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Podcast: Curiosity Weekly
Episode: Fiction Readers, Bird Flu Transmission, Beluga Heads
Description: Today, you’ll learn about how reading fiction could make you smarter, the first ever likely transmission of bird flu from a cow to a human, and how a beluga whale communicates with its squishy head. Fiction Readers “People who read a lot of fiction tend to have better cognitive skills, study finds.” by Eric W. Dolan. 2024. “Cognitive effects and correlates of reading fiction: Two preregistered multilevel meta-analyses.” by Lena Wimmer, et al. 2024. Bird Flu Transmission “Texas dairy farm worker’s case may be first where bird flu virus spread from...