Curiosity Daily Podcast: Parents Rarely Pass Their Politics to Their Kids, Source of Peanut Allergies Found in the Gut, and Why Stars Don’t Make the Night Sky Bright
Learn about the perception-adoption model, which says that most parents don’t pass their political ideology to their kids; how researchers found the source of peanut allergies in the human gut; and Olbers’ Paradox, which asks why the night sky is so dark if stars are so bright
April 15, 2020
Episode Show Notes:
Most parents don't successfully transmit their political ideology to their kids by Kelsey Donk
- Dolan, E. W. (2020, March 8). Most parents do not successfully transmit their political values to their children, study finds. PsyPost; PsyPost. https://www.psypost.org/2020/03/most-parents-do-not-successfully-transmit-their-political-values-to-their-children-study-finds-56032
- Hatemi, P. K., & Ojeda, C. (2020). The Role of Child Perception and Motivation in Political Socialization. British Journal of Political Science, 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0007123419000516
- Ojeda, C., & Hatemi, P. K. (2015). Accounting for the Child in the Transmission of Party Identification. American Sociological Review, 80(6), 1150–1174. https://doi.org/10.1177/0003122415606101
Researchers find source of peanut allergies in the human gut by Grant Currin
- Severe peanut allergy may be a “gut reaction.” (2020). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-03/aaft-spa030220.php
- Pattillo, A. (2020, March 5). The source of peanut allergies has been found in a surprising place. Inverse; Inverse. https://www.inverse.com/mind-body/what-causes-a-severe-peanut-allergy-study-points-to-the-gut
- Wesemann, D. R., & Nagler, C. R. (2020). Origins of peanut allergy-causing antibodies. Science, 367(6482), 1072–1073. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aba8974
- Hoh, R. A., Joshi, S. A., Lee, J.-Y., Martin, B. A., Varma, S., Kwok, S., Nielsen, S. C. A., Nejad, P., Haraguchi, E., Dixit, P. S., Shutthanandan, S. V., Roskin, K. M., Zhang, W., Tupa, D., Bunning, B. J., Manohar, M., Tibshirani, R., Fernandez-Becker, N. Q., Kambham, N., … Boyd, S. D. (2020). Origins and clonal convergence of gastrointestinal IgE+ B cells in human peanut allergy. Science Immunology, 5(45), eaay4209. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciimmunol.aay4209
Olbers' Paradox Asks Why the Night Sky Isn't Blazing With Light by Trevor English
- Olbers’ Paradox. (2020). Ucr.edu. http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/GR/olbers.html
- The Olbers’ Paradox: Why is the Night Sky Dark? (2013, November 15). Futurism; Futurism. https://futurism.com/the-olbers-paradox-why-is-the-night-sky-dark
- J.D. Knight. (2016). Nebulae - Celestial Objects on Sea and Sky. Seasky.org. http://www.seasky.org/celestial-objects/nebulae.html
- How many stars are there in the Universe? (2020). Esa.Int. https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Herschel/How_many_stars_are_there_in_the_Universe
- The Expanding Universe. (2020). Sdss.org. http://skyserver.sdss.org/dr1/en/astro/universe/universe.asp
- Lii, P. (2020). The Universe Adventure - The Solution to Olber’s Paradox. Universeadventure.org. https://universeadventure.org/big_bang/popups/conseq-dtrh-olbersbigbang.htm
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