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Who Ate the First Oyster? (With Cody Cassidy)
Learn about why we remember things in the opposite order as we see them and how spiders use atmospheric electricity to balloon through the air. You’l…
5 years, 11 months ago
Why Friends “Swapped Bodies” for Science (Again!)
Learn how swapping bodies with our pals can alter the way we view ourselves, why California’s redwoods have been able to survive relentless wildfires…
5 years, 11 months ago
Why Friends “Swapped Bodies” for Science
Learn how swapping bodies with our pals can alter the way we view ourselves, why California’s redwoods have been able to survive relentless wildfires…
5 years, 11 months ago
Why Don't We Sneeze in Our Sleep?
Scientists renamed human genes because of Microsoft Excel by Grant Currin Vincent, J. (2020, August 6). Scientists rename human genes to stop Micros…
6 years ago
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…
6 years 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…
6 years 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 …
6 years 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 …
6 years 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…
6 years 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…
6 years ago