Andros’ Unexplored Blue Holes, Folie à Deux, and How Your Brain Treats Curiosity Like Hunger
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 963 Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2019
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Learn about why your brain treats hunger for knowledge like hunger for food; why the unexplored blue holes of Andros in the Bahamas is home to one of the most unique ecosystems on Earth; and folie à deux, a type of mental illness that can be shared and spread between people.
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:
- Your Brain Treats Hunger for Knowledge Like Hunger for Food — https://curiosity.im/2rMu072
- Andros, Bahamas Has More Than 200 "Blue Holes" — And They're Mostly Unexplored — https://curiosity.im/2rMW0r2
- Folie à Deux Is the Psychosis You Share With the One You Love — https://curiosity.im/2rMtXrS
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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. |
| 0:05.6 | I'm Cody Gough. |
| 0:06.4 | And I'm Ashley Hamer. |
| 0:07.6 | Today you learn about why your brain treats hunger for knowledge like hunger for food, |
| 0:11.9 | a place in the Bahamas where you can find one of the most |
| 0:14.1 | unique ecosystems on Earth, and a type of mental illness that can be shared and spread between people. |
| 0:20.0 | Let's satisfy some curiosity on the award-winning curiosity daily. |
| 0:23.4 | You know the phrase hungry for knowledge? |
| 0:25.5 | Well, that hunger might be more literal than we thought. |
| 0:28.1 | In a new study, researchers from the UK and Japan found that your curiosity works a lot like hunger. |
| 0:33.7 | And like hunger, it's hard to ignore. |
| 0:36.3 | I just wish I had been part of this experiment because it basically mixes magic, food, and |
| 0:40.5 | gambling. Yeah, it sounded really awesome. |
| 0:44.0 | Whoever said science wasn't fun, right? |
| 0:46.2 | For this study, participants either watched a short video of a magic trick |
| 0:49.7 | or looked at a picture of food. |
| 0:51.6 | Then they used a seven-point scale to rate either their curiosity |
| 0:54.8 | about the trick or their desire to eat that food. And then the researchers asked them if they |
| 0:59.7 | were enticed enough to gamble for it. Before making their decision, |
| 1:03.2 | they got to see a Wheel of Fortune style wheel |
| 1:05.5 | that visually displayed the probability of winning. |
| 1:08.1 | The exact layouts varied, and participants chances of winning |
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