Curiosity Daily Podcast: Having a Bad Boss Can Make You a Great Boss
Learn about why it’s a big deal that researchers found animal life underneath the Antarctic ice shelf; how scientists measured blinks to figure out why exercise gives your brain a boost; and why having a bad boss can make you a good boss.
March 29, 2021
Episode Show Notes:
Scientists accidentally found animal life 3,000 feet beneath the Antarctic ice shelf by Steffie Drucker
- Sample, I. (2021, February 15). Researchers rethink life in a cold climate after Antarctic find. The Guardian; The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/feb/15/researchers-rethink-life-in-a-cold-climate-after-antarctic-find
- Griffiths, H. J., Anker, P., Linse, K., Maxwell, J., Post, A. L., Stevens, C., Tulaczyk, S., & Smith, J. A. (2021). Breaking All the Rules: The First Recorded Hard Substrate Sessile Benthic Community Far Beneath an Antarctic Ice Shelf. Frontiers in Marine Science, 8. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.642040
- Metcalfe, T. (2021, February 17). Scientists find unexpected animal life far beneath Antarctica’s floating ice shelves. NBC News; NBC News. https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/scientists-find-unexpected-animal-life-far-antarcticas-floating-ice-sh-rcna285
- Sneed, A. (2016, June 28). Excitement Builds for the Possibility of Life on Enceladus. Scientific American. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/excitement-builds-for-the-possibility-of-life-on-enceladus/
- Ingredients for Life at Enceladus. (2017). NASA Solar System Exploration. https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/17649/ingredients-for-life-at-enceladus/
- Enceladus | Science – NASA Solar System Exploration. (2018, September 25). NASA Solar System Exploration. https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/cassini/science/enceladus/
By measuring blinks, scientists may have determined why exercise boosts cognitive function by Grant Currin
- Blink! The link between aerobic fitness and cognition. (2021). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-02/uot-btl020221.php
- Kuwamizu, R. et al. (2020). Spontaneous Eye Blink Rate Connects Missing Link between Aerobic Fitness and Cognition. Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, Publish Ahead of Print. https://doi.org/10.1249/mss.0000000000002590
Having a Bad Boss Can Make You a Great Boss by Mae Rice
- Tepper, B. J., et. al. (2006). Procedural injustice, victim precipitation, and abusive supervision. Personnel Psychology, 59(1), 101–123. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1744-6570.2006.00725.x
- Does Having a Bad Boss Make You More Likely to Be One Yourself? (2019, January 23). Harvard Business Review. https://hbr.org/2019/01/does-having-a-bad-boss-make-you-more-likely-to-be-one-yourself#
- Taylor, S. G., Griffith, M. D., Vadera, A. K., Folger, R., & Letwin, C. R. (2019). Breaking the cycle of abusive supervision: How disidentification and moral identity help the trickle-down change course. Journal of Applied Psychology, 104(1), 164–182. https://doi.org/10.1037/apl0000360
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