Limitations of Science, Top Jobs for Psychopaths, and How Long It Takes to Make a Friend

Curiosity Weekly

Warner Bros. Discovery

Self-improvement, Science, Astronomy, Education

4.6 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2019

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Learn about how many hours it takes to forge a new friendship, along with the health benefits they provide; the most popular jobs for psychopaths; and the limitations of science.

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:

This Is How Many Hours it Takes to Make a Friend — https://curiosity.im/2tvCiAV
The Top 10 Jobs for Psychopaths — https://curiosity.com/topics/the-top-10-jobs-for-psychopaths-curiosity

Additional resources discussed:

Why Do We Sleep? | Inverse — https://www.inverse.com/article/34600-why-do-we-sleep-and-dream
Scientists are unraveling the mystery of your body’s clock – and soon may be able to reset it | The Conversation — https://theconversation.com/scientists-are-unraveling-the-mystery-of-your-bodys-clock-and-soon-may-be-able-to-reset-it-84022
Turbulence, the oldest unsolved problem in physics | Ars Technica — https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/10/turbulence-the-oldest-unsolved-problem-in-physics/
True Cause of Whip's Crack Uncovered | Scientific American — https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/true-cause-of-whips-crack/
Scientists Just Discovered How Shoelaces Come Untied, and It's Weirder Than You'd Think | Curiosity.com — https://curiosity.im/2H87PAV
Scientists Just Figured Out How Washing Machines Clean Your Clothes | Curiosity.com — https://curiosity.im/2Hf5Cn8

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0:00.0	Hi, we're here from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter in just a few minutes.
0:04.8	I'm Cody Gough. And I'm Ashley Hamer.
0:06.8	Today you learn about how many hours it takes to forge a new friendship,
0:10.4	and the most popular jobs for Psychopaths.
0:13.0	We'll also answer a listener question about the limitations of science.
0:17.0	What satisfy some curiosity?
0:18.0	We got a listener question from Peter and his kids Micah, Eliana, and Nathan.
0:23.3	Peter wrote that he's always curious about what science can't explain.
0:27.1	Not the big stuff like quantum entanglement,
0:29.2	but the little things you'd think we had already figured out by now. So here's his question.
0:33.9	What are the everyday things that we can't explain or have only recently been understood?
0:38.7	And I wanted to start today's episode with this because we talk about science all the time so I think it's
0:44.2	really worth explaining where we're coming from when we talk about science and
0:48.4	research and what are the limits of science absolutely this is a big question and Cody and I have been talking about it non-stop since we got it.
0:56.7	We even put a call out on Twitter to see what suggestions others had.
1:00.4	We're going to keep talking about it, but first I want to run down some of the most fascinating things we found that science can't explain.
1:06.6	We've got links to learn more about all of these in the show notes.
1:09.8	Here goes.
1:11.0	We still don't know why we sleep or exactly how circadian rhythms work.
1:15.2	We still don't have a mathematical model for how dominoes fall.
1:18.7	Physicists are still puzzling over how to understand and predict turbulence, not just in the air but in water or any other fluid.
1:26.0	Scientists didn't know what caused the crack of a whip until 2002.
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