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I'm Cody Gough. And I'm Ashley Hamer.

Today you learn about why envy isn't always a bad thing,

and how the Coriolis effect affects the way things on Earth rotate.

We'll also answer a listener question about how RNA knows how to read DNA,

with some help from a special guest from the Carnegie Science Center.

Let's satisfy some curiosity.

If you're like me, you may have learned over the years that Science Center. Let's satisfy some curiosity.

If you're like me, you may have learned over the years that envy isn't always the healthiest

emotion out there.

What good is it to want what someone else has anyway?

Well, according to research, there is some good in that but

only if it's the right kind of envy. I'll get into how you can use envy to your

advantage but first let's define some terms.

Psychologists say there are three main ways we react to successful people,

with admiration, with benign envy, or with malicious envy.

All three of these feelings start with what's technically known as an upward social comparison.

In other words, you look at someone who's better than you at something,

and you're reacting to the difference between the two of you.

Now that first feeling of admiration

is when you take joy and that other person's success

while you accept yourself for who you are.

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