Smartphones Impair You Even When They’re Off, Eco-Friendly Laundry, and How Babies Laugh

Learn about how smartphones hurt your mental performance even when they’re off; how babies and adults laugh differently; and, a simple change you can make to your laundry routine to cut down on pollution.

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:

• Smartphones Dull Your Mental Performance — Even When They're Off — https://curiosity.im/2MLlvUQ
• Scientists Discovered a Simple Laundry Tweak That Can Cut Down on Ocean Pollution — https://curiosity.im/2Wg5lpu

Additional sources:

• How do babies laugh? Like chimps! | EurekaAlert! — https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-11/asoa-hdb110118.php
• How do babies laugh? | The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America — https://asa.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1121/1.5068109
• Only when I laugh: the science of laughter | The Guardian — https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2015/jul/06/only-when-i-laugh-science-laughter-sophie-scott-royal-physiological-society

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Find episode transcript here: https://curiosity-daily-4e53644e.simplecast.com/episodes/smartphones-impair-you-even-when-theyre-off-eco-friendly-laundry-and-how-babies-laugh

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