08 August 2019: A mindset for success, and mercury in fish
Nature Podcast
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4.5 • 893 Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2019
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
This week, a mindset to improve school performance, and the complex story of how mercury accumulates in fish.
In this episode:
00:46 Growth Mindset
How a one hour course could improve academic achievement.
Research article: Yeager et al.
11:47 Research Highlights
An extinct giant parrot, and hacking Manhattan’s traffic.
Research Highlight: Polly wants many crackers: fossils reveal first known giant parrot; Research Article: Vivek et al.
13:42 Toxic Tuna
Methylmercury levels in fish may increase due to climate change and overfishing, despite declines in emissions.
Research Article: Schartup et al.
19:15 News Chat
India’s proposed protections for fossils, and trust of scientists in the United States.
News: India’s geologists champion law to protect fossil treasures; News: US trust in scientists is now on par with the military
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| 0:00.0 | Nature. |
| 0:04.3 | In a experiment, I don't know yet. |
| 0:06.2 | Why is Blight so far? |
| 0:08.1 | Like, it sounds so simple. |
| 0:09.3 | They had no idea. |
| 0:10.8 | But now the data's... |
| 0:12.0 | I find this not only refreshing, but at some level astounding. |
| 0:19.9 | Nature. |
| 0:23.6 | Welcome back to the Nature podcast. |
| 0:25.6 | This week we'll be hearing about how a psychological intervention could improve achievement |
| 0:31.6 | and learning about the complexities of measuring mercury in fish. |
| 0:35.6 | I'm Noah Baker. And I'm Nick out. |
| 0:46.7 | I have a confession. |
| 0:48.4 | I'm not particularly good at maths. |
| 0:51.2 | I never have been. |
| 0:52.9 | Now, that's not to say that I'm really, really bad at it. |
| 0:55.9 | Like, I know that three squared is 11 and that if you divide anything by zero, you get 42, |
| 1:01.0 | but it's never been my subject, you know. But what if I thought differently at school? |
| 1:07.3 | Instead of knowing that maths wasn't my thing, what if I was encouraged to try again, to not |
| 1:12.7 | accept that me and mathematics were just never going to tessellate? |
| 1:16.6 | Could things have been different? |
| 1:19.0 | Well, according to psychologist Carol Dweck from Stanford University, they might have been. |
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