Curiosity Daily Podcast: Loving Your Job May Lead to Unethical Behavior, Bumblebees Bite Plants to Make Them Bloom, and Jupiter’s Moons Formed from Specks of Dust
Learn about how bumblebees bite plants to make them bloom early; why loving your job too much could lead to unethical behavior; and how Jupiter’s largest moons Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto each built themselves up from a single grain of dust.
June 30, 2020
Episode Show Notes:
When pollen is scarce, bumblebees bite plants to force them to flower by Cameron Duke
- Daley, J. (2020, May 21). Bumblebees Bite Plants to Force Them to Flower (Seriously). Scientific American. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bumblebees-bite-plants-to-force-them-to-flower-seriously/
- Miller-Rushing, A. J., Høye, T. T., Inouye, D. W., & Post, E. (2010). The effects of phenological mismatches on demography. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 365(1555), 3177–3186. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2010.0148
- Pashalidou, F. G., Lambert, H., Peybernes, T., Mescher, M. C., & De Moraes, C. M. (2020). Bumble bees damage plant leaves and accelerate flower production when pollen is scarce. Science, 368(6493), 881–884. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aay0496
- When plant pollen scarce, bumblebees biting leaves causes flowers to bloom early. (n.d.). EurekAlert! Retrieved May 27, 2020, from https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-05/aaft-wpp051820.php
Loving your job too much might lead to unethical behavior by Kelsey Donk
- The dark side of job engagement. (2019, July 9). The Behaviorist. https://www.behaviorist.biz/oh-behave-a-blog/job-engagement
- When Does Work Engagement Lead to Harmful Outcomes? (2019, June 8). Ioatwork.com. https://www.ioatwork.com/does-work-engagement-lead-to-harmful-outcomes/
- Wang, L., Law, K. S., Zhang, M. J., Li, Y. N., & Liang, Y. (2019). It’s mine! Psychological ownership of one’s job explains positive and negative workplace outcomes of job engagement. Journal of Applied Psychology, 104(2), 229–246. https://doi.org/10.1037/apl0000337
Jupiter's largest moons each built themselves up from a single grain of dust by Grant Currin
- Naone, E. (2020, May 18). Jupiter’s Largest Moons Might Have Formed From Dust. Discover Magazine; Discover Magazine. https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/astronomers-re-create-the-formation-of-jupiters-galilean-moons
- In Depth | Jupiter Moons – NASA Solar System Exploration. (2019, December 19). NASA Solar System Exploration. https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/moons/jupiter-moons/in-depth/
- Batygin, K., & Morbidelli, A. (2020). Formation of Giant Planet Satellites. The Astrophysical Journal, 894(2), 143. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab8937
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