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Nov 2021
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Hostile Holiday Shopping, Why Cats Love ...

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Learn about psychological ownership; why cats love boxes; and how researchers—and AI—finished Beethoven’s 10th symphony.

"Psychological ownership" is why holiday shopping can get so hostile by Steffie Drucker

Why Do Cats Love Boxes? by Ashley Hamer (Listener question from Reese in Newton, Massachusetts) originally published September 5, 2018 https://omnystudio.com/p/curiosity-daily/clips/1adc7d26-de9f-48df-9a31-ab51000f8517

Musicologists and computer scientists completed Beethoven's 10th symphony by Briana Brownell

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