Cell Phone Radiation, Why It’s OK to Contaminate Other Worlds, and Types of Human Goals

Curiosity Weekly

Warner Bros. Discovery

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4.6 • 963 Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2019

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Learn about how human goals fall into 4 categories; why NASA’s Planetary Protection Independent Review Board (PPRIB) says we don’t need to be so careful about infecting other worlds; and whether cell phone radiation is actually dangerous.

In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following story from Curiosity.com about why a NASA panel says we don’t need to be so careful about infecting other worlds: https://curiosity.im/2K3gzJg

Additional sources discussed:

Psychologists analyze language to categorize human goals | EurekaAlert! — https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-10/uow-pal102919.php
Lexical Derivation of the PINT Taxonomy of Goals: Prominence, Inclusiveness, Negativity Prevention, and Tradition | The Cupola: Scholarship at Gettysburg College — https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1092&context=psyfac
Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) for Cellular Telephones | Federal Communications Commission — https://www.fcc.gov/general/specific-absorption-rate-sar-cellular-telephones
The Truth About Cell Phone Radiation | Forbes — https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2018/02/02/the-truth-about-cell-phone-radiation/#4a98baa192a3

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0:00.0	The famous five are away on a splendid weekend adventure.
0:03.5	Do we have to go home today?
0:05.5	sighed Anne.
0:06.5	I agree said Dick.
0:08.0	Even Timmy looks sad.
0:09.5	Cheer up everyone.
0:11.5	Beams Julian, I booked long weekend tickets we can return anytime on Monday
0:17.0	Oh you are clever Julian said Anne save over 50% with the long weekend a ticket from Great Western Railway.
0:24.5	Adventures start here.
0:26.0	Selected routes turn supply, saving in comparison to an anytime return fare.
0:30.0	Hi, we're here from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter in just a few minutes. I'm
0:37.4	Cody Goff. And I'm Ashley Hamer. Today you learn about how human goals fall
0:41.1	into four categories and why a NASA panel says we
0:44.5	don't need to be so careful about infecting other worlds. We'll also answer a
0:48.7	listener question about the intensity of cell phone radiation. Let's satisfy some curiosity. Psychology researchers
0:54.8	suggest that every human goal falls into one of four categories and having a
0:59.8	clean set of categories like that could solve a long-standing issue in psychological research.
1:04.4	I mean think about it. Psychology boils down to the study of human behavior and what motivates
1:09.8	that behavior. So knowing what people want is kind of the first step, right?
1:14.9	But it turns out that research into human goals is all over the place.
1:18.6	Psychologists can't really decide on a people which ones were most important to them. That way they could boil all those
1:34.1	goals down and hopefully end up with distinct universal categories of human
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