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🗓️ 11 June 2018
⏱️ 8 minutes
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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:
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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. |
| 0:04.8 | I'm Cody Gough. |
| 0:05.8 | And I'm Ashley Hamer. |
| 0:06.8 | Today you learn about whether you should kill spiders in your home, everyday food and drinks |
| 0:10.5 | with weird medical origins, and how to motivate yourself to exercise when you're depressed. |
| 0:15.0 | What's satisfy some curiosity? |
| 0:17.0 | Okay, Cody, you find a spider in your house. |
| 0:19.0 | What do you do? |
| 0:20.0 | I kill it before my wife sees it. |
| 0:22.0 | Oh, wow. I never kill spiders really never |
| 0:25.4 | Do you like put it on your finger and then walk it outside? Oh I don't put it on my finger it'll crawl over my arm that way I usually get a little cup and I get a little piece of paper and I trap it and I put it outside. |
| 0:36.7 | It turns out that science says that I'm in the right here. |
| 0:40.2 | Really? Yeah, you need spiders in your home. |
| 0:42.8 | Well, yeah, because they eat other bugs, right? |
| 0:44.8 | They do, and they're actually not dangerous. |
| 0:47.2 | They're just, they're kind of good for your, most of them are good for your home. |
| 0:50.9 | Very few of the 400,000 known spider species are capable of |
| 0:55.6 | harming humans. Even spider bites are actually extremely rare. A lot of the |
| 0:59.6 | times when people think that they have spider bites they actually have bites |
| 1:02.1 | from a different |
| 1:02.8 | insect really yeah North Carolina State University entomologist Matt Bertone |
| 1:07.6 | conducted a survey of 50 North Carolina homes to see which spiders are living under our roofs. |
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