Curiosity Daily Podcast: Why Religious People Have More Children, Sea Turtles’ Clumsy Navigation Skills, and the Real Center of Our Solar System Isn’t the Sun
Learn the surprising reason why religious people tend to have more children; why sea turtles are actually pretty clumsy navigators; and where astronomers found the center of our solar system (spoiler alert: it’s not the center of our sun).
August 06, 2020
Episode Show Notes:
Evolution explains why religious people have more children by Kelsey Donk
- New research examines links between religion and parental support from non-family members. (2020). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-07/uoo-nre070120.php
- Church attendance and alloparenting: an analysis of fertility, social support and child development among English mothers | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. (2020). Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2019.0428
- About the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children. (2019). Bristol.ac.uk. http://www.bristol.ac.uk/alspac/about/
Sea turtles are surprisingly clumsy migrators by Kelsey Donk
- Sea turtles’ impressive navigation feats rely on surprisingly crude “map.” (2020). ScienceDaily. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/07/200716111631.htm
- Hays, G. C., Cerritelli, G., Esteban, N., Rattray, A., & Luschi, P. (2020). Open Ocean Reorientation and Challenges of Island Finding by Sea Turtles during Long-Distance Migration. Current Biology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2020.05.086
- True Navigation: Sensory Bases of Gradient Maps. (2020). Tufts.edu. https://pigeon.psy.tufts.edu/asc/Phillips/Default_Old_08_21.htm
Astronomers have located the center of the solar system and it's not the center of the sun by Grant Currin
- Starr, M. (2020). Astronomers Have Located The Centre of The Solar System to Within 100 Metres. ScienceAlert. https://www.sciencealert.com/astronomers-have-located-the-centre-of-the-solar-system-to-within-100-metres
- To find giant black holes, start with Jupiter. (2020). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-06/vu-tfg062920.php
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