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Today you'll learn about the potential positive power of gossip,

how climate change is making zooplankton in Lake Erie confused,

and a surprising connection between new school buses and student performance in school.

Let's have some fun with this.

According to a new study, we all might do better if we hung out with more blabber mouths.

Blabber mouths, is that a scientific term?

Ah, well, you know, call them what you will.

This was a pretty cool little tell-all study on the positive power of gossip.

Oh yeah, okay. If I recall there have been a couple of studies on gossip lately and it

mostly paints gossip as a potentially good thing, right? So yeah, mostly. But here's the thing, right?

So yeah, mostly.

But here's the thing.

An earlier study found that humans spend about an hour every day talking about other people.

In other words, we spend a relatively huge portion of our lives talking about people basically behind their backs.

Yeah, I'll be honest, that doesn't sound super positive.

But the negative connotations and the sheer amount of our time we spend doing it

is what led researchers from both

Stanford and the University of Maryland to conduct this study and this study was

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