Do Masks Stunt Emotional Development? Plus: Human Ears Perk Up, Too, and Why Your Shower Curtain Clings To You

Published: Aug. 28, 2020, 7 a.m.

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Learn about the "shower-curtain effect," the mystery of why your shower curtain will randomly cling to you; whether masks affect our emotional development; and why humans perk up their ears.

No One Knows Why the Shower Curtain Will Randomly Cling to You by Joanie Faletto

Do masks affect our emotional development? by Ashley Hamer (Listener question from Nate)

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Humans perk up their ears, too by Kelsey Donk

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