How to Stop Procrastinating, Astronauts Seeing Cosmic Rays, and What Causes That Fresh Rain Smell
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 963 Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2018
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Learn what causes that fresh rain smell; how astronauts can actually see cosmic rays; and a trick you can use to stop procrastinating called the “frog rule.”
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:
- Know that Fresh Rain Smell? Here's What Causes It
- The Frog Rule Can Help You Stop Procrastinating on Important Tasks
- Astronauts Can Actually See Cosmic Rays
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, we've got the latest and greatest from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter in just a few minutes. |
| 0:05.4 | I'm Cody Goth. |
| 0:06.4 | And I'm Ashley Hamer. |
| 0:07.4 | Today you learn what causes that fresh rain smell, a trick you can use to stop procrastinating and how astronauts can actually see cosmic rays. |
| 0:15.4 | Let's satisfy some curiosity. |
| 0:17.0 | Cody, do you like the smell of new rain? |
| 0:19.0 | I love everything associated with rain. |
| 0:21.6 | Really? Yeah. |
| 0:23.4 | You like getting wet, you like puddles. |
| 0:25.3 | I love rainy days. |
| 0:26.4 | I love listening to the rain. |
| 0:27.8 | Wow. |
| 0:28.8 | Everything and everything precipitation. |
| 0:30.8 | I love when it snows. |
| 0:32.1 | I'm just, yeah. And you like the smell I think so yeah I hate the smell really yeah I don't know what it is so like dirt |
| 0:40.7 | Yeah, I don't like it everyone says that the smell of new rain is like the best smell in the world. |
| 0:46.0 | I just don't, I don't understand it. |
| 0:48.0 | Do you like rainy days? |
| 0:49.0 | Yeah, sure. |
| 0:50.0 | I mean, I come from the Pacific Northwest, it rains 50% of the time there. |
| 0:54.0 | Oh, right, in Northwest. Yeah? |
| 0:56.0 | Um, weird. Did you have like a really bad rainy day when you were young? |
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