Podcast9 – Podcasts App

Install

Curiosity Daily

Westwood One / Curiosity.com Science

The award-winning Curiosity Daily podcast will help you get smarter about the world around you — every day. In less than 10 minutes, you'll get a unique mix of research-based life hacks, the latest science and technology news, and more. Hosts Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer will help you learn about your mind and body, outer space and the depths of the sea, and how history shaped the world into what it is today.

Episodes

A Brain-Training Task to Reduce Motion Sickness

Nov 5 2020 • 0 MIN

Learn about a simple brain-training task that may reduce motion sickness, what parasites found in medieval human remains can tell us about eradicating them today, and the two main reasons why every...

5G Might Impair Weather Forecasts

Nov 4 2020 • 0 MIN

Learn about how 5G may impair weather forecasts, and how the first confirmed exoplanet was discovered a lot more recently than you may realize. Plus, science writer John Tierney is back to explore ...

How to Make the Most of Your Negativity Bias (w/ John Tierney)

Nov 3 2020 • 0 MIN

Learn about two new neuroscience studies that show why birds are so dang smart. Then science writer John Tierney will talk negativity bias and how you can use it to your own benefit. Curiosity D...

Can a Selfie Screen You for Heart Disease?

Nov 2 2020 • 0 MIN

Learn about whether it’s better to be a big fish in a small pond or a small fish in a big pond, a mysterious, ancient city called Cahokia that’s, weirdly, just outside St. Louis, and how AI might b...

The Door to Hell Is a Fiery Pit That’s Been Burning Since 1971

Oct 30 2020 • 0 MIN

Learn about a new theory for the uncanny valley effect and the Door to Hell, a giant fiery pit that’s been burning since 1971. We’ll also answer a listener question about how drug and alcohol toler...

Baby Tortoises Love Faces, and That’s a Big Deal for Science

Oct 29 2020 • 0 MIN

Learn how deliberate practice makes perfect, what the New England Vampire Panic is, and how baby tortoises are attracted to faces from birth. Curiosity Daily is a finalist in the 2020 Discover P...