Measure Your Beliefs About the World, the Overview Effect, and a Mercury-Spewing Fountain
Learn about how the overview effect changes your perspective when you leave Earth; why the Calder Mercury Fountain in Barcelona pumps out pure liquid mercury; and, how researchers came up with a set of core beliefs that measure how you feel about the world.
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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:
- The Overview Effect Describes How Leaving Earth Changes Your Perspective \u2014 https://curiosity.im/2jCVb3H
- Look But Don't Touch Barcelona's Mercury-Spewing Fountain \u2014 https://curiosity.im/2jCTIdH
- Take the Primals Inventory to Measure Your Beliefs About the World \u2014 https://curiosity.im/2SppQyh
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