Why Is Fluffy Looking At Me Like That?

Live from the Poundstone Institute

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4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2017

⏱️ 32 minutes

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This week, we talk to a scientist who does feline personality profiling--also known as purrsonality profiling--and we learn what big cats and small cats have in common. Plus: we talk to a man who's getting implanted with a microchip to make purchasing snacks easier. And comedian Tig Notaro joins us to take our personality test.

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0:00.0	Gregory Warner here to tell you about NPR's new international podcast called
0:05.3	Rough Translation. Each week we're going to take you to a different country to hear a
0:09.3	story that reflects back on something that we are talking about here in the United States. Maybe get a
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0:19.8	get your podcast. Statistics from the CDC are out and they tell us that cows, yes sweet placid cows, kill five times more people each year than sharks.
0:40.0	Wow!
0:41.0	Yeah.
0:42.0	Apparently they do it in the water as well though. Yeah. Apparently they do it in the water as well though.
0:44.0	Yeah.
0:45.0	Because you know in the water you're expecting a shark.
0:50.0	And so you know you think, oh, get away, but you see a cow coming at you.
0:57.3	Maybe you don't even see them because they don't have the fin.
0:59.9	Right.
1:00.7	Well, okay, here's something that maybe is not good about this research.
1:04.6	You know, look at, when they find a shark in the water,
1:08.2	they, you know, they clear, everybody, you know, everybody out of the water,
1:11.4	there's a shark, but when was the last time someone
1:13.3	cleared a field right right oh on the field get out of there
1:19.0	get out of there man we've traced the call that moo is coming from inside the house.
1:25.0	Get out!
1:30.0	Yeah, I, you know, I can't imagine being stomped by cow either. They're not, are they that fast? Oh, I guess they're fast, right?
1:39.0	Well, bulls are fast. Well, bulls, but are we distinguishing between, because cows don't have horns, right?
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