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Curiosity Daily Podcast: Pink Noise Sleep Hack, Saturn’s Moon Dione Habitability, and Giving Versus Receiving Advice

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Learn why scientists think Saturn’s moon Dione might be habitable; why new research shows that giving advice is better than receiving it; and how to get a deeper sleep and boost your memory by listening to “pink noise.”

Curiosity Daily Podcast: Short-Term Pleasures Are Important Too, the Smelly Armpit Enzyme, and a Thorne-Żytkow Object Is a Star Within a Star

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Learn about why short-term pleasures are important for your well-being; a Thorne-Żytkow Object, which is what astronomers call a star within a star; and how science identified the culprit for your smelly armpits: Staphylococcus hominis.

Curiosity Daily Podcast: Hangover Impairment, Moon Landings in the 1600s, and Harmful Effects of 24/7 Workplaces

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Learn about the impact of keeping employees available 24/7; a theologian who made plans to go to the moon in the 1600s; and new research into how being hungover can be just as dangerous as being drunk.

Curiosity Daily Podcast: ASMR Video Health Benefits, Moonquakes, and Holding Hands to Relieve Pain

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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:

Curiosity Daily Podcast: Tool to Cure Hiccups, Corvid Childhoods, How Spacecraft Move

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Learn about a scientific tool to cure hiccups; why corvids owe big brains to longer childhoods; and how spacecraft move.

Curiosity Daily Podcast: Slowly Aging Americans, The HAMMER Asteroid Spacecraft, and Elevator Mirrors

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Learn about how Americans are aging more slowly than ever; how the HAMMER spacecraft could save our planet from killer asteroids; and why there are mirrors next to elevators.

Curiosity Daily Podcast: Taurids and Leonids Meteor Showers, Willpower-Boosting Workouts, and Marie Curie’s Secret University

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Learn where you can catch the Taurids and Leonids meteor showers this month; how working out could boost your willpower; and where the world’s billionaires got their fortunes.

Curiosity Daily Podcast: How to Improve Your Sense of Direction, Pied Piper Mysteries, and Planet Name Origins

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

Curiosity Daily Podcast: Astronomy’s Problem with Starlink (w/ Vivienne Baldassare) and Why Toilet Paper Is White

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Learn about Starlink’s unintended consequences for astronomy from astrophysicist Vivienne Baldassare, NASA Einstein Postdoctoral Fellow at Yale University. Then, learn why toilet paper is white.

Curiosity Daily Podcast: Why Uranus Is Sideways, What Blinking Means, and “The Blood Countess”

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Learn about why blinking communicates a lot more than you probably thought; why astronomers think Uranus is tipped over; and the story of "The Blood Countess," a female murderer who may have inspired Bram Stoker’s Dracula.

Curiosity Daily Podcast: You’re Almost Entirely Empty Space, What Defines Seconds, and the Lyrid Meteor Shower

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Learn about why you’re almost completely made up of empty space; what defines a second of time; and where you can watch the Lyrid meteor shower this Tuesday.

Curiosity Daily Podcast: Local Honey Myths, NASA to the Moon, and a Bisexual 17th-Century Operatic Swordfighter

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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:

Curiosity Daily Podcast: You Can’t Taste a Drink’s Strength, Soda Can Explosion Taps, and Our Galaxy’s Weird Planets

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Learn about some of the weirdest types of planets in our galaxy; the right way to tap on a can of soda to keep it from exploding; and whether you can actually taste how strong a drink is.

Curiosity Daily Podcast: A New World Beyond Pluto, Neuroscience’s Take on Free Will, and Blue Zones Where People Live Longer

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Learn about a world beyond Pluto nicknamed “The Goblin” that astronomers just discovered; what neuroscience says about whether humans have free will; and “Blue Zones” where people live longer.

Curiosity Daily Podcast: Mental Trick to Enjoy Running, Longest Lunar Eclipse of the Century, and Perceptual Creep

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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:

Curiosity Daily Podcast: Internet Addiction, Dust in Space (w/ Astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell), and Vacation Science

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Learn about whether there’s actually such a thing as internet addiction; and, research-based tips for getting the most out of your next vacation. We’ll also answer a listener question about dust in space, with some help from astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell.

Curiosity Daily Podcast: The Smells That Existed Before Earth (w/ Harold McGee)

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Learn about why your dog might be lying about its size and how physicists just achieved room-temperature superconductivity for the first time. But first, food science expert Harold McGee is back to talk about the smells that existed before Earth did.

Curiosity Daily Podcast: Big Brain Bestfriends, Mars Exploration Fleet, Brain Unpain

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Discover how our brains physically reflect how social we are, a new proposal for Mars exploration vehicles, and patterns in our brain that reveal how we process pain!