Shower Ideas, Medicinal Chocolate, Black Holes Burping

Curiosity Weekly

Warner Bros. Discovery

Science

4.6 • 963 Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2022

⏱️ 16 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Today we explore the science behind getting great ideas in the shower, how regular chocolate consumption can slow down cognitive decline, and how a black hole recently burped out the remnants of a star it absorbed four YEARS ago!

Shower Ideas

“The Science of Why You Have Great Ideas in The Shower” by Stacey Colino
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/the-science-of-why-you-have-great-ideas-in-the-shower/ar-AA10ANav
“An improved neuroanatomical model of the default-mode network reconciles previous neuroimaging and neuropathological findings” by Pedro Nascimento Alves, Chris Foulon, Vyacheslav Karolis, Danilo Bzdok, Daniel S. Margulies, Emmanuelle Volle & Michel Thiebaut de Schotten
- https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-019-0611-3

Medicinal Chocolate

“Daily Chocolate May Rescue The Brain From Cognitive Decline” by Gary Wenk
- https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/your-brain-food/202209/daily-chocolate-may-rescue-the-brain-cognitive-decline
“Daily multi-vitamins may improve brain function in older people – US study” by Ian Sample
- https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/sep/14/daily-multi-vitamins-may-improve-brain-function-in-older-people-us-study

Black Holes Burping

“‘We’ve Never Seen Anything Like This Before:’ Black Hole Spews Out Material Years After Shredding Star” by Harvard Center for Astrophysics
- https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/weve-never-seen-anything-black-hole-spews-out-material-years-after-shredding-star
“Ask Ethan: Are Black Holes Made Of Dark Matter?” by Ethan Siegel
- https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2020/09/04/ask-ethan-are-black-holes-made-of-dark-matter/?sh=77bd9483438b
“A Mildly Relativistic Outflow Launched Two Years after Disruption in Tidal Disruption Event AT2018hyz” by Y. Cendes et al.
- https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac88d0
“Black hole is 'burping out' a 'spaghettified' star it devoured years ago” by Robert Lea
- https://www.space.com/black-hole-spews-star-devoured-years-ago
“Are black holes and dark matter the same?” by University of Miami
- https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/12/211220120813.htm#:~:text=Astrophysicists%20suggest%20that%20primordial%20black,dark%20matter%20in%20the%20universe.

Follow Curiosity Daily on your favorite podcast app to get smarter with Calli and Nate — for free! Still curious? Get exclusive science shows, nature documentaries, and more real-life entertainment on discovery+! Go to https://discoveryplus.com/curiosity to start your 7-day free trial. discovery+ is currently only available for US subscribers.

Find episode transcripts here: https://curiosity-daily-4e53644e.simplecast.com/episodes/shower-ideas-medicinal-chocolate-black-holes-burping

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Discovery.
0:09.0	Time flies when you're learning super cool stuff. I'm Nate.
0:12.0	And I'm Callie. If you're dropping in for the first time
0:14.7	welcome to Curiosity where we aim to blow your mind by helping you to grow your mind. If you're a loyal
0:19.7	listener, welcome back. Today you'll learn about the science behind getting great ideas in the shower, how regular chocolate
0:26.8	consumption can slow down cognitive decline, and how a black hole recently burped out the remnants of a star that had absorbed four years ago.
0:36.5	Without further ado, let's satisfy some curiosity.
0:40.2	Here's a pretty meta setup for you today.
0:42.6	I was in the shower earlier thinking about how most of my best ideas come from being in the
0:48.0	shower when I wondered, is there a scientific reason for that?
0:52.2	And it actually turns out there is?
0:54.0	is.
0:55.0	Okay, I refuse to believe that science supports the idea of shower brilliance, so you're
0:58.7	gonna have to break this one down for me.
1:00.8	Well, it's not just me.
1:01.9	I've got the backing of cognitive neuroscientist John Conios on this one.
1:06.0	He says that when you're in the shower, and I quote, you don't have a lot to do, you can't see much,
1:11.5	and there's white noise. Your brain thinks in a more chaotic fashion your
1:15.4	executive processes diminish and associative processes amp up ideas bounce around and
1:20.6	different thoughts can collide and connect.
1:22.8	Okay, so wait, it doesn't have to be a shower then, right?
1:25.8	Like just any repetitive day-to-day task?
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Warner Bros. Discovery, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Warner Bros. Discovery and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.