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Why You’re Bad at Fact-Checking, Reducing Anxiety with Horror Movies, and Why Urine is Yellow

Curiosity Weekly

Warner Bros. Discovery

Science

4.6963 Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2018

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Learn about the Moses Illusion, which shows how your brain processes information; why urine is yellow; and how watching horror movies can help reduce anxiety.

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:

  • Buy ANOMIA on Amazon — https://amazon.com (please support our sponsors!)
  • The Moses Illusion Shows How Bad You Are at Fact-Checking
  • Why is Pee a Shade of Yellow, No Matter What You Eat or Drink?
  • Suffer From Anxiety? There's a Horror Movie for That

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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.

0:05.8

I'm Cody Gough.

0:06.7

And I'm Ashley Hamer.

0:07.8

Today you learn about an illusion that shows how your brain processes information,

0:12.3

YP is yellow, and how watching horror movies can help reduce anxiety.

0:17.0

Let's satisfy some curiosity on the award-winning curiosity daily.

0:21.0

We've got three trivia questions for you. Are you ready?

0:24.0

Question one, how many of each animal did Moses take on the arc? Question two, what's the

0:30.8

nationality of Thomas Edison, the inventor of the telephone?

0:34.0

Question 3, what were the first words uttered by Louis Armstrong when he set foot on the moon?

0:39.0

Let's recap and see how you did.

0:41.0

How many of each animal did Moses take on the

0:43.7

ark? You might have said two, but Moses didn't take animals on the ark. That was

0:48.4

NOAA. For number two, what's the nationality of Thomas Edison, the inventor of the telephone? You might have said

0:54.3

American, but Thomas Edison didn't invent the telephone. That was Alexander Graham Bell.

0:59.8

And what were the first words uttered by Louis Armstrong when he set foot on the moon?

1:04.4

Your answer might have been, one small step for man, but that answer is a giant leap.

1:09.2

Louis, Louis is a legendary trumpet player whose name is actually pronounced Lewis.

1:14.0

Well he pronounced his own name Lewis.

1:16.0

Yeah, there we go.

1:17.0

Neil Armstrong was the first man in the moon.

1:20.0

So why did the questions fool you?

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