Dark Matter, Spite Houses, Digits of Pi Needed, and Measuring Your Passion and Perseverance

Curiosity Weekly

Warner Bros. Discovery

Self-improvement, Science, Astronomy, Education

4.6 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2018

⏱️ 10 minutes

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In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories from Curiosity.com — and talk to theoretical astrophysicist Katie Mack about dark matter — to help you get smarter and learn something new in just a few minutes:

More from Dr. Katherine “Katie” Mack, theoretical astrophysicist and cosmologist:

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0:00.0	Hi, we've got three stories from Curiosity.com, plus a special guest to help you get smarter in just a few minutes.
0:06.3	I'm Cody Gough.
0:07.1	And I'm Ashley Hamer.
0:08.2	Today you learn about spite houses that were built just to annoy the neighbors,
0:12.2	how many digits of pie we actually need,
0:15.0	and how to measure your passion and perseverance using the grit scale.
0:18.3	We'll top off today's Sunday episode with a sprinkle of curiosity where Ashley digs into a question from an awesome
0:23.0	listener like you. Today's question comes from Kim on Twitter. Kim had some
0:26.7	questions about Dark Matter and I happened to be at a conference last week with some
0:30.5	experts on the subject. Today you'll get some answers from Katie Mack,
0:34.2	a theoretical astrophysicist
0:35.8	who knows a lot about dark matter.
0:37.8	Let's set us some curiosity.
0:39.2	Cody, how many digits of pie do you know off the top of your head?
0:41.9	Is it 3.1417592?
0:44.7	You're getting all the right numbers, but they're in the wrong order.
0:46.7	3.141592.
0:50.0	653.
0:51.3	There's no seven.
0:52.3	9263. I feel like I've been lied to.
0:55.0	What have I memorized my entire childhood?
0:58.0	I'm disappointed.
	...

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