Forrest Galante, host of “Extinct or Alive” on Animal Planet, explains how to become an adventurer, survive extreme conditions, and find extinct animals. Then, you’ll learn about how “cryptomnesia” can make you plagiarize without realizing it. Please vote for Curiosity Daily in the 2019 Discover Pods Awards! We're a finalist for Best Technology & Science Podcast. Every vote counts!https://awards.discoverpods.com/finalists/ In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following story from Curiosity.com about how cryptomnesia can make you plagiarize without realizing it: https://curiosity.im/32Nmsll More from Extinct or Alive: Extinct or Alive official website — https://www.animalplanet.com/tv-shows/extinct-or-alive/ Animal Planet Go — https://www.animalplanet.com/watch/animal-planet Forrest Galante official website — https://www.forrestgalante.com/about Follow @animalplanet on Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/animalplanet/ Follow @forrest.galante on Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/forrest.galante/ Follow @AnimalPlanet on Twitter — https://twitter.com/AnimalPlanet Follow @ForrestGalante on Twitter — https://twitter.com/ForrestGalante
Forrest Galante, host of “Extinct or Alive” on Animal Planet, explains how to become an adventurer, survive extreme conditions, and find extinct animals. Then, you’ll learn about how “cryptomnesia” can make you plagiarize without realizing it.
Please vote for Curiosity Daily in the 2019 Discover Pods Awards! We're a finalist for Best Technology & Science Podcast. Every vote counts! https://awards.discoverpods.com/finalists/
In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following story from Curiosity.com about how cryptomnesia can make you plagiarize without realizing it: https://curiosity.im/32Nmsll
More from Extinct or Alive:
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CODY: Hi! We’re here from curiosity-dot-com to help you get smarter in just a few minutes. I’m Cody Gough.
ASHLEY: And I’m Ashley Hamer. Today, you’ll learn about how to track animals and basically become an adventurer, from “Extinct or Alive” host Forrest Galante. You’ll also learn about how “cryptomnesia” can make you plagiarize without realizing it.
CODY: Let’s satisfy some curiosity.
Forrest Galante #2 - Tracking and adventuring 101 [4:32] (Cody)
Today we’ve got the inside scoop on how to become an adventurer, survive extreme conditions, and find extinct animals. And you’re about to learn about all those things from a guy who’s visited more than 46 countries, scoured jungles and volcanic islands, and has discovered live animals from species once thought extinct. Forrest Galante is the host of “Extinct or Alive” on Animal Planet, which is a show that, quite literally, follows him around as he searches for animals that have been declared extinct. I personally endorse the show, because it seriously is REALLY good. But you may know Forrest from a TV show on the Discovery Channel that tested his survival skills in a slightly… “different” way. I am, of course, talking about the TV show “Naked and Afraid.” In 2013, Forrest was dropped off in a remote section of northwestern Panama and survived for 21 days, AND scored one of the highest “primitive survival ratings” in the show’s history. And that’s where we’ll start today’s conversation, before getting into how you can implement these lessons in your own life.
[CLIP 4:32]
You can watch Forrest Galante put his skills into practice TONIGHT, and every Wednesday at 9pm Eastern, on “Extinct or Alive” on Animal Planet. And here in the US, you can catch all of Season 1 on Animal Planet Go. We’ll put links to learn more in today’s show notes. [ad lib how awesome the show is]
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Cryptomnesia Can Make You Plagiarize Without Realizing It — https://curiosity.im/32Nmsll (Ashley)
Have you ever started telling someone a story, only to realize they were the one who told you about it? This is an of cryptomnesia, the act of misidentifying a memory as a novel thought. In social situations, it's usually just an annoying quirk, but it has led to serious consequences for many high-profile figures.
For a study published in 1989, researchers from Southern Methodist University examined cryptomnesia in a laboratory setting. They split students into groups of four and had them take turns verbally coming up with examples in a given category, like animals, sports, clothing, or musical instruments. The only catch: Every example had to be new. They couldn't repeat what someone else had said. Next, they had to write down the examples they themselves came up with in the group exercise, then come up with four new examples for each category that nobody else had mentioned.
During the group exercise, more than 40 percent of the students repeated something that someone else had said without realizing it. The written exercise was even worse: 75 percent of people wrote down someone else's example as one they had mentioned, and 70 percent of them wrote down someone else's example as a new example they came up with. According to the researchers, this shows that when you hear something said, you're more likely to plagiarize it in writing than you are in speech.
Knowing this, it makes many high-profile accusations of plagiarism a little more understandable. Take one example in 1976, when George Harrison was found guilty of "subconscious plagiarism" for his song "My Sweet Lord," which copied Ronnie Mack's "He's So Fine."
It’s clear that memory is a tricky thing and easily subject to distortion. Add that to that classic truism, "There's nothing new under the sun," and it makes you marvel at how people ever come up with new ideas at all.
CODY: Yeah, it really makes you marvel at how people ever come up with new ideas at all
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CODY: Okay, so what got us excited about today’s episode?
-If you want to survive in the wild, or be a better tracker, then just start paying more attention to the world around you. It’s like we always say: stay curious!
-And you probably unconsciously steal other peoples’ ideas. [ad lib]
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CODY: Today’s cryptomnesia story was by Ashley Hamer, who’s the managing editor for Curiosity.com.
ASHLEY: Scriptwriting was by Cody Gough and Sonja Hodgen. Today’s episode was produced and edited by Cody Gough.
CODY: Join us again tomorrow to learn something new in just a few minutes.
ASHLEY: And until then, stay curious!