American Spending Habits, Reversed Organs, and the Sci-Fi Predictions of “Star Maker”

Curiosity Weekly

Warner Bros. Discovery

Self-improvement, Science, Astronomy, Education

4.6 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2018

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories to help you get smarter and learn something new in just a few minutes:

Here's How the Average American Household Spends Its Money
This Is the 1930s Novel that Described Sci-Fi Tropes Decades Before Anyone Else https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/525304.Star_Maker
Some People Are Born With Their Organs Reversed

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0:00.0	Hi, we've got three stories 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'll learn about a novel that describes science fiction tropes decades before anyone else,
0:12.0	how the average American household spends its money,
0:14.4	and why some people are born with their organs reversed.
0:17.0	That's satisfy some curiosity.
0:18.6	Alright Ashley, what percent of your income would you guess you spend on food?
0:22.2	Oh gosh, too much.
0:24.0	If they had to throw it a number, any idea?
0:27.0	10, 15%.
0:28.0	10%?
0:29.0	Okay, all right, that's about in line with the average American.
0:32.0	Oh, yeah.
0:33.2	Curiosity's today wrote about how the average American household spends its money.
0:38.0	And we got this info from a recent report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which looked at data
0:42.2	from 2016, and they found some changes in spending habits
0:45.2	from the previous year.
0:46.2	So you can get all these numbers on Curiosity.com, or on the Curiosity app for Android or iOS,
0:51.3	but where does most of the money go? Housing. If you're the average American,
0:55.4	then that's 25% of your spending. Next is actually transportation at 12% of your spending,
1:01.3	then food at 10%.
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