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Curiosity Daily Podcast: Wash Your Towels and Sheets More Often, Immortality’s Math Problem, and Australia’s Pink Lakes

Learn about the scientific reason why Australia has bubblegum pink lakes; why immortality is mathematically impossible; and how often you should wash your sheets, towels, and basically everything you own.

January 22, 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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Scientists Are Resurrecting the Tasmanian Tiger from Extinction

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Are Whale Sharks Now the World’s Largest Omnivore?

A new study finds that whale sharks are the biggest omnivore, disproving previous research on whale sharks’ diets. Researchers were stunned when analyzing whale shark biopsy samples that contained lots of plant material as well as krill material.

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Curiosity Daily Podcast: How Vaccines in Africa Protect Everyone in the World (w/ Paul Duprex), and Semantic Satiation

Learn from virologist Paul Duprex how vaccines in developing countries in places like Africa and southeast Asia actually make you safer, and how modern medicine could some day completely eliminate the measles. Duprex is the director of the Center for Vaccine Research at the University of Pittsburgh and a professor of microbiology and cellular genetics.

Curiosity Daily Podcast: Natural vs. Artificial Ingredients, Why the Return Trip Feels Shorter, and Africa Splitting in Half

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The World’s Deadliest Bird Used to be a Pet

Scientists found cassowary eggshells in New Guinea showing the lethal bird was being domesticated 18,000 years ago.