Curiosity Daily Podcast: How to Take A Compliment, Learn Anything in Four Steps, and Design a New Arecibo Message

Learn why compliments are so embarrassing, and how you can take them better; how you can help astronomers design a new Arecibo Message to send to extraterrestrials; and how you can learn anything in four steps with the Feynman Technique.

December 12, 2018

Episode Show Notes:

In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter and learn something new in just a few minutes:

Why Are Compliments So Embarrassing? — https://curiosity.im/2EcrmiV
A New Arecibo Message to Extraterrestrials Needs Your Suggestions — https://curiosity.im/2EeoTEC
Learn Anything in Four Steps With the Feynman Technique — https://curiosity.im/2EbxfNz

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