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Curiosity Daily Podcast: NASA’s New Planet-Hunting Telescope, the Light Triad, and Where You Spend Your Time

Learn about where NASA’s new planet-hunting telescope is looking for life first; the number of places where people spend most of their time; and, the new “Light Triad” of personality traits.

April 23, 2019

Episode Show Notes:

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:

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Curiosity Daily Podcast: 3M’s 2019 State of Science Index (w/ Jayshree Seth) and How You Can Name Jupiter’s Moons

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Curiosity Daily Podcast: The Smells That Existed Before Earth (w/ Harold McGee)

Learn about why your dog might be lying about its size and how physicists just achieved room-temperature superconductivity for the first time. But first, food science expert Harold McGee is back to talk about the smells that existed before Earth did.

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