How Human Nature Screws Up Your Life (and How to Fix It) & The Trouble with Recycling

Something You Should Know

Mike Carruthers | OmniCastMedia

Education, Social Sciences, Self-improvement, Science, Health & Fitness

4.5 • 4.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2018

⏱️ 47 minutes

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In most places around the world, Siri comes with a female voice by default. Of course you can change it but most people don’t. This is true for most other voiced-based computer programs. Why? We begin this episode with the fascinating reasons why most people prefer their devices sound female. http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/apps/a18018/why-is-siri-a-female-voice/ Human nature – it is a collection of things we humans tend to do by default. Robert Greene, author of the bestseller The Laws of Human Nature (https://amzn.to/2yQtqZy) takes you on a fascinating journey into why we do the things we do and why these tendencies we have often get in the way of our happiness and success. There are 18 laws of human nature and Robert will explain how to use them to your advantage and how to counter them when they work against you. What could be simpler and more satisfying than a grilled cheese sandwich? Most of us have been eating them since we were kids. Actually though, there is some science and technique to making the perfect grilled cheese sandwich and a lot of it has to do with the cheese you select. Which is best? Listen and find out. http://www.businessinsider.com/science-making-grilled-cheese-2015-11 Household recycling has become habit for many people. We just do it because – well that’s what good citizens do. What you may not know is that there are a lot of problems with recycling. In fact a lot of what you recycle probably NEVER gets recycled. Instead it ends up in a landfill with all the other garbage. Beth Porter is an expert on the subject and she is author of the book Reduce, Reuse, Reimagine: Sorting Out the Recycling System (https://amzn.to/2JCkknD) . Beth joins me to reveal what’s wrong with recycling and what everyone can do to make the whole system work better and more efficiently. This Week's Sponsors Care/Of Vitamins. For 25% off your first month of personalized care/of vitamins go to www.TakeCareOf.com and use the promo code SOMETHING Home Chef. Go to www.HomeChef.com/something to get $30 off your first order. Madison Reed. For 10% off plus free shipping on your first order go to www.Madison-Reed.com/something Jet.com. For a great online shopping experience go to www.Jet.com The Lodge at Woodloch. $50 resort credit off any 2-night stay at The Lodge at Woodloch when mentioning promo code SOMETHING by calling 800-966-3562, Option 2, then Option 1 for reservations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today on Something You Should Know, in most countries, Surrey has a female voice, and there
0:07.2	are some interesting reasons why.
0:09.8	Then the fascinating and irrefutable laws of human nature, for example, the law of fickleness.
0:16.4	This fickleness is extremely dangerous because people are judging you by what you've done
0:23.0	for them lately.
0:24.6	Their loyalty to you is paper thin and it will turn on a dime.
0:29.0	Plus, how to make the perfect grilled cheese sandwich.
0:32.6	And what you don't know about recycling will amaze you.
0:36.0	For example, you'll be surprised to learn where a lot of your recyclables actually go.
0:41.4	So when people think, oh, I'm recycling this, I'm recycling that.
0:44.6	It's highly possible that some of their materials, a big chunk of them, are rerouted to a
0:49.0	landfill because they've been recycled improperly.
0:51.8	Because it's coated in food, it's saturated with water, there's broken glass.
0:56.2	All this today on Something You Should Know.
1:01.2	I just learned, discover credit cards do something pretty awesome.
1:06.0	At the end of your first year, they automatically double all the cash back you've earned.
1:11.5	That's right, everything you've earned doubled.
1:14.4	All the cash back from eating at your favorite soup dumpling restaurant?
1:18.4	Doubled.
1:19.4	All the cash back from that trip you sort of learned how to snowboard?
1:23.4	Also doubled.
1:24.7	And the best part, you don't have to do anything ridiculous to get it.
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