Podcast: Bumble bee emotions, the purpose of yawning, and new insights into the developing infant brain
Science Magazine Podcast
Science Podcast
4.3 • 842 Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2016
⏱️ 23 minutes
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| 0:46.7 | I'm Sarah Presby. |
| 0:48.2 | In this week's show, Alexa Billo talks with Mercedes Perettas about neurons that migrate in the brain after we're born. And David |
| 0:57.1 | Grimm is here with a roundup of stories from our daily news site. Now we have David Grimm, |
| 1:05.8 | editor for our daily news site. He's here to talk about some recent online stories. First up, we have a story on the |
| 1:11.8 | emotions of bees. This one went out with a great headline. Don't worry, bees happy. Dave, |
| 1:19.7 | was that, was that you? That was not me. That goes to, credit goes to John Travis, our managing editor, |
| 1:26.2 | but one of my favorite headlines, certainly of the past week. |
| 1:29.9 | And this story is really about, yeah, well, do bees experience any sort of emotions, whether |
| 1:35.0 | it's happiness, optimism isn't really an emotion, but optimism has been tied to happiness. |
| 1:40.0 | So the idea behind this paper is that bumblebees can feel emotions. |
| 1:43.7 | But one of the odd things is the |
| 1:45.3 | bees' emotions are triggered by sugar. Is that really an emotional response? Does sugar affect |
| 1:51.8 | people's emotions? Well, sugar makes us happy. Oh, it does. It actually has been shown to make us |
| 1:56.0 | happy. We don't just think it makes us happy. It actually seems to make us happy. What the researchers |
| 1:59.9 | did was they first |
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