Re-release: Origin of Life, Self Control vs Willpower, Puppy Love

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Warner Bros. Discovery

Self-improvement, Science, Astronomy, Education

4.6 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2024

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Today, you’ll learn about a bacterial discovery that challenges our understanding of how and when life formed on Earth, the importance difference between self control and willpower, and the truth about whether or not your dog really loves you.

Origin of Life

•“Scientists Just Made a 1.75 Billion-Year-Old Discovery About the Origin of Life.” by Mirjam Guesgen. 2024.

•“The Great Oxygenation Event as a consequence of ecological dynamics modulated by planetary change.” by Jason Olejarz, et al. 2021.

•“Microbes and minerals may have set off Earth’s oxygenation.” by Jennifer Chu. 2022.

Self Control vs Willpower

•“Most people say self-control is the same as willpower. Researchers disagree.” by Sujata Gupta. 2024.

•“Nearly two in five Americans have a New Year’s Resolution planned for 2021.” Ipsos. 2020.

•“New Year’s resolution statistics.” finder. 2021.

•“What’s inside is all that counts? The contours of everyday thinking about self-control.” by Juan Pablo Bermudez, et al. 2023.

Puppy Love

•“Does Your Dog Truly Love You? Science Has the Answer.” by Adam Piore. 2023.

•“Machine learning gives glimpse of how a dog’s brain represents what it sees.” ScienceDaily. 2022.

•“A glimpse into the dog’s mind: A new study reveals how dogs think of their toys.” by Eotvos Lorand University. 2022.

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1:05.8	Today, you'll learn about a bacterial discovery that challenges our understanding of how and when life formed on Earth,
1:11.6	the important difference between self-control and willpower, and the truth about whether or not
1:16.5	your dog really loves you. Without further ado, let's satisfy some curiosity. For our first story,
1:22.7	I want to take you back a few billion years or so. The Earth's atmosphere was dramatically different,
1:28.9	full of methane instead of oxygen. And as we've talked about a million times on this show,
1:33.9	methane is a pretty potent greenhouse gas. If I remember correctly, methane traps way more heat
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