A Town Where Wireless Signals Are Banned, Why Fish Stink, and a Personality Health Test
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 963 Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2019
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Learn about why wireless signals are completely banned from Green Bank, West Virginia; why fish stinks but chicken doesn’t; and how to find out if you have a healthy personality.
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:
- Wireless Signals Are Banned in This Small West Virginia Town — https://curiosity.im/2GvhnFf
- How Come Fish Stinks But Chicken Doesn't? — https://curiosity.im/2GxqJ3B
- Do You Have a "Healthy" Personality? Find Out With This Psychology Scale — https://curiosity.im/2GyLWdy
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, we're here from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter in just a few minutes. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm Cody Gough. |
| 0:06.0 | And I'm Ashley Hamer. |
| 0:07.0 | Today you learn about why wireless signals are completely banned from a small town in West Virginia, |
| 0:12.0 | why fish stinks, but chicken doesn't, and how to find out |
| 0:15.6 | if you have a healthy personality. |
| 0:17.2 | Let's set us some curiosity. |
| 0:19.2 | If you've ever wanted to just get away from it all, then have I got the place for you? |
| 0:23.6 | There is a town in the US where wireless signals are banned completely. |
| 0:27.8 | No internet, no cell phones. |
| 0:30.4 | Talk about a place where you can log off for a while. |
| 0:32.5 | Sounds like the perfect vacation spot to me, honestly. |
| 0:35.0 | I don't know, man. I need my social media. |
| 0:37.5 | I don't. |
| 0:38.5 | And by the way, there's a great profile of this town that I'm about to talk about in a Werner Herzog film from 2016 called |
| 0:46.2 | Low and Behold. It's a documentary about the past, present, and future of the internet and how it affects |
| 0:51.6 | human interaction in modern society and I |
| 0:54.2 | personally recommend it not a curiosity official recommendation but I thought it was |
| 0:58.3 | fantastic I'll have to check it out but in case you didn't catch that film here's the |
| 1:02.2 | scoop on the town of Green Bank, West Virginia. |
| 1:05.0 | It sits right in the middle of the National Radio Quiet Zone, which is a region spanning 13,000 square miles, or 34,000 square kilometers. It's an area where earthly signals are muted so |
| 1:16.9 | cosmic signals can be heard and it's been that way since 1958. These days |
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