Sneezing with Your Eyes Open, How to Think About Wealth, and Why Bird Poop is 2 Colors

Curiosity Weekly

Warner Bros. Discovery

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4.6 • 963 Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2019

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Learn about what would happen if you sneezed with your eyes open; why bird poop is two different colors; and, the right and wrong way to think about wealth.

In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following story from Curiosity.com about what would happen if you sneezed with your eyes open: https://curiosity.im/34KjE9a

Additional sources:

Bird droppings defy expectations | EurekaAlert! — https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-09/uota-bdd092419.php
A re-evaluation of the chemical composition of avian urinary excreta | Journal of Ornithology — https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10336-019-01692-5
The real reason why bird droppings damage your car | The Telegraph — https://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/news/8495819/The-real-reason-why-bird-droppings-damage-your-car.html
Why Is Bird Poop White? | Mental Floss — http://mentalfloss.com/article/31262/why-bird-poop-white
Wealth can lead to more satisfying life if viewed as a sign of success vs. happiness | EurekaAlert! — https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-09/bu-wcl090319.php
The Dual Model of Materialism: Success Versus Happiness Materialism on Present and Future Life Satisfaction | Applied Research in Quality of Life — https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11482-019-09763-8

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0:00.0	Hi, we're here from curiosity
0:02.6	to help you get smarter in just a few minutes.
0:05.2	I'm Cody Gough.
0:05.9	And I'm Ashley Hamer.
0:07.2	Today, you learn about what would happen if you sneezed
0:09.5	with your eyes open, why bird poop is two different colors colors and the right and wrong way to think
0:15.0	about wealth. Let's satisfy some curiosity. When you were a kid were you ever
0:19.0	dared to sneeze with your eyes wide open and were you petrified that if you did your eyeballs might pop out did this happen to you Ashley?
0:26.0	Oh yeah I mean this happened to me until this article was written and then I was like okay I feel safe I think I could try to do it and then I sneezed with my
0:34.9	eyes open you did I did that's why you don't have any eyes that's why I don't have any eyes
0:39.2	wow shocking no but really what would happen if you sneezed with your eyes open?
0:45.0	Clearly, Ashley is still here with us with her eyes.
0:48.0	So don't worry, science tells us there's little truth to the idea that sneezing with your eyes open is dangerous.
0:55.0	Though to be fair, it could protect your eyes from the flying debris.
0:59.0	And there certainly have been claims like the one in 1882, when the New York Times reported that a woman
1:04.8	burst an eyeball during a sneezing fit. But those claims are almost always false.
1:10.8	Not that sneezes aren't violent, a single sneeze can release a gust of air, pressure, and
1:15.8	snot at up to 10 miles per hour. But experts say that the pressure is extremely unlikely to cause
1:22.2	an eyeball to pop out even if your eyes are open.
1:25.0	That's because it's not just your eyelids that keep your eyes in place,
1:29.0	it's the half dozen ocular muscles that surround each one. The worst that can happen is you might
1:35.1	burst a small blood vessel which would leave your eyes looking red and bloodshot.
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