Your Brain Doesn’t Want You to Lose Weight, The Moon Museum, Life Lessons from Runner Karl Meltzer, and Wolves Don’t Howl at the Moon
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 935 Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2018
⏱️ 10 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:
- Your Weight Has a "Set Point" That Your Brain Thinks Is Best
- The Most Exclusive Museum in the Galaxy May Be on the Moon
- 5 Life Lessons from Karl Meltzer, the Runner Who Set an Appalachian Trail Speed Record
Additional resources discussed:
- A note on the effect of the full moon on the activity of wild maned wolves, Chrysocyon brachyurus | ScienceDirect
- Why Do Wolves Howl? And Other Top Wolf Questions Answered | Smithsonian’s National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute
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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. |
| 0:05.3 | I'm Cody Gough. |
| 0:06.3 | And I'm Ashley Hamer. |
| 0:07.3 | Today you learn about a tiny museum that might be on the moon, why your brain doesn't want you to |
| 0:11.8 | lose weight and how to work around it? |
| 0:13.4 | And some life lessons from Carl Melzer, the runner who set an Appalachian Trail Speed record. |
| 0:18.6 | We'll top off this Sunday with a sprinkle of curiosity where we dig into a question from an awesome |
| 0:23.0 | listening like you. Today's question comes from Dave who asks, |
| 0:26.0 | Do wolves really howl of the moon? |
| 0:28.0 | Stay tuned for the answer. |
| 0:29.1 | Let's satisfy some curiosity. |
| 0:30.5 | Cody, do you tend to have a hard time losing weight? I've always had a fast |
| 0:33.3 | missabolism but boy has it gotten slower over the years. Well that'll happen. |
| 0:37.1 | High school is out of control when I ran cross country. Yeah I bet. |
| 0:40.3 | Let's go to Taco Bell and spend $15. |
| 0:43.2 | Do you know how much food $15 can buy you at Taco Bell? |
| 0:47.7 | A lot of food, I'd imagine. |
| 0:49.3 | I would eat all of it, and I was, as my mom said, |
| 0:51.9 | skinny as a drip. Teenagers hated me I've had a harder time gaining weight oh like muscle and yeah putting on muscle mass is very difficult for me |
| 1:00.9 | I don't know about you it's not difficult for me. I don't know about you. It's not difficult for me. |
| 1:03.6 | To put on a lot of muscle mass very easily actually. For a lady? I know you're |
| 1:08.3 | jacked and you can beat me up but you don't have to rub it in my face. But it's bad for running, like you need to be lighter on your feet. |
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