Hi, we've got two stories from Curiosity.com, plus the answer to a compelling listener question

to help you get smarter in just a few minutes.

I'm Cody Gough.

And I'm Ashley Hamer.

Today you learn why you get sick of your favorite things and how you can make them exciting again.

What bowling balls and neutron stars have in common?

And we'll answer the legendary question, is water wet?

Let's satisfy some curiosity.

All right Ashley, what's the last thing you got sick of?

I don't get sick of very many things.

In case you haven't noticed, I eat the exact same thing for lunch every single day.

I'm so weirdly the same way if I had to eat lean ground

turkey meat or chicken and veggies every day that would be it. Yeah I don't know what it is.

You don't have to think about it. But not everybody's like us. So today we've got a

simple trick to help you keep your favorite experiences feeling fresh and new.

Nice. And this isn't really about fighting off something called hedonic adaptation, also called the hedonic treadmill.

It has the treadmill nickname because it's talking about how you get back to a stable level of happiness even after something really good or really bad happens in your life.

It's like if you're on a treadmill and a trip or something you eventually go back to that regular speed.

And to give you an idea of how big of a thing this is, one study showed that people who

won the lottery weren't even very much happier than they were in the first place

a full year after they won the lottery.

Even a million bucks gets old.

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