Why You Should Face Your Fears, Rekindling Romance with Cute Animals, and Naming Black Holes

Curiosity Weekly

Warner Bros. Discovery

Self-improvement, Science, Astronomy, Education

4.6 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2018

⏱️ 8 minutes

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0:00.0	Hi, we've got three stories from Curiosity.com to help we 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'll learn about new brain research that shows why you should face your fears.
0:10.6	We'll give you a reason to look at cute animal pictures for science and we'll answer a
0:14.9	listener question about how black holes get their names.
0:17.8	That's satisfy some curiosity.
0:18.8	Ashley, are you a sucker for cat videos?
0:20.8	Always.
0:21.8	Really? I take a few of my own too. My cat has an
0:25.6	Instagram actually. Your cat has an Instagram. Yeah, yeah. That's impressive.
0:29.4	Because she's the cutest cat in the world. What is your cat's Instagram? My cat's Instagram is
0:34.3	Aglet is tiny all one word AGL E T. We'll put a link in the show notes.
0:39.3	I'm not a big Instagrammer so I haven't experienced this but I have seen cat videos and
0:45.1	new research says looking at cute pictures of animals could help you rekindle your
0:48.3	romance. Researchers at Florida State University had 144 couples fill out marital satisfaction
0:53.9	surveys. Over the next six weeks they showed the couples pictures of
0:57.3	their partner smiling interspersed with other pictures. Some of the pictures were
1:01.2	neutral like a picture of a button, but other pictures were of adorable animals.
1:06.0	The researchers actually didn't expect that this would make a difference at all,
1:10.0	they're really low expectations.
1:12.0	And yet, the study found over the course of those experiments
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