Learning From Friends, Hair & Heart, Feeding Weeds
Curiosity Weekly · Warner Bros. Discovery
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Show Notes
Today, you’ll learn about how we learn the same information differently from people we like than from those we don’t like, a drug men already take that could have incredible added benefits, and a weed that could feed a hungry world.
Learning From Friends
- “The brain is ‘programmed’ for learning from people we like.” Lund University. 2024.
- “Ingroup sources enhance associative inference.” by Marius Boeltzig. 2023.
Hair & Heart
- “Common hair loss and prostate drug may also cut heart disease risk in men and mice.” by Lauren Quinn. 2024.
- “Finasteride delays atherosclerosis progression in mice and is associated with a reduction in plasma cholesterol in men.” by Patrick McQueen, et al. 2024.
Feeding Weeds
- “Common plant could help reduce food insecurity, researchers find.” by Jeff Mulhollem. 2024.
- “Food Resilience in the Face of Catastrophic Global Events.” Penn State University. N.d.
- “What You Need to Know About Food Security and Climate Change.” Worldbank. 2022.
- “Valorizing staple Native American food plants as a food resilience resource.” by Daniel J. Winstead, et al. 2023.
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