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 how being an only child can fundamentally change the structure of your

brain, the weird things that happen to you when you

binge watch a show, and you'll hear what biologists say a talking monkey would

sound like. What's that I saw some curiosity?

Cody, what's the last show you binge watched? The closest I've come to binge watching recently is when I

showed my wife the first episode of Game of Thrones thinking let me show you what this show is like.

Yeah, and then four episodes later. Oh wow. It was well into the wee hours of the morning. I mean those are long episodes. That would be a binge yeah for sure. How about you? Yeah, I'm not a big binge watcher, but I will watch shows without watching any other shows in between, if that makes sense.

Yeah. Like if I'm watching a show, I don't watch an episode of this show, and an episode of of that show it's always just that show but

honestly it's it maxes out at like two episodes in a row yeah well

binge watching is big these days according to Netflix more than 90% of

their subscribers have binge watched at least one series, which they define

as watching at least one season of a show within a week. There's even a thing called

binge racing, which is where you try to be the first person to finish an entire season of a show within 24 hours of its release.

So today we want to get into what actually happens to you when you're binge watching a show.

First, the positive. It's a stress reliever. A TV show Binge can set up a great boundary to keep your troubles at bay, according to Dr. John Mayer, a clinical psychologist with Doctor on demand.

Binging also builds community and can help you build relationships with people you don't have a lot in common with since you can talk about it. And believe it or not, binge watching can be good for your job, according to psychologist Dr. Renee Carr.

She said that if your favorite character is a virtual role model for you, then that could be a good thing.

Probably not such a good thing if you're thinking about becoming Walter White from Breaking Bad, but otherwise a good thing.

But on the flip side, there are psychological dangers that go along with binge watching.

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