![](http://discovery.sndimg.com/content/dam/images/discovery/editorial/podcasts/Curiosity/CuriosityPodcase_1400x1400CoverArtv4.png.rend.hgtvcom.616.616.suffix/1647967304243.png)
Curiosity Daily Podcast: Pets Can Be Allergic to You, Why Insecure People Brag, and an Algorithm’s Science Discovery
Learn about how an algorithm made new scientific discoveries by reading old studies; how your pets can be allergic to you; and, how the psychological theory of symbolic self-completion explains why insecure people brag so much.
August 30, 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:
- An Algorithm Made New Scientific Discoveries by Reading Old Studies — https://curiosity.im/31QOY4z
- Your Pets Can Be Allergic to You — https://curiosity.im/2KouslL
- This Psychological Theory Explains Why Insecure People Brag So Much — https://curiosity.im/31H6jgm
Download the FREE 5-star Curiosity app for Android and iOS at https://curiosity.im/podcast-app. And Amazon smart speaker users: you can listen to our podcast as part of your Amazon Alexa Flash Briefing — just click “enable” here: https://curiosity.im/podcast-flash-briefing.
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Next Up
Curiosity Daily: Asteroid-eating Fungi, Psychedelic…Maybe, Printing Organs
Today, you’ll learn about mushrooms that can eat asteroids to make space soil, how our thoughts affect us as we microdose psychedelics, and efforts to 3D print organs like kidneys and lungs!
Curiosity Daily Podcast: Hacking Device, Designer Seaweed, Accent Exposure
We discuss the latest in phone hacking technology, how aquaculture may be able to help the global food crisis, and how engaging with people who speak in a foreign accent may help us retain language.
Curiosity Daily Podcast:The Myth of Man Flu, Arctic Lakes, Buzzing Bats
Let’s talk about whether “man flu” is fact or fiction, how the Arctic lakes just threw a curveball at our climate change projections, and the genius new way bats are tricking their predators.
Curiosity Daily Podcast: Reverse Aging, Cooperation Increase, Time & Covid
Today we explore a potential scientific fountain of youth, how cooperation among strangers has, contrary to popular belief, actually increased in recent years, and how the pandemic has caused the perception of time distortion.
Curiosity Daily Podcast: Magic Addiction Fix, Parkinson’s Detection, Wind Turbines
Today we talk about how psilocybin from magic mushrooms can help those struggling with alcohol addiction, a new device that can detect Parkinson’s disease from breathing patterns, and how we can recycle wind turbines.
Curiosity Daily: Fry Flying, Gas Giants at Home, Entangled Atoms
Today we are discussing new sustainable fuels for airplanes, creating other worldly heat at home, and a new record for quantum entanglement.
Curiosity Daily Podcast: VR & Transcendence, Stonehenge Calendar, Pregnant With Covid
We discuss how VR is as effective as psychedelics at helping people reach transcendence, whether Stonehenge may have been an ancient calendar, and how COVID-19 has affected women in late pregnancy.
Curiosity Daily Podcast: Bee Venom Kills Cancer, Giant Manatees, Monkey Masturbation
Our stories today discuss how bee venom can potentially help fight cancer, the history of manatees, and recent discoveries in how monkeys use tools.
Curiosity Daily Podcast: Dating App Data, Mass Frog Grave, Cure for Colorblind
Let’s talk about how dating apps stress us out, the discovery of a massive ancient frog grave, and how gene therapy can potentially cure colorblindness.
Curiosity Daily Podcast: Undead Spiders, Dandelion Drones, Dark Energy Made Light
Researchers are making small claws out of dead spiders, dandelion seeds are inspiring scientists to mimic their distribution with small sensors to be able to better track ecological information, and the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument is helping us create a 3D map of the universe.