From the Archives: Is Cell Phone Radiation Dangerous?

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🗓️ 16 March 2022

⏱️ 9 minutes

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This episode originally aired on 11/22/2019. New episodes coming soon.

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	Hey, it's Janice from Discovery. We took a look back at our amazing Curiosity Daily archive
0:04.8	and are re-erring this fan favorite episode from 2019. Take a listen to get smarter in just a few minutes
0:10.4	and we'll be back with fresh episode soon.
0:15.0	Hi, we're here from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter in just a few minutes.
0:20.0	I'm Cody Goff.
0:21.0	And I'm Ashley Hamer.
0:22.0	Today you learn about how human goals fall into four categories
0:25.2	and why a NASA panel says we don't need to be so careful about infecting other worlds.
0:30.0	We'll also answer a listener question about the intensity of cell phone radiation.
0:34.4	Let's satisfy some curiosity.
0:36.2	Psychology researchers suggest that every human goal falls into one of four categories.
0:41.8	And having a clean set of categories like that could solve a long-standing issue in psychological research.
0:47.0	I mean think about it. Psychology boils down to the study of human behavior and what motivates that behavior. So knowing what people want is
0:55.1	kind of the first step right? But it turns out that research into human goals is
0:59.6	all over the place. Psychologists can't really decide on a universal set of factors that
1:04.4	motivate our behavior. So to figure it out once and for all, a team of researchers
1:09.0	analyzed all the goal-related words in English, then asked people which ones were most important to them.
1:15.3	That way they could boil all those goals down and hopefully end up with distinct universal categories
1:20.1	of human goals.
1:21.7	They started with a list of more than 140,000 nouns and whittled those
1:25.0	down to the thousand or so that seemed related to human goals. The list was pretty wide-reaching.
1:31.1	It included words like power, sexiness, holiness, rejection, hunger, and obligation.
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