Dating App Data, Mass Frog Grave, Cure for Colorblind
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 935 Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2022
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Let’s talk about how dating apps stress us out, the discovery of a massive ancient frog grave, and how gene therapy can potentially cure colorblindness.
Dating App Data
- “The agony of partner choice: The effect of excessive partner availability on fear of being single, self-esteem, and partner choice overload” by Marina F. Thomas, Alice Binder, and Jörg Matthes.
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0747563221003009
- “Science of Dating: How Many Times Should You Swipe on a Dating App?” by Ellen Nguyen.
https://medium.com/tinglymind/science-of-dating-how-many-times-should-you-swipe-on-a-dating-app-acb28e6e709a
Mass Frog Grave
“Ancient frogs in mass grave died from too much sex – new research” by Daniel Falk
- https://theconversation.com/ancient-frogs-in-mass-grave-died-from-too-much-sex-new-research-188562
- “How Frogs Benefited From The Dinosaurs' Extinction” by Merrit Kennedy
- “The skeletal taphonomy of anurans from the Eocene Geiseltal Konservat-Lagerstätte, Germany: insights into the controls on fossil anuran preservation” by Daniel Falk, Oliver Wings, and Maria E. McNamara
Cure for Colorblind
- “Gene therapy partly restores cone function in two completely colorblind children” by Science Daily
- “A demonstration of cone function plasticity after gene therapy in achromatopsia” by Mahtab Farahbakhsh, Elaine J Anderson, Roni O Maimon-Mor, Andy Rider, John A Greenwood, Nashila Hirji, Serena Zaman, Pete R Jones, D Samuel Schwarzkopf, Geraint Rees, Michel Michaelides, and Tessa M Dekker
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Discovery. |
| 0:08.5 | Time flies when you learn in super cool stuff. |
| 0:10.5 | I'm Nate. |
| 0:11.5 | And I'm Callie. If you're dropping in for the first time, welcome to curiosity, where we aim to blow your mind by helping you to grow your mind. If you're a loyal listener, welcome back. Today, we discuss how dating apps stress us out, the discovery of a massive ancient frog grave, |
| 0:26.7 | and how gene therapy can potentially cure color blindness. |
| 0:30.5 | Without further ado, let's satisfy some curiosity. |
| 0:34.2 | Okay, tell me, Nate, do you think it's better or worse to have a lot of options on a dating |
| 0:38.0 | app as opposed to only a few? |
| 0:40.7 | On one hand, exclusivity means you're way more likely to be noticed, |
| 0:45.0 | though it also means there's a high chance you won't find someone you're looking for. |
| 0:49.0 | But an overabundance of options means it could be more easily ignored or get overwhelmed. |
| 0:54.8 | Well, apparently having too many options on dating apps could have adverse effects such |
| 0:59.7 | as fear of staying single, a negative effect on your self-esteem, and yes, an overwhelming amount of partner |
| 1:06.1 | choice overload. |
| 1:07.1 | Yeah, that makes sense, but how do people know this? |
| 1:11.7 | There were a few different studies that painted the big |
| 1:13.8 | picture. Study one was a survey of 667 adults between the ages of 18 and 67. |
| 1:20.3 | Here they found that dating app use was associated with an increased perception that there were too many people on the site. |
| 1:27.0 | How did they find that out? |
| 1:28.0 | By measuring their dating app use with one item on a scale that went from never to several times a day. |
| 1:34.0 | Then they measured participants' perceived availability with a statement that said |
| 1:38.2 | the number of potential partners is nearly infinite. They use similar measures to figure out a fear of being alone, then |
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