Expiration Dates Explained, How to Make A Great First Impression, Your Quantum Life, and Endangered Words

Curiosity Weekly

Warner Bros. Discovery

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4.6 • 963 Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2018

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Learn how you experience the quantum world every day whenever you see or touch something; the one thing you should keep in mind if you want to make a great first impression; the next common English word that researchers say is going to go extinct; and how to interpret food expiration dates.

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:

You Experience the Quantum World Every Time You See, Touch, or Smell — https://curiosity.im/2RViJMn
To Make a Great First Impression, Keep One Thing in Mind — https://curiosity.im/2RXlbCp
Food Expiration Dates Mean Almost Nothing — https://curiosity.im/2OKQVbV
This Common English Word Is the Next One to Go Extinct, According to Research — https://curiosity.im/2ROWGqE

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0:00.0	Hi, we've got the latest and greatest from Curiosity.com to help it get smarter in just a few minutes. I'm Cody Gough.
0:06.0	And I'm Ashley Hamer. Today you learn how you experience the quantum world every day,
0:11.0	the one thing you should keep in mind if you want to make a great impression,
0:14.6	and the next common English word that researchers say is going to go extinct.
0:18.6	We'll also answer a listener question about food expiration dates.
0:22.0	What satisfy some curiosity?
0:23.8	So for most of us, quantum physics is almost imaginary.
0:26.9	It's essentially something scientists
0:28.5	tinker with in a lab somewhere that we've never seen.
0:31.3	I know cats and boxes and poison are involved.
0:33.8	Sure.
0:34.2	That's about it.
0:35.6	But that's just a thought experiment,
0:36.9	so that's not even real.
0:38.6	But the thing is, we actually encounter quantum physics every day with the way we sense the world.
0:45.0	So today I'm going to give you a quick primer on the way you experience the
0:48.6	quantum world every time you see, touch, or smell.
0:51.6	That's a lot of the time.
0:53.4	Yeah, right?
0:54.4	It's pretty much all the time.
0:55.9	You can read all the details about how quantum physics helps you see, touch, and smell things
1:00.3	on Curiosity.com and on the Curiosity app for Android and iOS,
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