The Science of Hauntings, Sleep Deprivation Effects, and Maximizing Benefits From Nature
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 963 Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2018
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Learn how much your work suffers when you’re sleep deprived; the scientific reason why some places feel like they’re haunted by ghosts; and how to get the most benefits from being surrounded by nature.
In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories to help you get smarter and learn something new in just a few minutes:
- Here's How Much Your Work Suffers When You're Sleep Deprived
- Got a Ghost Problem? It Might Just Be Infrasound
- For the Biggest Benefit From Being in Nature, Get Wild
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, we've got three stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter in just a few minutes. |
| 0:05.4 | I'm Cody Gough. And I'm Ashley Hamer. Today you learn how much your work suffers when you're |
| 0:09.7 | sleep deprived, the scientific reason why some places feel like they're haunted, and how to get the most |
| 0:15.3 | benefits from being surrounded by nature. Let's satisfy some curiosity on the award-winning |
| 0:20.0 | Curiosity Daily. According to a new study, sleep deprivation could make you |
| 0:24.4 | incompetent on the job. It might sound kind of obvious, sure, but how incompetent is |
| 0:29.5 | another question altogether. I feel like sleep is a big theme on this podcast. |
| 0:35.0 | Do you think that's because of me? |
| 0:37.0 | Because of how much of that I do? |
| 0:40.0 | Well, I think everyone does a lot of it. |
| 0:42.6 | Everyone, that's true, everybody does a lot of it. |
| 0:45.6 | Well, here's why this study matters. |
| 0:47.6 | What you think of as busy work or standard procedure |
| 0:51.7 | can have huge implications. |
| 0:54.0 | Remember the 1986 nuclear disaster at Chernobyl? |
| 0:57.5 | How about the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spell, |
| 1:00.7 | which poured 11 million gallons of oil into waters near Alaska. |
| 1:05.0 | Both of those were reportedly caused by sleep-deprived people making procedural mistakes. |
| 1:10.0 | So this study really drives home the idea that while work life balance is pretty important, |
| 1:14.6 | sleep life balance is a big deal too. This study had 234 college-aged participants go through |
| 1:21.0 | a made-up protocol called unravel. |
| 1:23.4 | That's an acronym for the different stuff they did in the protocol, like the letter |
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