Keeping Secrets Makes Life Harder, Emotions Change Your Perception of Time, and How We Proved the Earth Rotates
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 963 Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2018
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Learn how keeping secrets can literally weigh you down; how we knew the Earth rotates before we had space travel thanks to the Foucault pendulum; and how your emotions can alter your perception of time.
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- How Did People Know the Earth Rotates Before Space Travel? — https://curiosity.im/2SbmTQu
- The Average Person Is Hiding 13 Secrets, According to a Study — https://curiosity.im/2DNtIou
- Emotions Can Change How You Perceive Time — https://curiosity.im/2DNpFbK
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, we've got three stories from Curiosity.com to help it get smarter in just a few minutes. |
| 0:05.4 | I'm Cody Gough. |
| 0:06.3 | And I'm Ashley Hamer. |
| 0:07.3 | Today you learn how keeping secrets can literally weigh you down, how we knew the Earth rotates |
| 0:12.1 | before we had space travel, and how your emotions can |
| 0:15.1 | alter your perception of time. |
| 0:17.0 | Let's satisfy some curiosity. |
| 0:18.7 | Do you have a secret? |
| 0:20.2 | Here's a fun fact. |
| 0:21.2 | According to a 2017 study, the average person has around 13 secrets, |
| 0:26.0 | and five of them will never come out to anyone. The researchers say that it isn't the number of secrets you keep that really matters though it's |
| 0:34.0 | the burden of those secrets and the real effects they have on you. I'm glad I don't |
| 0:38.9 | have the deal with this. You don't have any secrets? Or do I? Oh. |
| 0:43.0 | You'll never know. |
| 0:44.0 | Do you? |
| 0:45.0 | No, I feel like I need to have more secrets. |
| 0:48.0 | I feel like that would be good for me to just like stop telling people everything. |
| 0:51.0 | According to this research, that may not be the case. |
| 0:54.4 | Hmm. |
| 0:55.4 | This study out of Columbia Business School |
| 0:57.2 | showed that when a subject thought about their secrets, |
| 0:59.9 | they actually acted as if they were burdened by physical weight. |
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