Your Exposome Germ Cloud, The Tree That Owns Itself, and Bosses Don’t Encourage Curiosity
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 963 Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2018
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Learn about your exposome, the friendly cloud of germs that surrounds you; why bosses don’t encourage curiosity as much as they think they do (and what that’s a bad thing); and the aptly named Tree That Owns Itself in Athens, Georgia.
In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter and learn something new in just a few minutes:
- Your Exposome Is the Friendly Cloud of Germs That Surrounds You
- Bosses Don't Encourage Curiosity as Much as They Think They Do
- There's a Tree That Owns Itself in Athens, Georgia
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| 0:00.0 | The famous five are away on a splendid weekend adventure. |
| 0:03.5 | Do we have to go home today? |
| 0:05.5 | sighed Anne. |
| 0:06.5 | I agree said Dick. |
| 0:08.0 | Even Timmy looks sad. |
| 0:09.5 | Cheer up everyone. |
| 0:11.5 | Beams Julian, I booked long weekend tickets we can return anytime on Monday |
| 0:17.0 | Oh you are clever Julian said Anne save over 50% with the long weekend a ticket from Great Western Railway. |
| 0:24.5 | Adventures start here. |
| 0:26.0 | Selected routes turn supply, saving in comparison to an anytime return fare. |
| 0:30.0 | Hi, we've got three stories from Curiosity.com to help it get smarter in just a few minutes. |
| 0:37.5 | I'm Cody Goff. |
| 0:38.4 | And I'm Ashley Hamer. |
| 0:39.5 | Today you learn about the friendly cloud of germs that surrounds you, why bosses don't |
| 0:43.8 | encourage curiosity as much as they think they do, and why there's a tree in Georgia |
| 0:48.2 | that owns itself. Let's satisfy some curiosity on the award-winning Curiosity Daily that also owns itself. |
| 0:54.4 | You've probably heard of the microbiome, that's the collection of microscopic |
| 0:59.4 | organisms that make their homes deep within your body. They're just as much your friend as they are your foe. |
| 1:04.8 | Well guess what? There's also a cloud of microorganisms that surrounds you everywhere you go. |
| 1:10.3 | And we just developed a new way to explore it. |
| 1:12.6 | This is so cool to me. |
| 1:14.1 | Yeah, it's super cool. |
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