Curiosity Daily Podcast: Loving Your Job May Lead to Unethical Behavior, Bumblebees Bite Plants to Make Them Bloom, and Jupiter’s Moons Formed from Specks of Dust

Episode Show Notes:

When pollen is scarce, bumblebees bite plants to force them to flower by Cameron Duke

• Daley, J. (2020, May 21). Bumblebees Bite Plants to Force Them to Flower (Seriously). Scientific American. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bumblebees-bite-plants-to-force-them-to-flower-seriously/
• Miller-Rushing, A. J., Høye, T. T., Inouye, D. W., & Post, E. (2010). The effects of phenological mismatches on demography. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 365(1555), 3177–3186. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2010.0148
• Pashalidou, F. G., Lambert, H., Peybernes, T., Mescher, M. C., & De Moraes, C. M. (2020). Bumble bees damage plant leaves and accelerate flower production when pollen is scarce. Science, 368(6493), 881–884. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aay0496
• When plant pollen scarce, bumblebees biting leaves causes flowers to bloom early. (n.d.). EurekAlert! Retrieved May 27, 2020, from https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-05/aaft-wpp051820.php

Loving your job too much might lead to unethical behavior by Kelsey Donk

• The dark side of job engagement. (2019, July 9). The Behaviorist. https://www.behaviorist.biz/oh-behave-a-blog/job-engagement
• When Does Work Engagement Lead to Harmful Outcomes? (2019, June 8). Ioatwork.com. https://www.ioatwork.com/does-work-engagement-lead-to-harmful-outcomes/
• Wang, L., Law, K. S., Zhang, M. J., Li, Y. N., & Liang, Y. (2019). It’s mine! Psychological ownership of one’s job explains positive and negative workplace outcomes of job engagement. Journal of Applied Psychology, 104(2), 229–246. https://doi.org/10.1037/apl0000337

Jupiter's largest moons each built themselves up from a single grain of dust by Grant Currin

• Naone, E. (2020, May 18). Jupiter’s Largest Moons Might Have Formed From Dust. Discover Magazine; Discover Magazine. https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/astronomers-re-create-the-formation-of-jupiters-galilean-moons
• ‌In Depth | Jupiter Moons – NASA Solar System Exploration. (2019, December 19). NASA Solar System Exploration. https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/moons/jupiter-moons/in-depth/
• Batygin, K., & Morbidelli, A. (2020). Formation of Giant Planet Satellites. The Astrophysical Journal, 894(2), 143. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab8937

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