Spoilers Don’t Spoil Stories, Why Some Colors Look Brighter, and Pre-Dinosaur Fossil Finds

Curiosity Weekly

Warner Bros. Discovery

Self-improvement, Science, Astronomy, Education

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🗓️ 7 April 2019

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Learn about how the first dinosaur fossil was named before we had a word for dinosaurs; why the “spoiler paradox” says we actually enjoy a story more when we know the ending; and why some colors look brighter than others.

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:

The First Dinosaur Fossil Was Named Before We Had A Word For Dinosaurs — https://curiosity.im/2HZtwDy
Knowing the Ending Makes a Story Better, Not Worse, Says the Spoiler Paradox — https://curiosity.im/2HYS67R

Additional resources discussed:

Theories of Colour Vision | University of Calgary — https://psyc.ucalgary.ca/PACE/VA-Lab/colourperceptionweb/theories.htm
Rods and Cones | Georgia State University — http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/vision/rodcone.html
Spectral Sensitivity | Hanover College — https://isle.hanover.edu/Ch03Eye/Ch03PurkinjieSim_evt.html

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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 Guff.
0:06.0	And I'm Ashley Hamer.
0:07.0	Today you learn about how the first dinosaur fossil was named before we had a word for dinosaurs
0:12.0	and why the spoiler paradox says we actually enjoy
0:15.1	a story more when we know the ending. We'll also answer a listener question about
0:19.0	why some colors look brighter than others. Let's satisfy some curiosity.
0:22.4	Here's a some curiosity.
0:23.0	Here's a fun fact.
0:24.2	The first dinosaur fossil was named before we
0:27.1	had a word for dinosaurs.
0:29.0	Here's the story.
0:30.2	Robert Plot gets the credit for discovering
0:32.4	the first dinosaur bone in 1677,
0:35.0	but at the time his best guess as to what it belonged to was a giant human.
0:40.0	A dinosaur fossil wasn't correctly identified for what it was until the days of William Buckland, the first professor of geology at Oxford University.
0:48.0	Buckland was said to have a colorful personality and taught his classes, quote,
0:52.8	like a Franciscan preacher, unquote.
0:55.4	During one class, a student recounted
0:57.3	that he paced up and down the lecture hall,
0:59.1	holding a hyena skull, thrusting it
1:01.3	in student's faces and shouting,
	...

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