Equinox and Solstice Science, Foreign Accent Syndrome, and an 80-Year Harvard Study
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 935 Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2019
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
Learn about what causes an equinox or a solstice; how a rare condition can give you a foreign accent; and, an 80-year Harvard study that found the greatest predictor of happiness in later life.
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:
- What's the Difference Between an Equinox and a Solstice? — https://curiosity.im/2EEiqk2
- This Rare Condition Can Give You a Foreign Accent — https://curiosity.im/2EGBxKG
- An 80-Year Harvard Study Found the Greatest Predictor of Happiness in Later Life — https://curiosity.im/2EDkqt6
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, we're here from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter in just a few minutes. |
| 0:04.9 | I'm Cody Gough. |
| 0:05.7 | And I'm Ashley Hamer. |
| 0:06.9 | Today you learn about what causes an equinox or a solstice, |
| 0:10.4 | how a rare condition can give you a foreign accent and an 80-year Harvard study that found the greatest predictor of happiness in later life. |
| 0:18.0 | But it's set us some curiosity. |
| 0:19.0 | Hey Cody. |
| 0:20.0 | Hey Ashley. |
| 0:21.0 | You know what today is? |
| 0:22.0 | What? Well, it's the spring equinox but you know what else |
| 0:26.4 | today is what it's my birthday happy birthday Ashley thank you I have no idea what the Spring Equinox is. Well I'll tell you. Is your birthday |
| 0:36.0 | always on the Spring Equinox? It is. Oh it's it's always within a day of the |
| 0:40.9 | Spring Equinox. The Spring Equinox happens either on March 20th |
| 0:44.1 | or March 21st, every year. |
| 0:46.4 | Got it. |
| 0:47.0 | Yeah, and that's just one of two equinoxes. |
| 0:49.8 | So twice a year, the Earth experiences an equinox. Another two times per year the Earth |
| 0:55.0 | experiences a solstice. And you could probably think of an equinox and a solstice |
| 0:59.8 | as opposites. During a solstice the Sun rises and appears to stop in the middle of the day for a while before it sets. |
| 1:07.0 | That's why the summer solstice is the longest day of the year. |
| 1:11.0 | If you're on the opposite side of the globe from that sunny standstill |
| 1:14.0 | you'd experience a winter solstice |
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