The Academic Benefits of Emotional Intelligence, Atoms Split in Uneven Shapes, and Wolf Puppies Can Play Fetch

Learn about why students with higher emotional intelligence do better in school; how scientists solved an 80-year mystery of how atoms split; and an adorable discovery that changes what we know about the canine brain. Spoiler: it involves wolf puppies.The Academic Benefits of Emotional Intelligence by Kelsey DonkStudents do better in school when they can understand, manage emotions. (2019). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-12/apa-sdb121019.phpPattillo, A. (2019, December 12). This underrated type of intelligence could predict academic success. Inverse. https://www.inverse.com/article/61671-emotional-intelligence-is-key-factor-for-successMaccann, C., Jiang, Y., Brown, L., Double, K., Bucich, M., & Minbashian, A. (2007). Emotional Intelligence Predicts Academic Performance: A Meta-Analysis. https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/bul-bul0000219.pdfAtoms Split in Uneven Shapes by Grant CurrinDooley, P. (2019, December 9). Things go pear-shaped when you split the atom. Cosmosmagazine.Com; Cosmos Magazine. https://cosmosmagazine.com/physics/things-go-pear-shaped-when-you-split-the-atomScamps, G., & Simenel, C. (2018). Impact of pear-shaped fission fragments on mass-asymmetric fission in actinides. Nature, 564(7736), 382–385. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0780-0CrashCourse. (2020). Nuclear Chemistry Part 2 - Fusion and Fission: Crash Course Chemistry #39 [YouTube Video]. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FU6y1XIADdgUniversity of Tsukuba. (2018, December 20). Why does nuclear fission produce pear-shaped nuclei? Phys.org. https://phys.org/news/2018-12-nuclear-fission-pear-shaped-nuclei.htmlWolf Puppies Can Play Fetch by Steffie DruckerScientists unexpectedly witness wolf puppies play fetch. (2020). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-01/cp-suw010920.phpYong, E. (2016, June 2). The Origin of Dogs: When, Where, and How Many Times Were They Domesticated? The Atlantic. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/06/the-origin-of-dogs/484976/Hansen Wheat, C., & Temrin, H. (2020). Intrinsic Ball Retrieving in Wolf Puppies Suggests Standing Ancestral Variation for Human-Directed Play Behavior. IScience, 100811. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2019.100811Subscribe to Curiosity Daily to learn something new every day with Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer. You can also listen to our podcast as part of your Alexa Flash Briefing; Amazon smart speakers users, click/tap “enable” here: https://www.amazon.com/Curiosity-com-Curiosity-Daily-from/dp/B07CP17DJY Find episode transcript here: https://curiosity-daily-4e53644e.simplecast.com/episodes/the-academic-benefits-of-emotional-intelligence-atoms-split-in-uneven-shapes-and-wolf-puppies-can-play-fetch Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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