{"podcast":{"title":"IFLScience - We Have Questions","slug":"iflscience-we-have-questions-7025311","podcast_index_feed_id":7025311,"rss_url":"https://feed.podbean.com/iflsciencewehavequestions/feed.xml","website_url":"https://iflsciencewehavequestions.podbean.com","image_url":"https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/19407042/69161_IFLS_We_Have_Questions_Podcast_Logo_OFFICIAL-02_2000x2000_yh8rrc.jpg","author":"iflsciencewehavequestions","episode_count":24,"summary":"Join IFLScience as we explore the questions nobody thought to ask but everyone wants the answers to. Get the behind-the-scenes conversations from CURIOUS magazine’s We Have Questions interviews, as we hunt down the experts to answer some of science’s stranger questions.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/iflscience-we-have-questions-7025311"},"episode":{"title":"Why Do Humans Play Games?","slug":"why-do-humans-play-games","published_at":"2025-02-24T10:25:21+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/iflscience-we-have-questions-7025311/why-do-humans-play-games","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/iflscience-we-have-questions-7025311","url":"https://iflsciencewehavequestions.podbean.com/e/why-do-humans-play-games/","audio_url":"https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/bd94zgyrsg8adn5n/WHQ-Games_v2.mp3","summary":"Stick two humans in an enclosed space with nothing to do, and before long, someone is likely to suggest a game of I Spy. Kids are so hot for smartphone games that it inspired its own meme format, and while certain generations might like to tell you this compulsion is a new thing – the fact is, humans have been playing games for thousands of years. It’s believed that gaming actually predates language, begging the question: why do humans play games? We spoke to Kelly Clancy, a neuroscientist and author of Playing With Reality: How Games Shape Our World, to find out.","meta_description":"Stick two humans in an enclosed space with nothing to do, and before long, someone is likely to suggest a game of I Spy. Kids are so hot for smartphone ga…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2305,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/iflscience-we-have-questions-7025311/episodes/why-do-humans-play-games/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/iflscience-we-have-questions-7025311/why-do-humans-play-games.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}