Infidelity Predictors, Buzz Aldrin’s Moon Mementos, Running May Be Good for Your Knees, and Hand/Eye Dominance
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 963 Ratings
🗓️ 2 September 2018
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Learn about left and right hand and eye dominance, and how they’re related; why running might actually be good for your knees; why Buzz Aldrin claimed 33 dollars in travel expenses for his trip to the moon; and two traits that determine how whether you’re more likely to cheat on your partner.
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:
- Running May Actually Be Good for Your Knees
- Buzz Aldrin Claimed $33.31 in Travel Expenses for His Moon Trip
- Two Traits Determine How Likely You Are to Cheat on Your Partner
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Plus, we discuss hand/eye dominance using the following research:
- More than 500,000 years of right-handedness in Europe | Taylor & Francis
- Left-handedness: Genes and matter of chance | Genetic Literacy Project
- Footedness of left- and right-handers | American Journal of Psychology
- Sighting dominance, handedness, and visual acuity preference: three mutually exclusive modalities? | Opthalmic & Physiological Optics
- What being right or left-handed says about your brain | Quartz
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| 0:00.0 | Happy Sunday. We've got three stories from Curiosity.com, plus the answer to a question from a curious listener like you to help you get smarter in just a few minutes. I'm Cody Gough. |
| 0:09.5 | And I'm Ashley Hamer. Today you'll learn why running might actually be good for your knees, why Buzz Aldrin |
| 0:14.8 | claimed $33 in travel expenses for his trip to the moon, and two traits that determine how likely |
| 0:20.5 | you are to cheat on your partner. We'll also get into left and right hand and eye dominance |
| 0:25.2 | and explain how they're related. |
| 0:26.6 | What satisfy some curiosity? |
| 0:28.1 | You've probably heard that running is bad for your knees, |
| 0:31.0 | but a growing body of research suggests that running might not only be fine for your knees, it might actually improve your knee health. |
| 0:38.0 | Do you think you have healthy knees then? I have super healthy knees. This is my biggest pet peeve. My response to this is always to change the subject so people never know how I actually feel but whenever someone tells me, oh I used to run but then it was just terrible for my knees so I stopped I want to you just |
| 0:55.8 | can't handle it I can't handle it why don't you educate them I'm a very well |
| 1:00.4 | actually kind of person and I try to stop from doing that in social situations |
| 1:05.1 | because people don't really appreciate it. That's tricky to be a science |
| 1:09.0 | educator but then also want to have friends. That's the trick. |
| 1:14.0 | Okay, that's fair. |
| 1:16.0 | That's fair. |
| 1:17.0 | Thank goodness we've got this podcast for an outlet. |
| 1:20.0 | Oh, really? |
| 1:21.0 | It helps a lot. |
| 1:22.0 | Well, for a study published in 2016 |
| 1:24.1 | in the European Journal of Applied Physiology, |
| 1:26.6 | researchers had male and female runners |
| 1:28.6 | either run on a treadmill for 30 minutes |
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