Parents & Screens, BFFs Smell the Same, Locusts Find Cancer
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 935 Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2022
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
We discuss how digital media affects parents and caregivers, how friends often have similar body odor, and the cancer-sniffing abilities of locusts.
Parents & Screens
- “Using digital media to relax is related to lower-quality parenting” by Media Relations, University of Waterloo
- “Parents attached to digital devices more likely to yell at their kids, are less ‘present’ in their lives” By Chris Melore
BFFs Smell the Same
- “Scent of a friend: Similarities in body odor may contribute to social bonding” by Noah Sobel
Locusts Find Cancer
- “Locusts can 'sniff' out human cancer” by Matt Davenport
- “Locusts Can Smell Cancer, And It Could Give Us A Brilliant New Way to Save Lives” by David Nield
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Discovery. |
| 0:08.8 | Time flies when you learn in super cool stuff. I'm Nate. |
| 0:11.7 | And I'm Kali. If you're dropping in for the first time, |
| 0:14.0 | welcome to Curiosity where we aim to blow your mind by helping you to grow your mind. |
| 0:18.0 | If you're a loyal listener, welcome back. |
| 0:20.0 | Today you'll learn about how digital media affects parents and caregivers, how friends often have similar body odor, and the cancer sniffing abilities of locusts. |
| 0:29.0 | Without further ado, let's satisfy some curiosity. |
| 0:33.0 | You know, Kelly, sometimes I think about how glad I am that we didn't have as many screens in our |
| 0:37.8 | lives when we were growing up. |
| 0:39.0 | Like, I liked to watch some TV, but I also liked to tinker with stuff and play outside. |
| 0:44.3 | Oh sure I mean now it must be really hard to be a kid with all of these screens just |
| 0:49.0 | trying to distract you. I mean I'm distracted enough as an adult, but I found an interesting new study that |
| 0:55.1 | tackles how digital media affects family dynamics. It really emphasized the need to consider |
| 1:00.0 | just how much screen time caregivers are experiencing as it can have an enormous |
| 1:04.5 | impact on parenting methods. Okay so it's not just kids that have to get away from |
| 1:08.0 | the screens it's everyone as in anyone trying to maintain a healthy family |
| 1:12.2 | relationship. That's sure what it seems like. anyone trying to maintain a healthy family relationship? |
| 1:13.0 | That's sure what it seems like. |
| 1:15.0 | Researchers at the University of Waterloo in Canada wanted to know what the relationship was |
| 1:19.3 | between caregiver digital media consumption, mental health, and parenting practices. |
| 1:24.5 | They were particularly interested because, as you know, the COVID-19 pandemic began and so many of us |
| 1:29.5 | were spending more time with our families and more time on our screens. |
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