The Butterfly Effect Is Why We Can’t Predict Weather, How to Cry at Work, and Eggcorns

Curiosity Weekly

Warner Bros. Discovery

Self-improvement, Science, Astronomy, Education

4.6 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2018

⏱️ 7 minutes

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In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories to help you get smarter and learn something new in just a few minutes:

The Butterfly Effect Is Why It's Impossible to Predict the Weather
- To dive deeper into chaos theory, check out "Chaos: Making a New Science" by Rob Shapiro and James Gleick: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/321477/chaos-by-james-gleick/
Here's How Scientists Are Using Machine Learning to Predict the Unpredictable
"Eggcorns" Are Language Mistakes That Somehow Still Make Sense
How to Handle It When You Get Emotional at Work, According to Science

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0:00.0	Hi, we've got three stories from curiosity.com to help you get smarter in just a few minutes. I'm
0:05.6	Cody Gough.
0:06.6	And I'm Ashley Hamer. Today you learn why it's impossible to predict the weather, what
0:10.6	to do when you feel like you're going to cry at work and why common language
0:14.4	mistakes somehow still makes sense.
0:16.4	Let's let us find some curiosity.
0:17.9	Cody, how about this weather, huh?
0:19.6	I will say I did not check the weather forecast and realize that it was going to be pouring rain this afternoon.
0:27.0	Yeah, and we happen to have a drain pipe going right through the room.
0:32.0	It's like a rainstick in here.
0:34.0	It's weird.
0:35.0	You can just hear everything.
0:36.0	Well, if the microphones pick it up, then
0:38.0	listeners can just relax.
0:40.0	Like it's one of those white noise machines the play of rainforest.
0:44.3	Yeah, no I don't usually check the weather forecast do you?
0:47.8	I recently got an app that's making me a little bit more into it.
0:50.9	It always gives me notifications when it's going to rain, but it's not always
0:54.6	super accurate. I feel like meteorologists get a bad rap. Yeah, well they have a lot of challenges.
1:01.0	If you've ever wondered why it's impossible to predict the weather, then you've come to the right place.
1:05.0	A few months ago on our podcast, we talked about the butterfly effect.
1:08.0	That's the idea that a butterfly can flap its wings in Brazil and set off a tornado in Texas.
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