Are Women Colder Than Men? Plus: The Worst Year to Be Alive, and Heart Cancer Rarity

Curiosity Weekly

Warner Bros. Discovery

Self-improvement, Science, Astronomy, Education

4.6 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2019

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Learn about the worst year to be alive, according to at least one medieval historian; why you never hear about heart cancer; and why women prefer hotter showers than men do.

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 Why You Never Hear About Heart Cancer — https://curiosity.im/2MeZagD
What Was the Worst Year to Be Alive? — https://curiosity.im/2MfNlqo
There's a Scientific Reason Women Are Always Colder Than Men | Glamour — https://www.glamour.com/story/theres-a-scientific-reason-women-are-always-colder-than-men
A Critical Appraisal of 98.6°F, the Upper Limit of the Normal Body Temperature, and Other Legacies of Carl Reinhold August Wunderlich | JAMA Network — https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/400116

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0:00.0	Hi, we've got the latest and greatest from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter in just a few minutes.
0:06.5	I'm Cody Gough.
0:07.3	And I'm Ashley Hamer.
0:08.4	Today you learn about the worst year to be alive according to at least one medieval historian and why you never hear
0:14.2	about heart cancer. We'll also answer a listener question about why women prefer
0:17.9	hotter showers than men do. You will want to stick around for the listener
0:21.8	question because this is one of the greatest moments of my podcast life.
0:25.6	Let's satisfy some curiosity on the award-winning Curiosity Daily.
0:29.7	Do you ever feel like things are worse than they have ever been?
0:33.6	Believe it or not, things have been worse,
0:36.8	according to at least one medieval historian.
0:39.3	And he says the worst year ever to be alive
0:41.5	was actually quite a while ago and recent research has found
0:45.2	some evidence as to what made this such a terribly tumultuous time but first any
0:50.2	guesses any year before the internet? Is that when? Yeah, looking for a little more of a specific number.
0:57.3	Got it. Here, so the year I am talking about, the worst year ever supposedly is 536 CE.
1:06.7	Although to be fair Ashley the internet did not exist in that year.
1:09.5	Yeah, hey, I'm right.
1:11.0	Hedge in my bets.
1:13.2	So here's what went down in 536.
1:16.3	A mysterious fog engulfed Europe, the Middle East,
1:19.8	and parts of Asia, resulting in 18 months of darkness. Temperatures dropped by as much as 4.5
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