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Scented candles, air fresheners and even scented cleaning products  are all designed to make your home smell nice, clean and fresh.  But using them can reduce the air quality of your home and lead to a variety of potential problems.    For many people most of their  time is spent indoors and, according to the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), levels of indoor air pollutants are typically more than three times higher than outdoors. Causes range from cooking, heating, scented cleaning products as well as products like candles, diffusers or room sprays which are designed to make our homes smell nice. What affects the quality of our air inside? What are VCOs? Should I stop using scented candles and air freshener? In under 3 minutes, we answer your questions! To listen to the last episodes, you can click here: Am I listening to music too loud? What is the Ikea effect? How can I avoid the side effects of antibiotics? A Bababam Originals podcast, written and produced by Amber Minogue. In partnership with upday UK. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today’s episode, let’s talk about a term which mixes sociology and lifestyle newspeak. Yuccies is an abbreviation for Young urban creatives.  The term started trending after American journalist David Infante introduced it in an article on Mashable in June 2015. Within weeks, the concept had been covered on many other websites, with the original article being shared over 75,000 times. How did Infante know so much about yuccies? Well he claimed to be one himself. That sounds a lot like hipsters? What sets yuccies apart? What kind of careers do yuccies tend to pursue? In under 3 minutes, we answer your questions! To listen to the last episodes, you can click here: Am I listening to music too loud? What is the Ikea effect? How can I avoid the side effects of antibiotics? A Bababam Originals podcast, written and produced by Joseph Chance In partnership with upday UK. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Whether it’s in the street, on public transport or at home, almost all of us use headphones or earphones to listen to music. Now music might bring us joy and a whole lot of other emotions, but when it’s too loud, it can also represent a risk for hearing health. And it’s not just the case with personal listening devices; the same is also true when going to entertainment venues like nightclubs, bars, music concert arenas and sports stadia. The danger comes when the sound level gets too high, we’re exposed to it for too long, or worse, both. Both our ears and brains are involved in processing sound. The outer ear captures soundwaves and transmits the vibrations to the cochlea, a snail-shaped organ located in the inner air which contains fluid. What are healthy listening levels then? Are there any warning signs to look out for? What should I look out for? In under 3 minutes, we answer your questions! To listen to more episodes, click here: Why does walking through doorways make us forget things? Will ChatGPT replace Google? What is the loverboy method Andrew Tate is accused of using? A Bababam Originals podcast. Written and produced by Joseph Chance. In partnership with upday UK. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You’re no doubt familiar with IKEA as the king of flatpack furniture. But you may not be aware that the Swedish company’s name is also associated with a cognitive bias. It’s all to do with how we assign greater value to objects when we make or assemble them ourselves. Now that might seem counterintuitive but it’s become an established marketing tactic over the years. Studies by American researchers Michael Norton, Daniel Mochon, and Dan Ariely backed it up with evidence. When releasing their findings, they coined the term “Ikea effect” to describe the bias. They ran a series of tests to find out if their belief in the Ikea effect was well-founded. One part saw test subjects divided into two groups. The first group was tasked with assembling Ikea furniture items, while the other group simply examined the same items, only they’d been pre-built for them.  What was their evidence? Why on earth would we want to pay more for doing more work ourselves? Does the IKEA effect come into play in other areas of life? In under 3 minutes, we answer your questions! To listen to more episodes, click here: Why does walking through doorways make us forget things? Will ChatGPT replace Google? What is the loverboy method Andrew Tate is accused of using? A Bababam Originals podcast. Written and produced by Joseph Chance. In partnership with upday UK. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Social science research is becoming more and more fruitful. As a result, an almost endless list of terms are emerging, like 'white privilege' or 'ageism’, which we have already covered in past episodes of Do You Really Know? These studies often share the same objective and that is to shine a light on social phenomena we tend to dismiss, calling out persisting discrimination. The words 'ableism' and 'disablism' appeared in public debate to denounce systemic oppression against people with disabilities. Although ableism and disablism both describe discrimination based on disability, the emphasis for each of these terms is slightly different. Disablism implies discrimination against disabled people. Meanwhile, ableism is discrimination in favour of non-disabled people by seeing them as the norm to the extent that anyone else is forgotten. What are some examples of ableism? Isn’t there a danger of manipulation? How can we work against it? In under 3 minutes, we answer your questions! To listen to more episodes, click here: Why does walking through doorways make us forget things? Will ChatGPT replace Google? What is the loverboy method Andrew Tate is accused of using? A Bababam Originals podcast. Written and produced by Joseph Chance. In partnership with upday UK. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Antibiotics are critical to modern medicine, and have saved millions of lives since first being introduced in the mid-20th century. However, there are drawbacks to prescribing antibiotics when they’re not actually required. Of course there’s the issue of antibiotic resistance, which is seen as a major threat to human health. And there are also unwanted side effects of antibiotic use to take into account. After all, they don’t only target the bacteria that are making us sick. They also kill harmless bacteria in the gut which actually keep us healthy. What’s more, according to MedicalXpress.com, “this disruption to gut microbiome composition can last for up to two years after antibiotic treatment.” Other side effects include diarrhea and bloating. Is there anything we can do to protect our gut? Can antibiotics also lead to yeast infections? Do I have to go right to the end of my course of antibiotics? In under 3 minutes, we answer your questions! To listen to more episodes, click here: Why does walking through doorways make us forget things? Will ChatGPT replace Google? What is the loverboy method Andrew Tate is accused of using? A Bababam Originals podcast. Written and produced by Joseph Chance. In partnership with upday UK. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Have you ever walked into your living room, kitchen or bedroom and completely forgotten what you went there for? It can be pretty annoying, and a little unsettling too. You might start wondering if you’ve got memory problems. This mental block phenomenon actually has a name: the doorway effect. It happens to most people from time to time. Through a series of studies run by Gabriel Radvansky and his colleagues at the University of Notre Dame in the USA, the doorway effect has been proved scientifically. The findings were published in the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology in 2011. Has it been studied by researchers? So what’s actually going on in the brain at that specific moment? Should I be worried if it happens to me? In under 3 minutes, we answer your questions! To listen to more episodes, click here: Will ChatGPT replace Google? What is the loverboy method Andrew Tate is accused of using? Should I buy an electric car? A Bababam Originals podcast. Written and produced by Joseph Chance. In partnership with upday UK. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

One of the consequences of the pandemic has been the increased interest and possibility for people to work from home. For many it is a great option, but increasingly employers are worried about time theft. Time theft is a catch all term for employees being paid for being at work when they were not really working. It could be because of things like taking longer breaks than scheduled; logging off early; or using work time to do personal tasks. This has all been illustrated rather well with the case of Karlee Besse who worked remotely as an accountant. But she was fired and sued her company for unfair dismissal and was awarded compensation. What is time theft? What is TimeCamp? What is the problem with ‘bossware’ ? In under 3 minutes, we answer your questions! To listen to more episodes, click here: Will ChatGPT replace Google? What is the loverboy method Andrew Tate is accused of using? Should I buy an electric car? A Bababam Originals podcast. Written and produced by Amber Minogue. In partnership with upday UK. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Discussions of sexism are commonplace in public discourse. And despite government policies aimed to ensure equality between women and men, the problem persists. Even if in your immediate environment, sexism seems to be gone for good, you may be thinking of sexism in its classical sense. Experts say that more discreet forms remain, and benevolent sexism is one of them. Benevolent sexism is part of another theory presented by Peter Glick and Susan Fiske in 1996. The two scholars coined the term ambivalent sexism, defined as the coexistence of hostile sexism and benevolent sexism toward women. Within that concept, hostile sexism refers to explicitly negative attitudes to individuals who violate traditional gender roles. Can a form of prejudice really be benevolent? What kind of remarks, for example? But something called benevolent can’t be too harmful, can it? In under 3 minutes, we answer your questions! To listen to more episodes, click here: Will ChatGPT replace Google? What is the loverboy method Andrew Tate is accused of using? Should I buy an electric car? A Bababam Originals podcast. Written and produced by Joseph Chance. In partnership with upday UK. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The ChatGPT AI chatbot has grabbed a lot of attention since it was released in December 2022. GPT stands for generative Pre-trained transformer, and the chatbot is based on one of the most advanced AI language models currently available. Those who’ve tested it have been impressed at how it generates complex, human-like responses to many different kinds of questions. It’s also been used to write essays and scripts for a TV sitcom. It’s led to speculation that AI will soon revolutionise industries, and could even replace Google, which has an 84% search engine market share according to Statista. Why would people stop using Google to browse the internet? Are there any drawbacks? Is ChatGPT meant to be used as a search engine? In under 3 minutes, we answer your questions! To listen to more episodes, click here: Are baths or showers better for our health? Can this budgeting method help us save better? Is microwaving food bad for you? A Bababam Originals podcast. Written and produced by Joseph Chance. In partnership with upday UK. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices