps All Your Favorite Experiences Feeling Fresh and New If You Drop a Feather and a Neutron Star in a Vacuum, Which Lands First? Plus, Kristi in Pennsylvania asks: "Is water itself actually wet?" Here are the source...

In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter and learn something new in just a few minutes: 12 New Moons of Jupiter Have Just Been Discovered Here's Why You Should Rethink That Post-Workout Beer Can You Correctly Answer Elon Musk's Favorite Job Interview Question? For more on how to fuel your body for endurance, check out "Th...

In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter and learn something new in just a few minutes: This Beer Is Made With a Wine-Spoiling Yeast — And It's Delicious Teaching Yourself The History, Chemistry, And Business of Spirits [Full-Length Podcast] Scientists Used Hypnosis to Alter People's Memories The Emotion Regulation Questi...

In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter and learn something new in just a few minutes: LINKEDIN: Get $50 off your first job post. Terms and conditions apply. Why Do You Need Goggles to See Underwater? Science Says Don't Play Hard to Get The Past, Present, And Future Of Dating [Full-Length Podcast Interview with Dr. Eli F...

In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories from Curiosity.com — with some help from scientist, computer engineer, and philosophy writer Bernardo Kastrup — to help you get smarter and learn something new in just a few minutes: This Paper Suggests the Universe Has Dissociative Identity Disorder Bernardo Kastrup Profile Panpsychism Is the Belief That the Universe Is Co...

In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter and learn something new in just a few minutes: BACKBLAZE: Fully featured 15-day free trial of unlimited cloud backup for your Mac or PC, which you can get for just $5/month To Rekindle Your Romance, Science Says Look at Cute Animal Pictures Ashley’s cat’s Instagram account @agletis...

In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter and learn something new in just a few minutes: What Doing a Lot of Chores Says About Your Personality The Weird History of Ketchup You've Never Heard A New Study Shows Just How Damaging Helicopter Parenting Can Be Worried about your own relationship with your kids? Curb the urge to...

In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter and learn something new in just a few minutes: BACKBLAZE: Fully featured 15-day free trial of unlimited cloud backup for your Mac or PC, which you can get for just $5/month Stop Trying to Find Your Passion, Say Stanford Researchers — Do This Instead What's a Supermoon, Anyway? Ther...

In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter and learn something new in just a few minutes: SKILLSHARE: Two months of unlimited access to more than 20 thousand classes for just 99 cents Inversion Is a Thinking Technique Used By Billionaires Are We Living in a Computer Simulation? That's a Heated Debate This Nonprofit is Using...

In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter and learn something new in just a few minutes: High Heels Were Originally Meant for Men Taikhar Chuluu Is a Mongolian Landmark Featuring 1,500 Years of Graffiti The Copy Machine Study Shows That One Word Can Help You Get Your Way Much more impressive figures strode out of Mongolia...

In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories to help you get smarter and learn something new in just a few minutes: Self-Control Isn't Always Good for You The Red Baron Was a Real Person Who Absolutely Tore It Up in Battle Motivated Reasoning Is Why You Can't Win an Argument Using Facts Inside Pseudoscience And Conspiracy Theories [Podcast] Plus, hear how and why we s...

In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories to help you get smarter and learn something new in just a few minutes: Every Year, People in this English Town Risk Life and Limb to Chase a Wheel of Cheese You're a Totally Different Person in the Morning, According to this Massive Twitter Study You Can Enter an Altered State of Consciousness By Staring Into Someone's Eyes...

In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories to help you get smarter and learn something new in just a few minutes: For a Planet to Sustain Life, It Needs the Habitable Trinity Negative Lightning Is More Common, but Positive Lightning Is Way Worse Fake News Spreads Way Faster Than Real News Online Confirmation Bias Makes You Ignore What You Don't Agree With The Backfi...

In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories to help you get smarter and learn something new in just a few minutes: Want to Send a Supportive Text? Science Says You Should Play It Cool Benjamin Franklin's Daily Schedule for Productivity Was Rigorous Dogs Are More Afraid of Fireworks Than Gunshots, Thunderstorms, or Traffic Follow Curiosity Daily on your favorite podca...