Alibi Memory, Denisova Cave History, Cleaning Fruit & Veggies

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4.6 • 963 Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2021

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Learn how often people misremember alibis; new lessons from Denisova Cave; and how to remove pesticides from produce.

People often misremember where they were on a given date, which puts criminal alibis into question by Cameron Duke

Faulty memories of our past whereabouts: The fallacy of an airtight alibi. (2021). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-07/afps-fmo070721.php
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Young, E. (2021, June 7). It’s Surprisingly Common To Misremember Where You Were On A Specific Time And Date. Research Digest. https://digest.bps.org.uk/2021/06/07/its-surprisingly-common-to-misremember-where-you-were-on-a-specific-time-and-date/

Huge analysis of sediment DNA tells a deeper story of Denisova Cave by Cameron Duke

Pleistocene sediment DNA from Denisova Cave: Sediment DNA tracks 300,000 years of hominin and animal presence at Denisova Cave. (2021). ScienceDaily. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/06/210623113857.htm
Zavala, E. I., Jacobs, Z., Vernot, B., Shunkov, M. V., Kozlikin, M. B., Derevianko, A. P., Essel, E., de Fillipo, C., Nagel, S., Richter, J., Romagné, F., Schmidt, A., Li, B., O’Gorman, K., Slon, V., Kelso, J., Pääbo, S., Roberts, R. G., & Meyer, M. (2021). Pleistocene sediment DNA reveals hominin and faunal turnovers at Denisova Cave. Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03675-0

The Best Ways to Remove Pesticides From Produce was originally published June 29, 2018: https://omny.fm/shows/curiosity-daily/how-to-remove-pesticides-from-produce-the-misattri

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0:00.0	Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes.
0:04.0	With Curiosity Daily from Curiosity.com, I'm Codygoth.
0:08.0	And I'm Ashley Hamer.
0:09.0	Today you learn about how often people misremember where they were on a certain date,
0:13.4	what Denisova Cave has taught us about human evolution,
0:16.3	including the latest results from a huge DNA analysis,
0:20.0	and how to remove pesticides from produce.
0:23.0	Let's satisfy some curiosity.
0:26.0	Hey Ashley, where were you at 8 a.m. two Thursdays ago?
0:31.0	Probably just in my house on my couch.
0:35.0	Ah ha, guilty as charged.
0:37.0	Okay, I mean, maybe you've got some memory of what you were doing and where you were,
0:42.0	but are you confident that it's accurate?
0:44.4	No, not at all.
0:46.0	Yeah, well, our recent study suggests that you are likely to misremember where you were at a given time,
0:51.6	so you're not alone. And this fact does not bode well for criminal
0:55.9	alibis. I mean, if you're listening to this, prove me wrong. You tell me where you were at 8 a.m. two Thursdays ago.
1:02.1	I'm on Twitter. You know where to find me.
1:05.0	Anyway, in a recent experiment, researchers at the University of Melbourne had 51 volunteers
1:10.6	install a smartphone app. That app would track their location for a period of 30 days
1:16.0	and record an audio clip every 10 minutes.
1:19.0	I mean, yeah, that's maybe a little creepy,
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