Our Ability to Drink Milk Evolved Way Faster Than Scientists Thought
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🗓️ 15 October 2020
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Learn about the disturbing original plots of five beloved fairy tales, how the HALT method can help control your impulses, and why our ability to drink milk evolved way faster than we thought!
Here Are the Disturbing and Gory Origins of 5 Beloved Fairy Tales by Stephanie Bucklin
- Grimm 021: Cinderella. (2011). Pitt.Edu. https://www.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm021.html
- Snow White. (2014). Vcu.Edu. https://germanstories.vcu.edu/grimm/schneeeng.html
- Beauty and the Beast. (2011). Pitt.Edu. http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/beauty.html
- Hans Christian Andersen : The Snow Queen. (2019). Andersen.Sdu.Dk. https://andersen.sdu.dk/vaerk/hersholt/TheSnowQueen_e.html
- Hans Christian Andersen: The Little Mermaid. (2020). Gilead.Org.Il. http://hca.gilead.org.il/li_merma.html
Learn the “HALT” Method to Control Your Impulses by Annie Hartman
- Original episode: https://www.curiositydaily.com/space-elevator-science-halt-impulse-control-method/
Our ability to drink milk evolved way faster than we thought by Cameron Duke
- An Evolutionary Whodunit: How Did Humans Develop Lactose Tolerance? (2012, December 28). NPR.Org. https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2012/12/27/168144785/an-evolutionary-whodunit-how-did-humans-develop-lactose-tolerance
- Burger, J., Link, V., Blöcher, J., Schulz, A., Sell, C., Pochon, Z., Diekmann, Y., Žegarac, A., Hofmanová, Z., Winkelbach, L., Reyna-Blanco, C. S., Bieker, V., Orschiedt, J., Brinker, U., Scheu, A., Leuenberger, C., Bertino, T. S., Bollongino, R., Lidke, G., … Wegmann, D. (2020). Low Prevalence of Lactase Persistence in Bronze Age Europe Indicates Ongoing Strong Selection over the Last 3,000 Years. Current Biology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2020.08.033
- Stony Brook University. (2020, September 3). Genetic Analysis of Bones From a Bronze Age Battle Reveal Lactose Tolerance Quickly Spread Throughout Europe. Scitechdaily.Com. https://scitechdaily.com/genetic-analysis-of-bones-from-a-bronze-age-battle-reveal-lactose-tolerance-quickly-spread-throughout-europe/
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Curiosity.com. |
| 0:06.4 | I'm Ashley Hamer. |
| 0:07.4 | And I'm Natalia Reagan. |
| 0:08.7 | Today you'll learn about the disturbing original plots of five beloved fairy tales, |
| 0:13.4 | how the Halt method can help control your impulses, |
| 0:16.4 | and why our ability to drink milk evolved way faster than we thought. |
| 0:19.9 | Let's satisfy some curiosity. |
| 0:21.8 | Whoa, ready for some grim, grim tails Ashley. |
| 0:27.0 | Oh, I'm ready. |
| 0:28.0 | Oh yeah, let's bring it on. |
| 0:29.0 | Well, Disney movies are full of cute talking animals, upbeat songs, and happily ever afters, but it's no secret that the fairy tales they're based on are much darker. |
| 0:41.0 | For a bit of spooky Halloween fun, I'm going to tell you what really happened in the original stories. |
| 0:47.0 | So sit down, don't get too comfortable, because I'm going to make you uncomfortable really quickly, |
| 0:51.0 | but here are the disturbing and gruesome origins of five beloved fairy tales. |
| 0:56.0 | First, Cinderella. |
| 0:58.0 | Everybody knows the prince found Cinderella by testing the glass slipper on all the women in the kingdom. |
| 1:03.0 | What's not in the Disney version is that when the stepsisters couldn't fit their feet in the glass |
| 1:08.6 | slipper, they cut off parts of their feet to make the shoes fit. |
| 1:14.0 | The bloody slipper gave them away. |
| 1:17.3 | Talk about determination. |
| 1:18.4 | I'm almost impressed. |
| 1:20.3 | In the Disney version of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the evil Queen tries to kill Snow White with a poison apple. |
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