Hi guys it's Callie since it's the holidays and we are off spending time with our loved ones we are

re-releasing some of our best episodes of this past year we are so grateful to our listeners for getting

curious with us week after week we love the show and are so very excited for some of the

stories we've got coming up in the new year. So without further ado, let's get into it.

Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Discovery.

Time flies when you're learning super cool stuff.

I'm Nate.

And I'm Callie.

If you're dropping in for the first time, welcome to Curiosity, where we aim to blow your mind by helping you to grow your mind.

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Today you'll learn about how nicknames for young boys can actually help them socialize better, how archaeologists

in Poland have unearthed the grave of a woman people feared might return from the dead, and a new study

that disproves Freud's theory that more successful people are usually

unhealthier than less successful people. And without further ado, let's satisfy

some curiosity.

Kali, did you ever have any embarrassing nicknames growing up?

Uh, okay, no, not embarrassing, like, my family had a really sweet nickname for me.

I was called Happy Eyes growing up or Cal by my friends but that was fine but I'm just

Cali you know sure okay I hear that well I recently found out that specifically for young boys, nicknames can be really important.

Recently a clinical psychologist, Jet Stone wrote an article talking all about the importance of boyhood nicknames and what they say about

our sense of belonging and how they can help us become better people even if they're

kind of embarrassing nicknames like jerk-face or turkey rot or gravy goblin.

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