Supernormal Stimuli

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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Social Sciences, Life Sciences, Natural Sciences, Science

4.3 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2014

⏱️ 34 minutes

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No longer limited by the constrains of their environment or biology, humans have remade their world. Why walk when you can soar? Why shout when you can whisper in the ear of a listener halfway round the world? And why limit yourself to normal stimuli when

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:03.4	Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind from How StuffWorks.com.
0:16.7	Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind.
0:18.7	My name is Robert Lamb.
0:20.0	And I'm Julie Douglas.
0:21.4	And today is an episode where we can call out a particular listener for suggesting it.
0:26.6	Yeah, listener, Serena, she sent us this excellent Life Hacker article about why we feel the need to fill our pie holes and our eye holes with exaggerated versions of stimuli
0:40.0	every day.
0:40.9	Yeah, and this started up because you think life hacker, you think, I'm reading a life hacker
0:45.1	article and I'm going to be able to better equip to sort of make the best out of my day.
0:49.1	You know, just kind of an uplifting aspect of that.
0:52.4	And so I don't know about you, but I entered into this topic with that sort of idea in
0:56.8	mind.
0:57.0	Like, oh, it's just a little quirky insight into how we go about our daily lives and maybe
1:00.6	how we might improve it a little bit.
1:02.1	But I found this topic to be one of the more ultimately disturbing topics that we've
1:07.9	looked at, like this condemning of human nature and sort of makes you want to
1:12.5	crawl into a cave to a certain extent.
1:15.0	Yeah, because you're right.
1:16.1	The premise was like, hey, we all love cheesecake, right?
1:19.0	It's delicious.
1:20.3	It's fatty.
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