What Defines Fruits and Veggies, Why Open Offices Are Bad, and Moon Landing Anniversary
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 935 Ratings
🗓️ 20 July 2018
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter and learn something new in just a few minutes:
- There's a Scientific Reason Open Offices Are So Quiet, and It's Not Good
- The First Men on the Moon Almost Didn't Make It There
- What Counts as a Fruit and What Counts as a Vegetable? It's Not What You Think
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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. |
| 0:04.8 | I'm Cody Gough. And I'm Ashley Hamer. |
| 0:06.7 | Today we'll celebrate the 49th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing with a look back at the computer |
| 0:12.0 | overload that almost stopped us from |
| 0:13.8 | getting there. You'll also learn why open office setups are bad and we'll answer a |
| 0:18.2 | listener question about the difference between berries and fruit. |
| 0:21.0 | What does that says some curiosity? |
| 0:22.0 | Ashley, have you ever worked at a job where you had your own office? |
| 0:25.0 | Never. |
| 0:26.0 | Wouldn't that be nice? |
| 0:27.0 | That would be so nice. |
| 0:28.0 | I feel like that's what you always think is going to happen when you're a kid. |
| 0:31.8 | And maybe it did when someone was a kid. |
| 0:34.4 | But I don't think it happens anymore. |
| 0:35.6 | I've never had a job in my adult life where I have access to this podcast studio. |
| 0:39.9 | Just sort of like an office. |
| 0:41.4 | Yeah, I guess, kind of. |
| 0:42.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:43.5 | About three quarters of offices in the US |
| 0:45.6 | are open offices. |
| 0:46.7 | And if you think that's because they're really great for employees, |
| 0:49.7 | then we've got news for you. |
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