4 of the World's Weirdest Weather Phenomena
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 964 Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2020
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Learn about how babies' random choices become their preferences, why modern agriculture requires “migratory beekeeping” — basically, taking honeybees on road trips, and four of the world’s weirdest weather phenomena.
Just like adults, babies' random choices become their preferences by Kelsey Donk
- Babies’ random choices become their preferences. (2020). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-10/jhu-brc100120.php
- Silver, A. M., Stahl, A. E., Loiotile, R., Smith-Flores, A. S., & Feigenson, L. (2020). When Not Choosing Leads to Not Liking: Choice-Induced Preference in Infancy. Psychological Science, 095679762095449. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797620954491
Why modern agriculture relies on driving honeybees around the country by Ashley Hamer
- Ferris Jabr. (2013). The Mind-Boggling Math of Migratory Beekeeping. Scientific American. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/migratory-beekeeping-mind-boggling-math/
- Rosner, H. (2013). Return of the Natives. Scientific American, 309(3), 70–75. https://doi.org/10.1038/scientificamerican0913-70
4 of the world's weirdest weather phenomena by Reuben Westmaas
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- Gangappa, R., & Hogg, S. I. (2013). DNA unmasked in the red rain cells of Kerala. Microbiology, 159(Pt_1), 107–111. https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.062711-0
- Lluvia de Peces (Rain of Fish). (2010, June 28). Atlas Obscura. https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/lluvia-de-peces-the-rain-of-fish
- Giant “Bugnado” Swarms In America’s Heartland. (2011, August 20). NPR.Org. https://www.npr.org/2011/08/20/139815838/giant-bugnado-swarms-in-americas-heartland
- Andrea Thompson,Climate Central. (2014, August 11). How Do Dust Devils Form? Scientific American. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-do-dust-devils-form/
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- Strange & Unexplained Things in Science: Star Jelly. (2015, April 27). Futurism; Futurism. https://futurism.com/strange-unexplained-things-science-star-jelly
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Curiosity.com. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Ashley Hamer. |
| 0:08.0 | And I'm Natalia Reagan. |
| 0:09.0 | Today you learn how babies random choices become their preferences, |
| 0:13.0 | why modern agriculture requires migratory beekeeping, |
| 0:16.4 | basically taking honey bees on road trips, |
| 0:19.1 | and for the world's weirdest weather phenomena. |
| 0:22.8 | Let's satisfy some curiosity. |
| 0:25.8 | There's new research about babies that might tell you something |
| 0:29.1 | you didn't know about yourself. |
| 0:31.3 | It turns out that when babies make a random choice, it becomes a lasting preference. |
| 0:36.8 | When a baby chooses a red ball instead of a green one, the act of deciding makes them like red more than green. |
| 0:45.0 | And here's what you might not realize. |
| 0:48.0 | Scientists already know that adults do this constantly. |
| 0:52.0 | Basically, adults tend to justify their choices after the fact by forming preferences. |
| 0:57.0 | When a person orders a turkey sandwich instead of ham, they start to think afterward, |
| 1:02.0 | hmm, I must like turkey more than ham. |
| 1:05.5 | Same goes for all the other tiny choices we make between two things that are basically the same. |
| 1:11.3 | We choose between styles of pants, colors of pens, and modes of transportation every day. |
| 1:17.0 | And the act of making a choice makes us feel a certain way about the other options. |
| 1:22.0 | Researchers from Johns Hopkins University wanted to know |
| 1:25.3 | whether babies do the same thing. If they do, using arbitrary choices to form |
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