Socializing Too Much, Rogue Planets, Ancient Persian AC
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Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 963 Ratings
🗓️ 29 November 2021
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Learn about how socializing too much can be bad for your health; rogue planets without a home star; and ancient bâdgirs.
Socializing too much can be bad for your health by Steffie Drucker
- Research Shows Too Much Socializing Can Harm You. (2021). Psychology Today. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/finding-new-home/202110/research-shows-too-much-socializing-can-harm-you
- Stavrova, O., & Ren, D. (2020). Is More Always Better? Examining the Nonlinear Association of Social Contact Frequency With Physical Health and Longevity. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 194855062096158. https://doi.org/10.1177/1948550620961589
Rogue Planets Wander The Galaxy Without A Star To Call Home by Ashley Hamer
- Drake, N. (2014, March 13). A Guide to Lonely Planets in the Galaxy. Science; National Geographic. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/a-guide-to-lonely-planets-in-the-galaxy?loggedin=true
- Gough, E. (2021, October). Rogue Planets Could be Habitable - Universe Today. Universe Today. https://www.universetoday.com/152785/rogue-planets-could-be-habitable/
- Schulze-Makuch, D. (2021, August 24). The Astrobiological Potential of Rogue Planets. Air & Space Magazine; Air & Space Magazine. https://www.airspacemag.com/daily-planet/astrobiological-potential-rogue-planets-180978507/
Ancient Persian "wind catchers" could help us beat the heat better than air conditioning by Grant Currin
- Kimiya Shokoohi. (2021). The ancient Persian way to keep cool. Bbc.com. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210810-the-ancient-persian-way-to-keep-cool
- Carey, T. (2021, September 22). Is ancient technology better than modern air conditioning? Freethink; Freethink Media. https://www.freethink.com/environment/wind-catchers
- Cooling Stadiums at the 2022 FIFA World Cup - Free Running Buildings. (2021, July). Free Running Buildings. https://freerunningbuildings.com/cooling-stadiums-at-the-2022-fifa-world-cup/
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Discovery. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm Cody Gough. |
| 0:07.0 | And I'm Ashley Hamer. |
| 0:08.0 | Today you learn about how socializing too much can be bad for your health, |
| 0:12.0 | rogue planets that wander the galaxy without a |
| 0:14.6 | home star, and how ancient Persian technology could help us fight climate change. |
| 0:20.0 | Let's satisfy some curiosity. |
| 0:25.0 | Human beings are social animals. |
| 0:30.0 | And as a result, socializing tends to make us healthier and happier, while isolation can cause harm. |
| 0:32.8 | But a new study suggests that you can have too much of a good thing. |
| 0:37.2 | As in socializing too much can be bad for your health. |
| 0:42.0 | To find this out, social psychologists from Tilburg University |
| 0:45.2 | in the Netherlands reviewed 16 years of data from the European Social Survey. |
| 0:50.3 | That's a biennial survey that measures different aspects of people's beliefs and behaviors. |
| 0:57.0 | Roughly,000 people in their 30s to their 60s took the survey between 2002 and 2018. |
| 1:06.0 | When they crunched the data, the researchers were most interested in how often participants |
| 1:11.5 | socialized with friends, relatives, and colleagues. |
| 1:15.5 | They compared that frequency to their rating of their physical health. And when researchers plotted it out on a graph, it looked a bit like a squashed bell curve. |
| 1:26.1 | At first, physical health seemed to improve with more frequent social contact, |
| 1:31.5 | but after a certain point, the line plateaued, which suggests that the benefits |
| 1:37.0 | wore off once people were socializing several times per week. |
| 1:41.8 | So socializing more than several times a week doesn't help your |
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