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16 Psyche, Xenotransplantation, Ocean Waves Become a Rave
Today, you’ll learn about a metallic object in space that might be worth seven hundred quintillion dollars, how genetically engineered pig hearts could save tons of human lives and how bioluminescent
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The award-winning Curiosity Daily podcast from Curiosity.com will help you get smarter about the world around you — every day. In less than 10 minutes, you’ll get a unique mix of research-based life h
From the Archives: Where Does Mold Come From?
This episode originally aired on 4/3/2020. New episodes coming soon. Learn about the shocking prevalence of torture scenes in movies; why durian, the world’s smelliest fruit, smells so bad; and wher
From the Archives: Where Dogs Get Their Personalities
This episode originally aired on 10/4/2019. New episodes coming soon. Learn about how dogs’ personalities are rooted in their DNA; one skill that doesn’t get worse as you get older; and how your sen
From the Archives: Why You Yawn During Exercise
This episode originally aired on 2/28/2020. New episodes coming soon. Learn about how quitting smoking may reawaken healthy cells; how researchers figured out how to tell the age of crime scene fing
From the Archives: A Brain-Training Task to Reduce Motion Sickness
This episode originally aired on 11/5/2020. New episodes coming soon. Learn about a simple brain-training task that may reduce motion sickness, what parasites found in medieval human remains can tel
From the Archives: Do People Think in Words or Pictures?
This episode originally aired on 2/21/2020. New episodes coming soon. Learn about whether people think in words or in pictures; why brussels sprouts really are tastier than they used to be; and why
Why You Should Reveal Your Failures, WASP-12b, Tulip Mania
Learn about why successful people should reveal their failures; the death of planet WASP-12b; and Dutch “tulip mania.” A Reason to Reveal Your Failures by Kelsey Donk HBS Working Knowledge. (2018, December 11). Why Managers Should Reveal Their Failures.
Linguistic Laws in Nature and Fatherless Condor Chicks from Parthenogenesis
Learn about linguistic “laws” that also show up in nature; and how two California condors were born without fathers. Linguistic "laws" like Zipf’s law of abbreviation and Menzerath’s law also show up in biology, geography, and more by Grant Currin Jonny