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Podcast: Curiosity Weekly
Episode: Short-Term Pleasures Are Important Too, the Smelly Armpit Enzyme, and a Thorne-Żytkow Object Is a Star Within a Star
Description: Learn about why short-term pleasures are important for your well-being; a Thorne-Żytkow Object, which is what astronomers call a star within a star; and how science identified the culprit for your smelly armpits: Staphylococcus hominis.
Short-term pleasures contribute to well-being just as much as self-control by Kelsey Donk
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A Thorne-Żytkow Object Is a Star Within a Star by Ashley Hamer
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