Hi, we've got three stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter in just a few minutes.

I'm Cody Gough.

And I'm Ashley Hamer.

Today you'll learn about the longest lunar eclipse of the century, which is happening this week,

a mental trick that might help you enjoy running and a psychological phenomenon called perceptual creep

Let's satisfy some curiosity kody. Do you know what this week is?

Podcast movement 2018. Oh yeah?

Yeah that's all I know.

Well, this Friday, July 27th, most of the world will see the longest lunar eclipse of the century.

Shout out to our awesome listeners in South America. longest lunar eclipse of the century.

Shout out to our awesome listeners in South America, Australia,

and basically everywhere in between,

except the United States.

Waw.

Here in the US, we got front row seats to the solar eclipse last year, but we're going to miss this lunar eclipse altogether.

Why though? First, here's a quick refresher. A lunar eclipse is when the moon passes into the Earth's shadow.

Since we're blocking the sun from the moon, the sun's light waves have to come through

our atmosphere to make it to the moon during the eclipse.

Because of that, only long wavelengths of red light make it to the moon.

And that makes the moon reflect a deep crimson, which looks super cool.

But you know how we've talked about super moons and how they happen when the moon is closest to the Earth?

Well, this lunar eclipse is actually happening

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