curiosity Content / curiosity Content for ٺƵ en ‘Unfold’ Podcast, Episode 3: ‘Nature Tells Its Story, Part 2’ /curiosity/news/unfold-podcast-episode-3-nature-tells-its-story-part-2 <p><span><span><span><span>California boasts hundreds of caves, many of them hidden in the Sierra Nevada foothills. These caves hold much more than beautiful icicle-like stalactites and stalagmites. Trapped inside the stalagmites are tiny droplets of fossilized precipitation from climates long ago.</span></span></span></span></p> October 12, 2021 - 9:00am Katherine E Kerlin /curiosity/news/unfold-podcast-episode-3-nature-tells-its-story-part-2 ‘Unfold’ Podcast Explores Curiosity-Driven Research in Season 3 /curiosity/news/unfold-podcast-explores-curiosity-driven-research-season-3 <p><span><span><span><em><span><a href="/unfold/"><span>Unfold</span></a>,</span></em><span> a ٺƵ podcast, is launching its third season. </span><a href="/unfold/hosts">Hosts</a><span> Amy Quinton and Kat Kerlin will bring you stories of awe, wonder and discovery as they explore curiosity-driven research at ٺƵ. They’ll talk to researchers whose curiosity has led them to some pretty amazing discoveries, like why songs get stuck in your head or what comic book superheroes can teach you about real-world materials science.</span></span></span></span></p> September 28, 2021 - 10:00am Katherine E Kerlin /curiosity/news/unfold-podcast-explores-curiosity-driven-research-season-3 Do Bobblehead Giveaways Increase Baseball Attendance? /curiosity/blog/do-bobblehead-giveaways-increase-baseball-attendance <p>Spring means it’s time for the familiar sights and sounds of professional baseball: meticulously mowed outfields, the crack of a bat against a ball, and bobblehead giveaways.</p> <p>Baseball teams are out to win games, and they play a staggering number each year when compared to other professional sports. How can they keep fans coming back?</p> <p>Bobblehead giveaways, it turns out, increase attendance by around 25 percent on weekdays and 9 percent on weekends, Graduate School of Management student Mai Nguyen found.</p> June 10, 2019 - 9:00am Cody Kitaura /curiosity/blog/do-bobblehead-giveaways-increase-baseball-attendance ‘Curiosity Project’ Will Launch on KVIE /news/curiosity-project-will-launch-kvie <p>ٺƵ and public television station KVIE have collaborated to create a six-segment, 30-minute show called the “<a href="https://www.kvie.org/programs/viewfinder/?watch=the-curiosity-project-n0p6sl">Curiosity Project</a>” that will debut at 7 p.m. Wednesday (Nov. 14).</p> <p>The program explores the deeper stories behind six of our professors: What inspired them down the road of science and academia? What drives their research and their passion to help others? What do they teach us about the world?</p> November 13, 2018 - 10:35am Dave Jones /news/curiosity-project-will-launch-kvie Making Cement Sustainable /news/making-cement-sustainable <p>Cement production accounts for up to nine percent of global anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions, according to the World Business Council for Sustainable Development. Sabbie Miller, assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, aims to change that by finding alternative ways to make cement or replace it altogether.&nbsp;</p> <p>People have been using cement as a building material for thousands of years. Mixed with water and rock fragments, it forms concrete for buildings, highways and bridges.&nbsp;</p> October 16, 2018 - 5:09pm Andy Fell /news/making-cement-sustainable Fruit Flies Raised in Space by ٺƵ Researcher Show Weakened Immunity /curiosity/news/fruit-flies-raised-space-uc-davis-researcher-show-weakened-immune-system <p>In 2006, Professor Deborah Kimbrell and a group of university researchers were selected by NASA to send fruit flies up on a space shuttle to test their immune response.</p> October 08, 2018 - 4:58pm Karen Michele Nikos /curiosity/news/fruit-flies-raised-space-uc-davis-researcher-show-weakened-immune-system Can Meditation Improve How Well Your Brain Works and How You Handle Stress? /curiosity-gap/meditation-can-improve-how-well-your-brain-works-and-how-you-handle-stress <p>Researchers at ٺƵ have found that meditation can improve your ability to pay attention and retain information.</p> <p>The study followed 60 experienced meditators who attended these three-month meditation retreats and received ongoing instruction in meditation techniques from Buddhist scholar, author and teacher B. Alan Wallace of the Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies. They attended group meditation sessions twice a day and engaged in individual practice for about six hours a day.&nbsp;</p> September 25, 2018 - 4:03pm Karen Michele Nikos /curiosity-gap/meditation-can-improve-how-well-your-brain-works-and-how-you-handle-stress