Acoustic Levitation, Stephen Hawking’s Science Bets, Helmholtz Resonance, and Where Your Body Feels Emotions
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 963 Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2018
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Learn about how scientists mapped where people feel emotions in their bodies; how scientists can make things levitate using sound; 3 times Stephen Hawking placed a bet on science; and why your car makes different noises when the windows are open.
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:
- Scientists Have Mapped Where People Feel Emotions in Their Bodies — https://curiosity.im/2D8oJyj
- We Can Make Things Levitate Using Sound — https://curiosity.im/2Da0iQU
- 7 Times People Made Bets on Science — https://curiosity.im/2D8HZeP
“Helmholtz Resonance” and why your slightly opened car windows make those awful thudding noises:
- Why Do Slightly Opened Car Windows Make That Awful Sound? | Jalopnik
- Flute acoustics: an introduction to how a flute works | UNSW
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, we've got the latest and greatest from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter in just a few minutes. |
| 0:05.7 | I'm Cody Gough. |
| 0:06.7 | And I'm Ashley Hamer. |
| 0:07.7 | Today you learn how scientists mapped where people feel emotions in their bodies, how scientists |
| 0:12.2 | can make things levitate using sound, and three times |
| 0:15.4 | Stephen Hawking placed a bet on science. We'll also answer a listener question about the sound |
| 0:20.4 | you hear when your car windows are open. |
| 0:22.4 | Let's satisfy some curiosity. |
| 0:24.4 | Researchers have mapped emotions |
| 0:25.8 | to where most people feel them in their own bodies. |
| 0:28.6 | And it turns out that most of us feel our emotions |
| 0:30.7 | in similar places. |
| 0:32.2 | I mean, like, where do you feel anger? |
| 0:34.3 | Usually my fists. Yeah they felt anger in their fists. Really? Yeah there's I mean |
| 0:39.8 | it's this wonderful little heat map that people will have to see on our story on this on curiosity.com because it's really cool |
| 0:46.7 | It's a whole bunch of bodies with like little heat maps and what emotion they were feeling but with with anger, your fists, your heart, your shoulders, there's a lot. Yeah, I mean I think we all kind of feel them in similar places which is really interesting. |
| 1:00.7 | Can't wait to hear all about it. So a team of Finnish |
| 1:03.3 | researchers have been working on this since at least 2014. That's when they |
| 1:07.0 | published a smaller body map that showed where people felt 14 basic and |
| 1:10.9 | non-basic emotions in their bodies. |
| 1:13.0 | So that was stuff like happiness versus pride, for example. |
| 1:16.0 | But for this new study, they mapped out a whopping 100 different feelings. |
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