Long Lines Are Good, Supernova Archaeology, Key Lime Pie History, and Pain Memory
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 963 Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2019
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Learn about why it’s a good thing when you have to wait in a long line; new research that says an ancient supernova may have triggered a mass extinction on Earth; the delicious origin story of Key lime pie; and how and why we forget pain.
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:
- Why Is This Line So Long? — https://curiosity.im/2LNuYJk
- An Ancient Supernova May Have Triggered a Mass Extinction on Earth — https://curiosity.im/2LWKbb6
- Key Lime Pie Is a Modern Delicacy With Humble Beginnings — https://curiosity.im/2s7bPZO
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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. |
| 0:05.7 | I'm Cody Gough. |
| 0:06.7 | And I'm Ashley Hamer. |
| 0:07.7 | Today you learn about why it's a good thing when you have to wait in a long line. |
| 0:11.3 | New research that says an ancient |
| 0:12.8 | supernova may have triggered a mass extinction on Earth, |
| 0:15.9 | and the delicious origin story of Keline Pie. |
| 0:19.1 | We'll also answer a listener question |
| 0:20.6 | about how and why we forget pain. |
| 0:22.6 | But satisfy some curiosity. |
| 0:24.4 | We've all been stuck waiting in a long line. |
| 0:26.5 | Holiday shopping season comes to mind. |
| 0:28.6 | Well, don't let it ruin your day the minute you see a long line, |
| 0:31.0 | because guess what? |
| 0:32.1 | A long line can be a good thing and that comes |
| 0:34.8 | down to the focus of our first story today queuing theory as reported by the |
| 0:39.4 | conversation queuing theory is an actual mathematical science behind why the line is so long. |
| 0:45.0 | Now, there can be a lot of bad reasons for a long line, from a bad retail manager to being |
| 0:49.7 | short-staffed. |
| 0:51.0 | But sometimes lines are long on purpose purpose thanks to a mathematical theorem called |
| 0:55.0 | Little's Law. It's named after an MIT professor named John Dutton Conant Little |
| 1:00.3 | who specializes in operations research. |
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