Tag: study

• Eating Ants

  Findings published in the journal Evolution reveal that mammals independently evolved specialized adaptations for exclusively feeding on ants and termites at least 12 times since the Cenozoic era began, roughly 66 million years ago. Why? And what does that …

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  August 22, 2025Episodes

• Cool vs Good

  What are the characteristics that make someone cool? How about good? Is there overlap? Can someone be both cool and good? Anthony and Jeff look at a new study that aims to quantify the attributes most associated with cool …

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  August 15, 2025Episodes

• Tales From the Crypt

  For 60 years, between 1637 and 1697, people who died at the largest hospital in Milan were dropped into a brick-lined crypt. Now, 300 years later, their unearthed remains reveal shocking insights into the lives of the 17th century …

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  July 11, 2025Episodes

• Silence is Golden

  New research aims to quality the health effects of silence. It turns out, just a few hours of quiet time per week can have striking benefits. Anthony and Jeff discuss their own relationship with silence, and how this study …

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  July 4, 2025Episodes

• The Walking Dead

  A new study places the US at the top of the list of most fatal countries to be a pedestrian. Anthony and Jeff take a look at all the reasons it is so dangerous to walk in America, and …

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  May 6, 2025Episodes

• Move with the Crowd

  Researchers have discovered that dense crowds can spontaneously synchronize into collective oscillations, with hundreds of people moving in coordinated, swirling patterns. How did they do it? By studying the Spanish tradition of running with the bulls. Jeff and Anthony …

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  April 7, 2025Episodes

• Try to Imagine It

  People with aphantasia lack the ability to summon images in their “mind’s eye.” But a new study suggests that the blueprints for those imaginary images might still be nestled in their brains. As someone with aphantasia himself, Anthony tries …

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  April 3, 2025Episodes

• AI vs Critical Thinking

  The rise of AI has directly resulted in diminishing levels of critical thinking, epseically among young people, a new study shows. Anthony and Jeff discuss how relying on technology must be paired with new ways of thinking, and the …

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  March 10, 2025Episodes

• Generation Lead

  A new study published in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry found that one generation in particular has higher exposure to unsafe levels of lead than all others. It just happens to be Jeff and Anthony’s generation: Gen …

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  March 3, 2025Episodes

• Showers for Health: Hot or Cold?

  Much has been made about taking a cold shower in the morning vs a hot one. A new study aims to measure the health benefit of these different temperature extremes for daily washing. Anthony and Jeff get into a …

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  February 24, 2025Episodes