Laziness Isn’t What You Think (w/ Dr. Devon Price)
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
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🗓️ 8 December 2020
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Learn about how we know that an asteroid killed the dinosaurs. We’ll also talk to social psychologist and author Devon Price about how laziness might actually benefit us.
The Epic Tale of the 5th Mass Extinction (Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary) by Natalia Reagan
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- Alvarez, W. (2009). The historical record in the Scaglia limestone at Gubbio: magnetic reversals and the Cretaceous‐Tertiary mass extinction. Sedimentology, 56(1), 137-148.
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- Jaggard, V. (2019) What Killed Dinosaurs: New Ideas About the Wipeout. National Geographic.
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- The Demise of the Dinosaurs. Vanderbilt.Edu. https://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/physics/astrocourses/ast201/kt_exti
Additional resources from Dr. Devon Price:
- Preorder "Laziness Does Not Exist" on Amazon: https://amzn.to/393WHTM
- Dr. Devon Price on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drdevonprice
- Dr. Devon Price on Medium: https://devonprice.medium.com/
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from |
| 0:05.2 | Curiosity.com. I'm Cody Gough. I'm Ashley Hamer. And I'm Natalia Reagan. |
| 0:10.3 | Today you learn about how we know that an asteroid killed the dinosaurs. |
| 0:14.4 | Then we'll talk to social psychologist and author Devon Price |
| 0:18.0 | about how laziness might actually benefit us. |
| 0:21.0 | Let's set us by some curiosity. |
| 0:23.0 | If you've been listening to the show for a while, you know what many scientists |
| 0:27.5 | currently think killed the dinosaurs. |
| 0:30.3 | And no, it wasn't smoking. |
| 0:32.3 | They say it was a giant asteroid, |
| 0:34.0 | and they've got the evidence to prove it. |
| 0:36.0 | That's thanks to a father-son scientist team |
| 0:40.0 | that made an accidental discovery back in the 1970s. The scene, it's 66 million years ago. The end of the |
| 0:47.1 | Cretaceous period. It's hot, sticky hot. The earth is teeming with dinosaurs including |
| 0:52.4 | Terex's, velociraptors, and assorted |
| 0:55.4 | sauropods. And then it came. An asteroid the size of Mount Everest struck Earth. |
| 1:01.2 | The 100 million megaton blast destroyed 75% of all life, but not |
| 1:06.7 | all at once. The initial impact would have killed the animals in the immediate vicinity, but |
| 1:11.6 | it also would have triggered a series of devastating events, |
| 1:14.7 | including tsunamis, earthquakes, and underwater volcanic eruptions. |
| 1:20.1 | Not to mention the debris, which likely rose high into Earth's atmosphere and darkened the skies for months, maybe longer. |
| 1:27.5 | The lack of sunlight would have killed many plant species, which would have led to the deaths of the animals that ate those plants |
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