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The Math Bias That Makes You Misjudge COVID-19
Learn how the mathematical mistake of exponential growth bias makes people underestimate the spread of COVID-19, how crocodiles have survived since t…
5 years, 6 months ago
Wildfires Can Create Their Own Storms
Learn about how wildfires are powerful enough to create their own storms, how the invention of bags influenced human evolution, and how announcers wi…
5 years, 6 months ago
Why Multitasking Keeps You Snacking
Learn about how rats might not have been all to blame for the bubonic plagues and why we’re more prone to mindlessly eat while we multitask. When …
5 years, 6 months ago
Why Do Young People Have More Déjà Vu?
Learn about whether animals can predict earthquakes, why younger folks experience déjà vu more often, and how software that helped us reach the moon …
5 years, 6 months ago
Children Led a Research Project, Painting Eyes on Cow Butts, and Whether to Rinse Your Recycling
Learn about how children led their own research project into what they really think of adults, how painting eyes on cow butts could help solve a wild…
5 years, 6 months ago
Why You Think You’re Too Smart for Ads, Studying Violinists to Understand Human Synchrony, and Relieving Pain by Holding Hands
Learn about how a phenomenon called the third-person effect makes us think we’re too smart for advertising to work on us, why scientists used violini…
5 years, 6 months ago
A Dark Sense of Humor May Mean a High IQ, Origin of the Word Orange, and Zombie Fires in the Arctic
Learn about how that dark sense of humor can mean a higher IQ, the origin of the word “orange,” and how the arctic produces “zombie fires.” A Dark…
5 years, 6 months ago
Can Smiling Actually Make You Happier? And Why a Clockmaker Figured Out Longitude
Learn whether smiling can actually make you feel happier and why it took John Harrison, a working-class clockmaker, to figure out longitude. It To…
5 years, 6 months ago
Two Types of Empathy, Why Razors Dull, and Can You Learn Perfect Pitch?
Learn about how there are two types of empathy — and why we need both, why sturdy steel razors dull, and whether it’s possible to learn perfect pitch…
5 years, 6 months ago
We All Think We’re Bad With Names, The Genius of Hobo Code, and How Attractive Do You Think You Are?
Learn about why everyone claims they’re awful at remembering names; how “hobo code” helped itinerant workers communicate in the 1900s; and whether yo…
5 years, 6 months ago