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Wordsmith Lynne Franklin, author of "Getting Others To Do What You Want," explains the psychology of persuasion on this episode of the Curiosity Podcast. As a consultant to executives and teams on persuasive communication, she studies how the brain affects our choices and behavior to help people solve their problems and get what they want. Plus, learn how Curiosity Podcast listeners can get special pricing AND free shipping on any order from Lovepop plus $30 off your first week of HelloFresh using promo code CURIOSITY. More from Curiosity: Special pricing AND free shipping on any order from Lovepop For $30 off your first week of HelloFresh, enter promo code CURIOSITY Learning Styles Don't Exist Mirror Neurons Activate With Your Actions And The Actions Of Others You Can't Remember Names Because You're Not Paying Attention Extra Credit Question And Answer Additional resources discussed: Lynne Franklin Wordsmith "Getting Others To Do What You Want" All You Need to Know About the "Learning Styles" Myth, in Two Minutes | Wired 10 Cognitive Biases That Distort Your Thinking | Verywell Calming Your Brain During Conflict | Harvard Business Review "Just Listen: Discover the Secret to Getting Through to Absolutely Anyone" To learn more about this topic and many others, check out Curiosity.com, download our 5-star iOS or Android app, and join the conversation on Facebook and Twitter. Subscribe on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play Music, and everywhere else podcasts are found so you don't miss an episode!

On this episode, we explore what you can learn about a person based on handwriting alone. A handwriting analyst for more than 30 years, Dale Roberts of Write Insights analyzed the handwriting of the Curiosity staff and joined us on the podcast to explain his process.  Play along at home while you listen! Write the sentence "I'm truly happy to be here today at the party" in print and in cursive, then follow along during the episode to analyze your handwriting and decide for yourself how accurate it is. Among other things, co-author of "Handwriting Analysis 101" Dale Roberts discusses: Why handwriting analysis works and why people are skeptical of its effectiveness. The upper, middle, and lower "zones" of handwriting analysis and what they can tell you about a writer's personality. How to identify specific personality traits, including but not limited to: the strength of your relationship with your parents; how skeptical, risk-averse, ambitious, or motivated you are; whether a person is stubborn, outspoken, frugal, detail-oriented, or dislikes being in big crowds; and how men and women feel about the opposite sex. Plus, find out how Curiosity Podcast listeners can get $30 off your first week of HelloFresh, and check out the HyperX Cloud Alpha headset, to help support the Curiosity Podcast. Special offers for Curiosity Podcast listeners: For $30 off your first week of HelloFresh, enter promo code CURIOSITY Buy The HyperX Cloud Alpha headset How the HyperX Cloud Alpha Solves Gaming Headsets' Muddy Bass Problem More from Curiosity.com: What Does Einstein's Handwriting Tell Us About His Personality? Taking Notes? Science Says You Should Skip The Electronics And Write By Hand The Barnum Effect Is Why This Article Knows Exactly What Kind Of Person You Are Should We Kill Cursive? The Longest System Of Recreational Paths In The World Additional resources discussed: Write Insights "Handwriting Analysis 101" Paper Personality -- Barry Beyerstein All About Graphology | Skeptoid Podcast Do differences in sex hormones affect handwriting style? Evidence from digit ratio and sex role identity as determinants of the sex of handwriting Bad Handwriting: A Gender Thing? What Does a Certified Forensic Document Examiner Do? Which Presidents Were Left-Handed?

If you want to be comfortable in any situation, then you just need to know and remember how to behave. Manners and etiquette aren't just for snobs! Etiquette expert Jihan Murray-Smith joins the Curiosity Podcast this week to explain the guidelines behind proper etiquette in any situation. Whether you're at a family dinner, business lunch, or first date, you'll want to listen so you can act with confidence in any social situation. As founder of the etiquette and public speaking consulting firm Tea & Crumpets, Jihan Murray-Smith has been facilitating workshops on college campuses, high schools, elementary schools for 15 years. To learn more about this topic and many others, check out Curiosity.com, download our 5-star iOS or Android app, and join the conversation on Facebook and Twitter. Subscribe on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play Music, and everywhere else podcasts are found so you don't miss an episode! Links to special offers for our listeners: Get $50 off a Full Havenly Design package with promo code CURIOSITY Start your one free month of The Great Courses Plus (Special for Curiosity Podcast listeners) More from Curiosity: 5 Etiquette Tips to Help You Thrive In Any Social Situation These Easy Tips Will Instantly Up Your Table Manners Communicate Like A Mind Reader (Podcast) Sorry — Pop Music Sounds The Same Because You Want It That Way Keep Conversations Flowing With The FORD Method Don't You Dare Double Dip Those Chips! Additional resources discussed: Tea & Crumpets Chicago: Etiquette, Public Speaking & Job-Readiness Renaissance Table Etiquette and the Origins of Manners Would you give up your seat for a pregnant woman? Put a Fork in It (Slate) The Effects of Mere Exposure on Liking for Edible Substances

Are hackers really a constant threat, or is hacking just another tool for media manipulation and fearmongering? To get definitive answers, the Curiosity Podcast sat down with the deputy chief of research at the Army Cyber Institute at West Point, Dr. Natalie Vanatta. She explains what government and corporate entities are doing to keep the average person safe online – and how people can protect themselves. Plus: learn where the international community draws the line between warfare and cyber-warfare. A lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army and instructor of mathematics at the United States Military Academy, Dr. Vanatta's work at the Army Cyber Institute focuses on bringing private industry, academia, and government agencies together to explore and solve cyber challenges facing the U.S. Army in the next 3 to 10 years. Links to special offers for our listeners: Get $50 off a Full Havenly Design package with promo code CURIOSITY Start your one free month of The Great Courses Plus (Special for Curiosity Podcast listeners) Related stories on Curiosity.com: Remember More Passwords by Visualizing Them How To Cool A Quantum Computer Is This The Future Of Money? How Quantum Technology Is Making Computers Millions Of Times More Powerful What Makes A Good Computer Password? (Probably Not What You've Been Told) How Hackers Really Crack Your Passwords You Can Use the Eisenhower Method to Stop Wasting Time and be More Productive Additional resources discussed: Army Cyber Institute at West Point Arizona State University Threatcasting Lab Shmoocon 2017 | A Widening Attack Plain - Natalie Vanatta, Brian David Johnson (YouTube) United Nations Definition of Aggression Defining War in an Ill-Defined World (New York Times) DOD needs cyberwarriors so badly it may let skilled recruits skip boot camp (Ars Technica) CyberCorps: Scholarship For Service (SFS) COACH: Crash Override's Automated Cybersecurity Helper To learn more about this topic and many others, check out Curiosity.com, download our 5-star iOS or Android app, and join the conversation on Facebook and Twitter. Subscribe on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play Music, and everywhere else podcasts are found so you don't miss an episode!

CRISPR technology could change the world. Essentially, CRISPR is a technique that allows scientists to make precision edits to any DNA, whether bacterial or human. The potential for this technology is huge: if scientists have the accuracy to replace just a few faulty genes, it might be possible to cure genetic disorders as serious as cystic fibrosis and Huntington's disease and as common as lactose intolerance and color-blindness. Dr. Sam Sternberg, CRISPR expert and protein-RNA biochemist, joins the Curiosity Podcast to explain the science, ethics, and future of this cutting-edge technology. Samuel H. Sternberg, PhD, will be starting his own research laboratory at Columbia University in early 2018, as an assistant professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics. Along with Jennifer Doudna, he is the co-author of A Crack in Creation, a popular science book about the discovery, development, and applications of CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing technology. More from Curiosity: Get $50 off a Full Havenly Design package with promo code CURIOSITY Start your one free month of The Great Courses Plus (Special for Curiosity Podcast listeners) Scientists Trimmed the Fat by Genetically Engineering Leaner Pigs What Is CRISPR, And How Does It Work? Scientists Are Only Just Beginning To Discover What Causes Gray Hair Scientists Turn To This Film To Make People Cry Additional resources discussed: Samuel H. Sternberg, PhD official website "A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution" "Gattaca" (1997 film starring Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman) 'Three-parent baby' claim raises hopes — and ethical concerns (Nature) Genome-editing revolution: My whirlwind year with CRISPR (Jennifer Doudna's article in Nature) Useful Mutants, Bred With Radiation (New York Times) Sorry Hipsters, That Organic Kale Is a Genetically Modified Food (Smithsonian) Gene Editing Makes Cows Without Horns (Popular Science) Ben Mezrich's Woolly Mammoth Book Being Adapted Into Movie by Fox "Woolly: The True Story of the Quest to Revive One of History's Most Iconic Extinct Creatures" How to Extract DNA from a Strawberry (YouTube) 23andMe direct-to-consumer genetic testing Neutron-Star Collision Reveals Origin of Gold, Astronomers Say (Live Science) Astronomers Strike Gravitational Gold In Colliding Neutron Stars (NPR)To learn more about this topic and many others check out Curiosity.com, download our 5-star iOS or Android app and join the conversation on Facebook and Twitter. Subscribe on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play Music, and everywhere else podcasts are found so you don't miss an episode!

Modern medicine can do extraordinary things – but how? This week, the Curiosity Podcast welcomes Dr. Sliman Bensmaia to explain how scientists are able to develop prosthetic devices that some day may be able to transmit a realistic sense of touch to their owners. An assistant professor in the Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy at the University of Chicago, Dr. Bensmaia discusses how lab is working on cutting edge technology, and what's in store for the future of prosthetics. The Bensmaia Lab studies how the peripheral and central nervous systems represent the world around us. Dr. Bensmaia's research has led to groundbreaking insights about how we perceive objects and textures through the sense of touch, and may one day lead to prosthetic devices that completely restore a realistic sense of touch for amputees and tetraplegic patients.  More from Curiosity: For $30 off your first week of HelloFresh, enter promo code CURIOSITY Brain Machine Interfaces Can Predict A Bird's Next Song. Next Step: Human Speech. The Brain Famous For Being "Average" Jason Barnes Drums With A Musically Programmed Robotic Hand What's The Difference Between Early Birds And Night Owls? Additional resources discussed: Bensmaia Lab Bionic Touch Through a Brain Interface | Sliman Bensmaia | TEDxColumbiaCollegeChicago UChicago Discovery Series│'Brain Teasers: Cracking the Mind's Toughest Riddles' with Sliman Bensmaia Watch President Obama fist bump a robotic arm powered by a brain chipTo learn more about this topic and many others check out Curiosity.com, download our 5-star iOS or Android app and join the conversation on Facebook and Twitter. Subscribe on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play Music, and everywhere else podcasts are found so you don't miss an episode!

This week, the Curiosity Podcast welcomes the fascinating Bryan Davis to share his story. Davis owns and runs a distillery in Los Angeles, but it's not your typical distillery – he's found a way to change the chemical properties of rum to age it 20 years in just 6 days. And here's where things get interesting: he taught himself the science behind how to do it. Today's conversation isn't so much about what Bryan does as it is about how he got to where he is today. Listen to this episode to learn about history, organic chemistry, and business skills all wrapped into one captivating tale.  More reading from Curiosity: Start your one free month of The Great Courses Plus (Special for Curiosity Podcast listeners) Teach Yourself, Change The World The Strongest Beer Ever Made Is More Potent Than Whiskey The Pareto Principle Can Save You Time And Help You Achieve Your Goals Additional resources discussed: Lost Spirits Technology (website) Lost Spirits Distillery (website) The new spirit of innovation | Bryan Davis | TEDxBermuda Time Out Los Angeles | This distillery tour is like a boozy theme park for adults The Telegraph | 10 vodkas put to the testTo learn more about this topic and many others check out Curiosity.com, download our 5-star iOS or Android app and join the conversation on Facebook and Twitter. Subscribe on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play Music, and everywhere else podcasts are found so you don't miss an episode!

Comedy comes in many forms, each with its own history and style. And while it may be subjective, there's still some surprising science that makes comedy what it is today. This week on the Curiosity Podcast, we talk to long-time performer and teacher Lilly Allison, an expert with a firm grasp on the history and psychology of comedy. In this episode, she explains and demonstrates comedic devices in front of a live audience at the 2017 Chicago Podcast Festival. Lilly has been involved with comedy since she was 14 yrs old. She has studied, taught, and performed improv with several organizations, including 3 years of traveling with The Second City National Touring Company. In addition to teaching stand-up and improv comedy classes, she also hosts "A Lill Annoyance Stand Up Show" series at The Annoyance Theatre in Chicago. More reading from Curiosity: Start your one free month of The Great Courses Plus (Special for Curiosity Podcast listeners) The Mandela Effect Is When Groups Have The Same False Memories The Spotlight Effect Explains Why We Think Everyone Notices A Stain On Our Shirt This Animal's Laughter Is Contagious Boost Your Metabolism While You Sleep Additional resources discussed: Lilly Allison's bio Benign Violation Theory Sumerians cracked world's oldest joke "Come On And Slam" Space Jam Subreddit To learn more about this topic and many others check out Curiosity.com, download our 5-star iOS or Android app and join the conversation on Facebook and Twitter. Subscribe on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play Music, and everywhere else podcasts are found so you don't miss an episode!

Not all music is created equally. You may love the soundtrack of your favorite film, television show, or video game just as much as you enjoy Beethoven's 9th, but you may not know how deliberately the score from your favorite form of entertainment was composed. Elliot Callighan, independent composer and sound designer, joins the Curiosity Podcast to reveal how musicians in the 21st century write for media that didn't even exist when most of history's greatest composers were alive. Elliot Calligan is a classically trained violinist and pianist, metal guitarist and electronic music enthusiast, a Soundpost Co-Chair for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Overture Council, and an adjunct faculty member in the Film & Game programs at DePaul University. His work has been featured in campaigns for United Airlines, The Chicago Advertising Federation, GMC, The Godrej Group, Chevrolet Motors, The Goodman Theatre as well as many independent films and games.  More reading from Curiosity: Meet the Man Who Scored Your Childhood Sorry — Pop Music Sounds The Same Because You Want It That Way Got A Ghost Problem? It Might Just Be Infrasound Music Can Change The Taste of Food Rhnull, The Rarest Blood Type On Earth, Has Been Called The "Golden Blood" Additional resources discussed: Ramova Music, Elliot's web site Native Instruments Komplete 11 Software Suite Spectrasonics Omnisphere 2 Newzoo Global Games Market Report MPAA Theatrical Market Statistics 2016 Report High Score: How Video Games are Offering New Opportunities to Composers, Producers and Orchestras National Endowment for the Arts Research Report #58, January 2015 Musical chord preference: cultural or universal? Data from a native Amazonian society Your culture—not your biology—shapes your musical tasteTo learn more about this topic and many others check out Curiosity.com, download our 5-star iOS or Android app and join the conversation on Facebook and Twitter. Subscribe on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play Music, and everywhere else podcasts are found so you don't miss an episode!

Renowned skeptic Dr. Steven Novella, host of The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe and author of the NeuroLogica Blog, joins the Curiosity Podcast to explain how to tell the difference between reality and fantasy – and why it's sometimes hard to do so. He brings years of experience as a neuroscientist and researcher to take a look inside the minds of both skeptics and those who believe in pseudoscience and conspiracy theories. Dr. Novella is an academic neurologist at Yale University School of Medicine. In addition to his work on The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe podcast, he is the president and co-founder of the New England Skeptical Society. His NeuroLogica science blog covers news and issues in neuroscience, but also general science, scientific skepticism, philosophy of science, critical thinking, and the intersection of science with the media and society. More from Curiosity: Start your one free month of The Great Courses Plus (Special for Curiosity Podcast listeners) Motivated Reasoning Is Why You Can't Win An Argument Using Facts This Airport Is The Unassuming Home To Countless Conspiracies Hey Sleepy Drivers, Don't Count On These Two Things To Keep You Awake More from Steven Novella: The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe New England Skeptical Society NeuroLogica blog Additional resources discussed: "The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion" The Skeptic Movement Why Is There a Skeptical Movement? Carl Sagan's Life and Legacy as Scientist, Teacher, and Skeptic Science Curiosity and Political Information Processing (Study) Bill Nye Had a Fixed View on GMOs. Then Something Happened.To learn more about this topic and many others check out Curiosity.com, download our 5-star iOS or Android app and join the conversation on Facebook and Twitter. Subscribe on iTunes, Stitcher, SoundCloud, Google Play Music, and everywhere else podcasts are found so you don't miss an episode!

The institution of marriage in America appears to be struggling. Or is it? Dr. Eli Finkel's most recent research reveals that the best marriages today may in fact be the best marriages the world has ever known. A renowned relationship expert, Dr. Finkel joins the Curiosity Podcast to reveal the structure of successful marriages and explain the context needed to understand how to flourish in any serious long-term relationship.  Dr. Eli Finkel, author of The All-or-Nothing Marriage, is a professor at Northwestern University, where he has appointments in the psychology department and the Kellogg School of Management. He has published more than 130 scientific articles and is a regular contributor to the Op-Ed page of The New York Times. More reading from Curiosity: The Past, Present, And Future Of Dating (Dr. Finkel's first appearance on the Curiosity Podcast) The 1950s Family Was A New Invention The More Choices You Have, The Less Happy You Are Richard Branson's Secret To Productivity And Success Is Simple Sharing Household Chores May Be The Key To A Happy Marriage You Can Find Your Soul Mate Online, But Dating Algorithms Won't Help More from Dr. Eli Finkel: Dr. Eli Finkel's website "The All-or-Nothing Marriage: How the Best Marriages Work" The Marriage Hack: Eli Finkel at TEDxUChicago "Self and Relationships: Connecting Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Processes" Additional resources discussed: Money Survey: 78% Still Think Men Should Pay for the First Date Who Pays? NerdWallet Study Finds Gender Roles Remain Strong Among Couples Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs "The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap" To learn more about this topic and many others check out Curiosity.com, download our 5-star iOS or Android app and join the conversation on Facebook and Twitter. Subscribe on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play Music, and everywhere else podcasts are found so you don't miss an episode!

The dating world has radically transformed over the last few decades. Combine advances in technology with radical changes in social roles and a rise in non-traditional relationships and sexual preferences, and you end up with a pretty confusing dating environment. Dr. Eli Finkel joins the Curiosity Podcast to discuss everything from one-night stands to Tinder to pickup artists – and everything in-between. Dr. Finkel is a social psychology professor who studies interpersonal attraction, marriage, conflict resolution, and more. He is the director of Northwestern University's Relationships and Motivation Lab and has published more than 130 scientific articles – primarily on relationships – as well as being a regular contributor to the Op-Ed page of The New York Times. More reading from Curiosity: You Can Find Your Soul Mate Online, But Dating Algorithms Won't Help The Most Important Object In Computer Graphics What Being "Facebook Official" Says About The Strength Of Your Relationship You're Lousy At Picking Good Pictures Of Yourself, So Ask A Stranger To Do It More from Dr. Eli Finkel: Dr. Eli Finkel's website Is Romantic Desire Predictable? Machine Learning Applied to Initial Romantic Attraction (Study) Can technology bring us true love? Eli Finkel at TEDxNorthwesternU 2014 "Self and Relationships: Connecting Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Processes" "The All-or-Nothing Marriage: How the Best Marriages Work" Additional resources discussed: Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Relationships Four Fallacies of Pop Evolutionary Psychology How evolutionary psychology gets evolution wrong Ashley Madison Hack: All Fun and Puritanical Games Until Somebody Gets Dead "More than Two: A Practical Guide to Ethical Polyamory" "Polyamory and Jealousy: A More Than Two Essentials Guide" "Opening Up: A Guide to Creating and Sustaining Open Relationships" "The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists" To learn more about this topic and many others check out Curiosity.com, download our 5-star iOS or Android app and join the conversation on Facebook and Twitter. Subscribe on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play Music, and everywhere else podcasts are found so you don't miss an episode!

Research isn't always conducted in a laboratory. Dr. Brian T. Murphy runs a research program that takes him all around the world collecting aquatic microorganisms, en route to the discovery and development of new antibiotics. On this podcast, Dr. Murphy explains how antibiotics work and the importance of discovering new ones, as well as detailing some of the exotic underwater adventures involved in his line of work. Ongoing projects in Dr. Murphy's lab merge the identification of small molecules with marine microbiology, molecular biology, genomics, and bioinformatics. To date, his lab has built a collection of over 1,500 aquatic bacteria and are using them to generate small molecule libraries that they screen against bacterial pathogens and cancers. The lab is also innovating the way drug discovery libraries are managed to make them more intuitive and efficient.  More reading from Curiosity: Crowdsourcing Offers A New Hope For Antibiotics Research Fish Don't Get Electrocuted Thanks To These Two Factors Why Are Most Planes White? The Reasons Are Scientific And Economical Could Magnets Take The Place Of Antibiotics When It Comes To Sepsis? What A Giant Petri Dish Can Tell Us About Antibiotic Resistance There Have Been Zero New Types Of Antibiotics Since The '80s Antibiotics research crowdsourcing programs: Great Lakes Freshwater Sponge Ecology And Drug-Discovery (Murphy Lab project) University of Oklahoma's Citizen Science Soil Collection Program Drugs from Dirt (US) Swab and Send (UK) Small World InitiativeAdditional scientific resources discussed: Murphy Lab UIC website Current Murphy Lab projects Feature on Murphy Lab in Toronto Star Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation TB Alliance Murphy Lab on TwitterTo learn more about this topic and many others check out Curiosity.com, download our 5-star iOS or Android app and join the conversation on Facebook and Twitter. Subscribe on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play Music, and everywhere else podcasts are found so you don't miss an episode!

The human voice is the oldest musical instrument. But how exactly does it work? Voice training is a lot more complicated than you might think, and in this podcast, opera singer Matthan Ring Black discusses why. A baritone with decades of experience as a performer, Matthan gets into the science behind how the human voice works, with some bonus insights into the worlds of vocal pedagogy and opera. Matthan has performed in several Chicago premieres, including the world premiere of Gregory Spears’ Jason and the Argonauts with the Lyric Opera of Chicago’s Lyric Unlimited. He is also a founding member of Chicago Fringe Opera and is collaborating with composer Ross Crean for the international recording of his new opera, The Great God Pan.  More reading from Curiosity: Want To Sing Differently? Change The Way You Use Your Entire Body. The Part Of Your Body You Can't Strengthen These Are The Funniest Words In The English Language (According To Research) Anyone Can Learn To Sing Two Notes At Once Additional resources discussed: Matthan Ring Black's Website Doing The Work with Matthan Black (podcast) Chicago Fringe Opera Ross Crean: The Great God Pan Verdi's Rigoletto (DVD) The History of Opera audiobook To learn more about this topic and many others check out Curiosity.com, download our 5-star iOS or Android app and join the conversation on Facebook and Twitter. Subscribe on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play Music, and everywhere else podcasts are found so you don't miss an episode!

Astronomy isn't just about looking up at the sky. The Adler Planetarium's Michelle Nichols delves deep into the lessons that astronomy can teach us about our own world and gives an update on when (and why) we're hoping to finish the "race to Mars." Plus: the surprising relationship many scientists have with religion. As Director of Public Observing, Michelle leads the Adler Planetarium's various telescope and sky observing efforts, including the 'Scopes in the City telescope outreach program, free nighttime observing in the Doane Observatory via Doane at Dusk, Adler's telescope volunteer program, and much more.  More reading from Curiosity: What It Takes To Be An Astronaut The Overview Effect Describes How Leaving Earth Changes Your Perspective The 100 Year Starship's Effort To Make Interstellar Travel Possible Chaco Canyon: Views That Have Dazzled For Centuries Your Secret Weapon To Chill Beer Quickly Additional resources discussed: The Adler Planetarium website So you want to be an astronaut? Here's what it takes (USA Today) Eggplant (Solanum melongena) Domestication History and Genealogy Origins of the Potato Astronomy Lab for Kids: 52 Family-Friendly Activities (Lab Series) To learn more about this topic and many others check out Curiosity.com, download our 5-star iOS or Android app and join the conversation on Facebook and Twitter. Subscribe on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play Music, and everywhere else podcasts are found so you don't miss an episode!