Share
))
Mental strength is the key to living your best life. Join host Amy Morin, a psychotherapist and international best-selling author to learn the tools, tips, and strategies that will help you think, feel, and do your best in life. On Mondays, she interviews experts, authors, entrepreneurs, athletes, musicians, and celebrities about the strategies they use to overcome the biggest battle we all face — the battle within our own minds. She then breaks down their strategies in "The Therapist's Take ...
…
continue reading
Basketball Positions, Self-Healing Plastic, IQ Decline
Manage episode 361806615 series 2659655
Content provided by Emily Servodidio. All podcast content including episodes, graphics, and podcast descriptions are uploaded and provided directly by Emily Servodidio or their podcast platform partner. If you believe someone is using your copyrighted work without your permission, you can follow the process outlined here https://cloudutil.player.fm/legal.
Today you’ll learn about how fruit flies are inspiring new forms of gameplay in basketball, how IQ levels are falling around the country, and a potential solution to difficult-to-recycle plastics!
Basketball Positions
- “Physics model could optimize basketball player positioning” by Kathy Hovis
- https://phys.org/news/2023-03-physics-optimize-basketball-player-positioning.html
- “Fruit flies and electrons: Researchers use physics to predict crowd behavior” by Linda B. Glaser
- https://phys.org/news/2018-08-fruit-flies-electrons-physics-crowd.html
- “Density-functional fluctuation theory of crowds” by J. Felipe Méndez-Valderrama et al.
- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-05750-z#Abs1
Self-Healing Plastic
- “Researchers build hard, self-healing plastic that can be reshaped and recycled” by Wageningen University
- https://phys.org/news/2023-03-hard-self-healing-plastic-reshaped-recycled.html
- “Hard plastics can be recycled if they are constructed differently” by Maarten Smulders
- https://www.wur.nl/en/news-wur/show-home/hard-plastics-can-be-recycled-if-they-are-constructed-differently.htm
IQ Decline
- “Historic decline in IQ could stem from poor education, study shows” by Shelby Kearns
- “Looking for Flynn effects in a recent online U.S. adult sample: Examining shifts within the SAPA Project” by Elizabeth M. Dworak et al.
- “Online tests suggest IQ scores in US dropped for the first time in nearly a century” by Bob Yirka
- “IQ Scores In The US Have Recently Dropped For First Time This Century” by Tom Hale
Follow Curiosity Daily on your favorite podcast app to get smarter with Calli and Nate — for free! Still curious? Get exclusive science shows, nature documentaries, and more real-life entertainment on discovery+! Go to https://discoveryplus.com/curiosity to start your 7-day free trial. discovery+ is currently only available for US subscribers.
Find episode transcripts here: https://curiosity-daily-4e53644e.simplecast.com/episodes/basketball-positions-self-healing-plastic-iq-decline
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
1348 episodes
