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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: NASA's InSight Lander Mars Mission, the Chicken or the Egg, and Common Synesthesia

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Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories from Curiosity.com to help you learn something new in just a few minutes:

Curiosity Daily Podcast: Apes Say Hello, Life on Snowball Earth, Learn Twice as Fast

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Learn about non-human animals that say hello and goodbye; life on Snowball Earth; and how to learn skills twice as fast.

Curiosity Daily Podcast: Moviegoers Blink in Sync, Rain on the Sun, and Why Flamingos Stand on One Leg

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Learn about a new discovery about rain on the sun; why flamingos stand on one leg; and why you blink the way you do when you’re watching a movie.

Curiosity Daily Podcast: Exercising for Different Body Types, New England Vampire Panic, Non-Vertical List Benefits, and Constellations on Mars

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Learn about how your body type affects the way you should exercise; the New England Vampire Panic; what our constellations would look like if we saw them from Mars; and the benefits of writing a better, non-vertical list to organize your thoughts.

Curiosity Daily Podcast: How Music Affects Your Work, Damage from Muffled Hearing, and Earth’s Gigantic Atmosphere

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Learn about why the Earth’s atmosphere extends beyond the moon; whether you should listen to music while you work; and whether your muffled hearing after a concert means you damaged your ears.

Curiosity Daily Podcast: Beliefs That Boost Grades, Optimism for Better Sleep, and Planets More Habitable Than Earth

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Learn about why there could be planets even more habitable than Earth; an online class that boosted grades by changing students’ beliefs; and why optimism may lead to better sleep.

Curiosity Daily Podcast: How Loud Is the Sun?

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Learn about a simple way to reduce your internet carbon footprint; how brain images can make you more likely to believe fake science; and how loud the sun is.

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.

Curiosity Daily Podcast: Zero G Romance, Our Sixth Sense, Oinking at A.I.

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Today, you’ll learn about why studying human intimacy in space is necessary for humanity, the mysterious sixth sense human beings have, which is not seeing dead people, and how researchers used artificial intelligence to figure out a way to speak pig.

Curiosity Daily Podcast: Virtual Therapy vs. In-Person Therapy, How Redlining Deepened Segregation in US Cities, and Earth’s Drifting Magnetic Poles

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Learn about why you can blame redlining for US cities being so segregated; why Earth’s magnetic north pole is drifting every year; and how virtual therapy can be just as effective as in-person therapy.

Curiosity Daily Podcast: Water Detected on Mars, A Lost Arizona Goldmine, and Zeigarnik Effect Memory Sharpening

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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: Rice TV Screen, Satellite Warfare, Unraveled DNA

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Do you want to know about a new environmentally friendly way to make TV Screens, what future space warfare might look like, and how we have finally completely unraveled the human genome?

Thanksgiving Food from the ISS

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Josh Gates got his hands on what the astronauts on their way to the International Space Station are bringing with them for Thanksgiving dinner. Learn about their turkey and all the fixings -- and even a dessert!

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: 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: 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: Tree Heartbeats, Morse Code, and the Silurian Hypothesis of Ancient Earth

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In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories to help you get smarter and learn something new in just a few minutes: