Learn about the surprising physics involved in hitting a baseball; a productivity hack to stop procrastination; and how viruses and medicines know where to go in your body.

In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter and learn something new in just a few minutes:

• What It Takes to Hit a Baseball Makes Baseball Players Look Like Superheroes — https://curiosity.im/2xCsNC2
• The Pomodoro Technique Is the Productivity Hack Designed to Halt Procrastination — https://curiosity.im/2xzFa1P

Additional resources discussed:

• How do medicines know where in the body to start working? — MIT School of Engineering — https://engineering.mit.edu/engage/ask-an-engineer/how-do-medicines-know-where-in-the-body-to-start-working/
• How does gene therapy work? | U.S. National Library of Medicine — https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/primer/therapy/procedures

Amazon smart speaker users: you can listen to our podcast as part of your Amazon Alexa Flash Briefing! Just click or tap “enable” here: https://curiosity.im/podcast-flash-briefing.

Find episode transcript here: daily-4e53644e.simplecast.com/episodes/how-the-medicine-you-take-knows-where-to-go-the-amazing-physics-of-baseball-and-boosting-productivity-with-the-pomodoro-technique">https://curiosity-daily-4e53644e.simplecast.com/episodes/how-the-medicine-you-take-knows-where-to-go-the-amazing-physics-of-baseball-and-boosting-productivity-with-the-pomodoro-technique