Tips to Win an Argument, How to Wash Your Hands, and Summer Blockbuster Origins

Curiosity Weekly

Warner Bros. Discovery

Self-improvement, Science, Astronomy, Education

4.6 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2018

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

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:

Presenting Too Much Evidence Could Make You Lose an Argument
You Can Thank the Invention of Air Conditioning for the Summer Blockbuster
Washing Your Hands With Cold Water Is Just as Effective

For more persuasion tips and tricks, check out "Thank You for Arguing, Third Edition: What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us About the Art of Persuasion" by Jay Heinrichs. And the story of air conditioning isn't all good news: check out "Cool Comfort: America's Romance with Air-Conditioning" by Marsha Ackermann to see how A/C changed the world — and not always for the better.

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0:00.0	Hi, we've got three stories from curiosity
0:03.0	dot com to help you get smarter in just a few minutes.
0:05.1	I'm Cody Gough.
0:05.9	And I'm Ashley Hamer.
0:07.0	Today you learn how one invention is responsible for the summer
0:09.8	blockbuster, why presenting too much evidence could make you lose an argument and how to wash your hands.
0:15.0	Let's satisfy some curiosity.
0:17.0	All right Ashley, what's your strategy for winning arguments?
0:19.0	Like I know what you're about to tell me is, says that I'm wrong but I I will present every piece of evidence
0:26.3	that do you really yeah oh yeah I'm a I'm a link queen yikes I've definitely
0:32.2	been guilty of that in the past, but after writing this article, I am definitely going to stop doing that.
0:37.5	So science says that presenting too much evidence could make you lose in argument.
0:43.0	And I'm going to tell you why with a list of 75 reasons.
0:46.3	L-O-L-J-K.
0:47.3	That's funny.
0:48.3	No, but really this is a thing.
0:52.0	If you've ever been arguing on Facebook or Reddit
0:54.9	and most of the comments are like, well, here's a point,
0:57.4	or here's an idea, or here's my one point of view,
1:00.2	and then you get that one comment that is just a wall of text.
1:05.0	You know what I'm talking about. I know you've seen these.
1:07.5	Like, totally written these.
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