Smiling Can Make You Happier, Maybe Nobody Likes Black Coffee or Beer, and Entropy 101
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 963 Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2019
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Learn about the weird science behind why people like the taste of black coffee; how entropy keeps time flowing forward; and how smiling really can make you feel happier.
In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter and learn something new in just a few minutes:
- Taking Your Coffee Black Might Be Genetic — https://curiosity.im/2Yf0FQK
- Entropy Is Why You Can't Unbreak an Egg. Is It Also Why Time Can't Go Backward? — https://curiosity.im/2GNCYIe
- A New Study Shows Smiling Really Can Make You Feel Happier — https://curiosity.im/2GS9uZy
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, we're here from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter in just a few minutes. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm Cody Gough. |
| 0:06.0 | And I'm Ashley Hamer. |
| 0:07.0 | Today you learn about the weird science behind why people like the taste of black coffee, |
| 0:11.0 | how entropy keeps time flowing forward, and how smiling really |
| 0:15.5 | can make you feel happier. |
| 0:17.1 | Let's just let us out some curiosity. |
| 0:18.8 | A new study suggests that taking your coffee black might be genetic, |
| 0:22.8 | but not for the reason you might think. |
| 0:25.4 | In fact, the specifics are pretty weird, |
| 0:27.8 | which is why we're gonna start |
| 0:28.9 | with some coffee science today. |
| 0:31.0 | And buckle up because the implications from the study might blow your mind. |
| 0:35.0 | Ashley and I will definitely have something to say about it in a minute. |
| 0:39.0 | Yeah, Cody literally slacked me. |
| 0:40.0 | He was like, are you sure? |
| 0:42.0 | And I was like, I'm sure. I'm like, okay. |
| 0:45.0 | All right, well, first let's talk about the science. This all comes from a new study from |
| 0:49.0 | Northwestern scientist, Marilyn Cornelis, published in May 2019 in Human Molecular Genetics. |
| 0:54.4 | The study was designed to figure out why people are attracted to sugary drinks like |
| 0:58.8 | soda, lemonade, and sports drinks. That's important because those drinks are the single biggest |
| 1:04.3 | source of added sugar and calories in the US and overconsumption is a major public |
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