The Academic Benefits of Emotional Intelligence, Atoms Split in Uneven Shapes, and Wolf Puppies Can Play Fetch

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🗓️ 12 February 2020

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Learn about why students with higher emotional intelligence do better in school; how scientists solved an 80-year mystery of how atoms split; and an adorable discovery that changes what we know about the canine brain. Spoiler: it involves wolf puppies.

The Academic Benefits of Emotional Intelligence by Kelsey Donk

Students do better in school when they can understand, manage emotions. (2019). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-12/apa-sdb121019.php
Pattillo, A. (2019, December 12). This underrated type of intelligence could predict academic success. Inverse. https://www.inverse.com/article/61671-emotional-intelligence-is-key-factor-for-success
Maccann, C., Jiang, Y., Brown, L., Double, K., Bucich, M., & Minbashian, A. (2007). Emotional Intelligence Predicts Academic Performance: A Meta-Analysis. https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/bul-bul0000219.pdf

Atoms Split in Uneven Shapes by Grant Currin

Dooley, P. (2019, December 9). Things go pear-shaped when you split the atom. Cosmosmagazine.Com; Cosmos Magazine. https://cosmosmagazine.com/physics/things-go-pear-shaped-when-you-split-the-atom
Scamps, G., & Simenel, C. (2018). Impact of pear-shaped fission fragments on mass-asymmetric fission in actinides. Nature, 564(7736), 382–385. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0780-0
CrashCourse. (2020). Nuclear Chemistry Part 2 - Fusion and Fission: Crash Course Chemistry #39 [YouTube Video]. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FU6y1XIADdg
University of Tsukuba. (2018, December 20). Why does nuclear fission produce pear-shaped nuclei? Phys.org. https://phys.org/news/2018-12-nuclear-fission-pear-shaped-nuclei.html

Wolf Puppies Can Play Fetch by Steffie Drucker

Scientists unexpectedly witness wolf puppies play fetch. (2020). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-01/cp-suw010920.php
Yong, E. (2016, June 2). The Origin of Dogs: When, Where, and How Many Times Were They Domesticated? The Atlantic. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/06/the-origin-of-dogs/484976/
Hansen Wheat, C., & Temrin, H. (2020). Intrinsic Ball Retrieving in Wolf Puppies Suggests Standing Ancestral Variation for Human-Directed Play Behavior. IScience, 100811. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2019.100811

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0:00.0	Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Curiosity.com.
0:05.7	I'm Cody Goff.
0:06.7	And I'm Ashley Hamer.
0:07.7	Today you learn about why students with greater emotional intelligence do better in school,
0:12.1	how scientists solved an 80-year mystery of how atoms
0:15.1	split, and an adorable discovery that changes what we know about the canine brain.
0:20.1	spoiler, it involves wolf puppies.
0:23.0	Get ready for a cuteness overload.
0:25.0	Let's set us some curiosity.
0:27.0	Your intelligence quotient or IQ isn't everything.
0:32.0	According to new research published in the journal Psychological Bulletin,
0:35.5	High Intelligence is great, but we absolutely have to pay attention to EQ,
0:40.2	as in emotional intelligence.
0:42.8	I mean emotional quotient technically.
0:45.4	But we're going to call it emotional intelligence.
0:47.6	That's what most researchers do.
0:49.0	Yeah.
0:50.0	So the researchers in this study found that students do better in school when they can understand and manage their emotions.
0:56.0	And emotional intelligence is relatively new to academic research.
1:00.0	The concept was first conceived in the 1990s and it refers to your ability to monitor and discriminate between the emotions of both yourself and others and to use that knowledge to guide your actions.
1:12.0	Past research suggests that people with high emotional intelligence
1:16.4	generally perform better at their jobs and experience greater health and well-being throughout
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