How Fruit Flies Are Like Humans, (w/ Stephanie Mohr), Your Changing Personality, and Pennies

Curiosity Weekly

Warner Bros. Discovery

Self-improvement, Science, Astronomy, Education

4.6 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2019

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Learn about how and why we study fruit flies with some help from Stephanie Mohr, author of the new book “First in Fly: Drosophila Research and Biological Discovery.” You’ll also learn why we still make pennies here in the U.S., and why science says your personality completely changes over time.

Get your copy of “First in Fly: Drosophila Research and Biological Discovery” on Amazon: https://amazon.com

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:

The U.S. Penny Costs More Than 1 Cent to Produce — https://curiosity.im/2GoTkYQ
Science Says You're A Totally Different Person At 14 And 77 — https://curiosity.im/2IloIZD

Additional resources from Stephanie Mohr:

“First in Fly: Drosophila Research and Biological Discovery” — https://amazon.com
Follow Stephanie Mohr on Twitter @smohrfly — https://twitter.com/smohrfly
Harvard bio — https://scholar.harvard.edu/smohr

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0:00.0	Hi, we're here from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter in just a few minutes.
0:05.0	I'm Cody Gough.
0:06.0	And I'm Ashley Hamer.
0:07.0	Today you learn why we still make pennies here in the US,
0:10.0	and why science says your personality completely changes over time.
0:14.0	You'll also hear from Stephanie Moore,
0:16.0	author of the book First and Fly,
0:18.0	who will teach you how similar fruit flies are to humans.
0:21.0	Let's satisfy some curiosity.
0:22.0	Today we're going to take a look's satisfy some curiosity.
0:22.8	Today we're going to take a look at the U.S. penny, which is worth one cent, but costs about
0:27.4	one and a half cents to produce.
0:29.9	Why do we make a coin that costs more than it's worth?
0:32.5	Especially when, let's face it, how often do you really use pennies anyway?
0:36.8	Well, the United States started producing pennies in 1787.
0:41.5	They've always been worth one cent, but the composition of the coin has changed.
0:46.2	Penies used to be made completely from copper, but as the value of copper went up, the value
0:51.0	of the penny went down.
0:53.0	That's why the U.S. Mint changed the composition to what it is today.
0:57.0	2.5% copper and 97.5% zinc.
1:01.0	But that value imbalance is still there.
1:04.0	Like I mentioned before, as of 2016, the penny still costs 1.5 cents to make.
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