The Universe Might Expand Unevenly, Using a Camera to De-Clutter Your House, and 3 Hominins Lived in the Same Place and Time

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Self-improvement, Science, Astronomy, Education

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🗓️ 12 May 2020

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Learn about a surprising tip for de-cluttering your house; 3 extinct relatives of humans that lived in the same place and time; and why the possibility that the universe might not be expanding at the same rate everywhere is a huge deal.

What's The First Step for De-Cluttering Your House? by Reuben Westmas

The Ohio State University. (2017, June 26). Scientists Find Clever Way to Help You De-Clutter Your Home; The Ohio State University. https://news.osu.edu/scientists-find-clever-way-to-help-you-de-clutter-your-home/
Taking Photos of Experiences Boosts Visual Memory, Impairs Auditory Memory. (2017). Association for Psychological Science - APS. https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/releases/taking-photos-of-experiences-boosts-visual-memory-impairs-auditory-memory.html#.WVKmQBPyufW

Three different hominins lived in the same place and time by Grant Currin

In South Africa, three hominins, including earliest Homo erectus, lived during same period. (2020). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-04/aaft-isa033020.php
Herries, A. I. R., Martin, J. M., Leece, A. B., Adams, J. W., Boschian, G., Joannes-Boyau, R., Edwards, T. R., Mallett, T., Massey, J., Murszewski, A., Neubauer, S., Pickering, R., Strait, D. S., Armstrong, B. J., Baker, S., Caruana, M. V., Denham, T., Hellstrom, J., Moggi-Cecchi, J., … Menter, C. (2020). Contemporaneity of Australopithecus, Paranthropus, and early Homo erectus in South Africa. Science, 368(6486), eaaw7293. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaw7293

The universe might not be expanding at the same rate everywhere by Grant Currin

Doubts about basic assumption for the universe. (2020). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-04/uob-dab040820.php
Migkas, K., Schellenberger, G., Reiprich, T. H., Pacaud, F., Ramos-Ceja, M. E., & Lovisari, L. (2020). Probing cosmic isotropy with a new X-ray galaxy cluster sample through the LX–T scaling relation. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 636, A15. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936602

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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.
0:06.0	I'm Cody Goff.
0:07.0	And I'm Ashley Hamer.
0:08.0	Today you learn about a surprising tip for decluttering your house,
0:11.0	three extinct relatives of humans that lived in the same place in time,
0:15.0	and why the idea that the universe might not be expanding at the same rate everywhere could be a huge deal.
0:21.0	Let's tell us about some curiosity. Can you think of anything you have
0:24.8	sitting around that you need to get rid of but you can't bear to part with?
0:28.4	Maybe it's an old ratty t-shirt that came from the camp where you met your best friend. Or maybe it's that moth-eaten
0:34.9	teddy bear that reminds you of when your kids were a little. But it could be your memories of the
0:39.8	object that are holding you back and not the object itself.
0:44.0	And researchers have found that you can save these memories in a different way
0:48.0	than just by keeping the object around, which is good news if you're in the midst of spring cleaning and you're trying to give yourself some extra space.
0:56.0	See if you can relate to the story of Karen Winterich, an associate professor of marketing at the Ohio State University.
1:02.0	She had a pair of basketball shorts in her
1:04.4	closet for years, long after her high school basketball days were over, but every time
1:10.0	she went to toss them out, she remembered one glorious victory against her school's biggest rivals.
1:15.8	It wasn't the shorts she valued, but the memories they evoked. So she teamed up with
1:21.2	fellow marketing professor Rebecca Reizic and the two came up with a test to determine whether
1:26.2	immortalizing the memory could make it easier to let go of the memento. They started a donation drive in six university residence halls right before students went home for winter break.
1:37.0	Half of the roughly 800 students were presented with an ad campaign that read,
1:42.0	Don't pack up your sentimental clutter,
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