Curiosity Daily

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 Way Your Eyes Move Can Predict Your Personality This Hilarious English Phrasebook Has Been in Publication Since the 1800s "English as She Is Spoke"  The Mysterious Battery That Has Lasted More Than 175 Years

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: For a Closer Parent-Child Bond, Listen to Music Together Noise-Canceling Windows Could Work Even When They're Open A Doctor Cracked His Knuckles for 50 Years to See If It Was Harmful

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: Trees May Have a "Heartbeat" If It Weren't For Samuel Morse's Grief, Long-Distance Communication Might Not Exist An Advanced Civilization Could Have Ruled Earth Millions of Years Ago, Says the Silurian Hypothesis

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: Why is NASA Going Back to the Moon Before Heading to Mars? Julie d'Aubigny Was A Bisexual 17th-Century Operatic Swordfighter Local Honey Won't Fix Your Seasonal Allergies

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: Reading Daily Can Actually Add a Year to Your Life Here's How Scientists Are Using Machine Learning to Predict the Unpredictable The Heartwarming Story of Indonesia's Chicken Church

Learn from some of our favorite expert guests about yoga, volcanoes, meditation, and more on this special episode of the Curiosity Podcast. You'll hear from accomplished authors and academics from past episodes, in addition to a special guest you've never heard before on the show. Plus, hear about the past, present, and future of the Curiosity Podcast. More from Curiosity: LINKEDIN: Get a $50 credit toward your first job post. Terms and conditions apply. BACKBLAZE: Fully featured 15-day free trial of unlimited cloud backup for your Mac or PC, which you can get for just $5/month What's the Best Way to Meditate? What Kind of Meditation Is Best for You? A Spirit Phone to Talk With The Dead Subscribe to email updates from Curiosity Curiosity Daily Alexa Flash Briefing Skill Additional podcasts from Curiosity: The Limits of the Human Body May Be More Mental Than Physical (Curiosity Podcast with Alex Hutchinson) Natural Disasters Have Transformed How Scientists Communicate (Curiosity Podcast with Dr. Lucy Jones) Resilience Is the Key to Your Well-Being in a Constantly Changing World (Curiosity Podcast with Dr. Rick Hanson) Playlist of all Curiosity Podcast episodes (including Curiosity Daily) Additional resources discussed: Alex Hutchinson's website "Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance" Champions of Zen: Inside the controversial world of competitive yoga | Racked How Tarot Cards Work | HowStuffWorks Dr. Lucy Jones' website "The Big Ones: How Natural Disasters Have Shaped Us (and What We Can Do About Them)" Dr. Rick Hanson's website "Resilient: How to Grow an Unshakable Core of Calm, Strength, and Happiness" Read more about the topics Cody asks Ashley about in the "Lightning Round" Curiosity Challenge: You Can Swim In Warm Pools Of This at Starkenberger's Castle 20 Percent of All Mammals on Earth "Count" Victor Lustig May Have Been The World's Smoothest Con Man Are You More Attractive When You're Drunk? Where Does The Word "Nerd" Come From? You Used To Be Able To Win A Gold Medal For... What?!

In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories from Curiosity.com to help you learn something new in just a few minutes: This Unpleasant Personality Trait May Earn You More Money This Is Why You Should Sleep in a Cold Bedroom Giant Sloths Once Ruled the Americas

In this podcast, 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 One Way Psychopath Brains Are Different, According to a Harvard Study Scientists Created a Holographic Brain Device That Can Create False Sensations You Won't Believe Why Cities Are Full of Squirrels Plus, you can read about Frederick Law Olmsted in the book "Devil in the White City" here: https://amzn.to/2L8WU9T

In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories from Curiosity.com to help you learn something new in just a few minutes: Is the Universe Conscious of Itself? These Baroque Portuguese Libraries Employ Bats for a Very Important Purpose Coffee Could Help You Tolerate the People You Work With Why You Should Leave Your Phone Out of the Bedroom Amazon Echo users: say "Alexa, play my flash briefing" to learn something new in just a few minutes every day when you activate the Curiosity Daily Flash Briefing skill: https://curiosity.im/podcast-flash-briefing

In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories from Curiosity.com to help you learn something new in just a few minutes: These "Sea Nomads" Have Supersized Spleens for Diving Project Blue Book Was the US Government's Official UFO Investigation Project J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies 10 Ways To Hack Your Cooking with Chemistry Amazon Echo users: say "Alexa, play my flash briefing" to learn something new in just a few minutes every day when you activate the Curiosity Daily Flash Briefing skill: https://curiosity.im/podcast-flash-briefing

In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories from Curiosity.com to help you learn something new in just a few minutes: True or False? The Daddy Longlegs is Poisonous, But Its Fangs Are Too Small to Bite You Advanced Alien Civilizations May Get Their Energy From a Dyson Sphere “Star Maker” by Olaf Stapledon You'll Have a Better Workout If You Exercise With a Partner Amazon Echo users: say "Alexa, play my flash briefing" to learn something new in just a few minutes every day when you activate the Curiosity Daily Flash Briefing skill: https://curiosity.im/podcast-flash-briefing

Kids get grounded for swearing, and bad words are banned from television... but why is that the case if most adults swear anyway? Linguist and cognitive scientist Benjamin K. Bergen says that swearing can be funny, cathartic, and even useful! In this rated-PG episode, he explains how the science of swearing can help us understand how our brains process language, and what the worst words tell us about our culture. And the episode is squeaky clean: no swearing included!  More from Curiosity: BACKBLAZE: Fully featured 15-day free trial of unlimited cloud backup for your Mac or PC, which you can get for just $5/month SKILLSHARE: Two months of unlimited access to more than 20 thousand classes for just 99 cents THRIVE MARKET: Get an extra 25% off your first order along with a free 30-day trial Swearing Can Literally Dull The Pain This 1785 Dictionary of Vulgar Phrases Is a Hilarious Collection of Bad Words from the Past The First Barcode Scanned Gravitational Lensing Is a Magnifying Glass Made by Gravity Additional resources from Dr. Benjamin Bergen: Benjamin K. Bergen, UC San Diego Department of Cognitive Science "What the F: What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves" "Louder Than Words: The New Science of How the Mind Makes Meaning"Other studies and resources discussed: Swearing, Euphemisms, and Linguistic Relativity | PLOS Effect of Manipulated State Aggression on Pain Tolerance | SAGE Journals Cursing and gender in a corpus of MySpace pages | Semantic Scholar Swearing in English: Bad Language, Purity and Power from 1586 to the Present | Google Books Gender, expletive use, and context: Male and female expletive use in structured and unstructured conversation among New Zealand university students | ProQuest

In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories from Curiosity.com to help you learn something new in just a few minutes:  These Are the Differences Between Men and Women Narcissists Whatever You Do, Don't Put Coffee Grounds in Your Garden This Is How Often You Should Clean Your Keyboard Amazon Echo users: say "Alexa, play my flash briefing" to learn something new in just a few minutes every day when you activate the Curiosity Daily Flash Briefing skill: https://curiosity.im/podcast-flash-briefing

In this podcast, 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 How Your Friendships Differ in Your 20s and 30s This Secret Airline Flies Nonstop to Area 51 Every Day These 4 Words Can Double Your Chances of Getting What You Want Amazon Echo users: say "Alexa, play my flash briefing" to learn something new in just a few minutes every day when you activate the Curiosity Daily Flash Briefing skill: https://curiosity.im/podcast-flash-briefing

Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories from Curiosity.com to help you learn something new in just a few minutes:  Scientists Have Finally Made an Everything-Repellent Coating This Is Where Most of the Lost Luggage in the US Ends Up Resonant Breathing Can Calm You Down In a Matter of Minutes