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Laziness Isn’t What You Think (w/ Dr. Devon Price)
Learn about how we know that an asteroid killed the dinosaurs. We’ll also talk to social psychologist and author Devon Price about how laziness might…
5 years, 9 months ago
Why You Need Self-Compassion for Self-Improvement
Learn about why adding cold cream to your coffee keeps it hotter longer, why social identity can make people distrust the scientific consensus, and w…
5 years, 9 months ago
Why It’s Relaxing to Breathe in Through Your Nose
Learn about why it’s relaxing to breathe in through your nose and the first woman who’s ever been struck by a meteor. We’ll also answer a listener qu…
5 years, 9 months ago
Why Animals Keep Evolving Into Crabs
Learn about why animals keep evolving into crabs in a principle called “carcinization,” whether water is actually wet, and if there’s any truth behin…
5 years, 9 months ago
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 fi…
5 years, 9 months ago
Scientists Finally Found a Dinosaur Cloaca
Learn about why we now know what a dinosaur's cloaca looks like. You’ll also learn why smells change with context from food science expert Harold McG…
5 years, 9 months ago
The Stressful Psychology of a Ghosted Email
Learn about how a ghosted email causes different stress than a rude response does, the 15-year grudge match between rival dino hunters known as The B…
5 years, 9 months ago
Is That Real Money or Fun Money? The Trap of Mental Accounting
Learn about how to avoid the too-familiar trap of mental accounting, the story of when a glitchy instrument led to evidence for the Big Bang, and the…
5 years, 9 months ago
The More You Wish for Self-Control, the Less of It You Have
Learn about a nearly mile-long trackway of fossilized human footprints is the longest ever found, a trick to keep experiences feeling fresh and new, …
5 years, 10 months ago
Do Turkeys Really Drown in Rainstorms?
Neil Shubin is back to talk about the viruses lurking in your DNA. You’ll also learn about whether it’s true that turkeys are so dumb that they drown…
5 years, 10 months ago