Curiosity Daily Podcast: Future GMO Foods, The Thought Gap, How Your Brain Knows You’re Uncomfortable

Learn about why researchers are developing new GMO foods like golden rice; why you underestimate how often others are thinking about you; and how your brain knows when you’re uncomfortable and you need to change your position.

December 17, 2021

Episode Show Notes:

You regularly underestimate how often someone else is thinking about you by Steffie Drucker

How the brain tells us to change position by Ashley Hamer (Listener question from Constanza in Mexico City)

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