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Curiosity Daily Podcast: Multitasking Is Impossible, How A Flat Earth Would Even Work, and Nearly Every Country’s Name Origin

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Learn how a flat Earth would even work; why multitasking is impossible, and what you should do instead; and the four things that nearly every country on Earth is named after.

Curiosity Daily Podcast: Why You’d Choose Your Biases Over Money, Coldest Inhabited Place on Earth, and Dark Fluid

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Learn about why your biases are so strong, you’d choose them over making money; a new theory that “dark fluid” might mean that dark matter and dark energy are the same weird substance; and Oymyakon, one of the coldest places on Earth where people continuously live.

Curiosity Daily Podcast: Prince Rupert’s Drop, Why Earth’s Core Is Younger Than Its Surface, and Newborn Babies May Be Super Smart

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Learn why a Prince Rupert’s drop is both super-fragile and virtually unbreakable; why researchers think newborn babies are a lot smarter than they look; and why Earth’s core is younger than its surface.

Space Launch LIVE Discussion Guide

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Tune into Discovery Channel and use this companion discussion guide to spark meaningful conversation about the next era of space flight. Stream SPACE LAUNCH LIVE on discovery+.

Curiosity Daily Podcast: Why Some People Can’t Recognize Faces, Weight-Lifting Strengthens Your Nerves Too, and Why Earth’s Core Doesn’t Melt

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Learn about why you might feel stronger after just one workout; why the Earth’s core doesn’t melt, even though it’s so hot; and prosopagnosia, the surprising neurological condition of face blindness.

Curiosity Daily Podcast: Why Women Feel More Pain than Men, Why Toothpaste Makes Food Taste Bad, and Earth Formed Way Faster Than We Thought

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Learn about why things taste bad after you brush your teeth; a new discovery about how fast the Earth formed that may mean good things about life in the universe; and why women may experience more pain than men.

Curiosity Daily Podcast: Your Wounds Heal Faster in the Daytime, Only Tame Foxes on Earth, and the Peter Principle

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Learn about why your wounds heal faster in the daytime; the Peter Principle, which explains why so much goes wrong; and why there’s one tame population of foxes on Earth, and what they’ve taught us about evolution.

Curiosity Daily Podcast: Pretzel History, How Earth Got Its Water, Runner’s High Origins, and Words Named After People

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Learn about where the water on Earth might have come from; the surprising history of the pretzel, including the monk who invented it; words you probably didn’t know are named after people; and where “runner’s high” comes from, and whether it’s genetic.

Curiosity Daily Podcast: Earth’s Core Growing Lopsided and the Science of Gut Feelings

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Learn how to tap into your “gut feeling,” which knows more than you think it does; and why Earth's core is growing lopsided.

NASA's Biggest 2021 Milestones

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From making history on Mars to supersonic aircraft, NASA continues to astound us with science from this past year.

Curiosity Daily Podcast: Mars Opportunity Rover Update, Sunscreen SPF Meanings, Turning Carbon Dioxide into Fuel

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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:

Curiosity Daily Podcast: Stanford Technique for Picking Creative Ideas, Why Whales Are So Big (But Not Bigger), and the First Medical Diagnosis and Treatment in Space from Earth

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Learn about how doctors on Earth diagnosed and treated an astronaut’s medical problem in space for the first time; a new study that explains why whales are so big, but not bigger; and a Stanford technique for getting better at picking creative ideas.

Curiosity Daily Podcast: Keeping Secrets Makes Life Harder, Emotions Change Your Perception of Time, and How We Proved the Earth Rotates

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Learn how keeping secrets can literally weigh you down; how we knew the Earth rotates before we had space travel thanks to the Foucault pendulum; and how your emotions can alter your perception of time.

Curiosity Daily Podcast: Why Asthma Gets Worse at Night, Earth’s Largest Living Thing

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Learn about a heroic experiment that helps explain asthma getting worse at night; and the largest living thing on earth.

We Might Smell Life Before We See It

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It’s a tough game to determine if a distant planet orbiting some nameless star hosts life on it or not. You can’t just walk up to it and start flipping over rocks or poking into the dirt. You can only use your telescopes, and the planets are so extremely distant that you can’t see the surface itself.

Curiosity Daily Podcast: Measure Your Beliefs About the World, the Overview Effect, and a Mercury-Spewing Fountain

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Learn about how the overview effect changes your perspective when you leave Earth; why the Calder Mercury Fountain in Barcelona pumps out pure liquid mercury; and, how researchers came up with a set of core beliefs that measure how you feel about the world.

Curiosity Daily Podcast: The Habitable Epoch, Mars 2020’s Search for Life, and 4 Research-Based Personality Types

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Learn about why the universe may have been teeming with life billions of years ago; why NASA’s Mars 2020 Martian rover mission is going to be a huge milestone; and four personality types people fit into, according to new research.

Curiosity Daily Podcast: International Internet Languages (w/ Gretchen McCulloch), Chances of Rain, and Mars in Spain

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Learn about how you can go on a simulated mission to Mars (in Spain); and, what the weather forecast really means when it says there’s a chance of rain. You’ll also learn about how people around the world talk differently online, with internet linguist Gretchen McCulloch.