From the Archives: Pi Almost Legally Changed to 3.2
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 935 Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2022
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
This episode originally aired on 3/13/2020. New episodes coming soon.
Learn about how speed listening to podcasts (or "podfasting") affects our emotions; the health differences between white and brown rice; and the time pi was once almost legally changed to 3.2.
Speed listening’s effects on emotion by Ashley Hamer (Listener question from S.P.)
- Rousseau, S. (2020, January 24). I Tried Listening to Podcasts at 3x and Broke My Brain. Medium; OneZero. https://onezero.medium.com/i-tried-listening-to-podcasts-at-3x-and-broke-my-brain-d8823edecb7c
- Liebenthal, E., Silbersweig, D. A., & Stern, E. (2016). The Language, Tone and Prosody of Emotions: Neural Substrates and Dynamics of Spoken-Word Emotion Perception. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 10. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2016.00506
- Murray, I. R., & Arnott, J. L. (1993). Toward the simulation of emotion in synthetic speech: A review of the literature on human vocal emotion. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 93(2), 1097–1108. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.405558
- Philippou-Hubner, D., Vlasenko, B., Bock, R., & Wendemuth, A. (2012). The Performance of the Speaking Rate Parameter in Emotion Recognition from Speech. 2012 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo. https://doi.org/10.1109/icme.2012.183
- Kraxenberger, M., Menninghaus, W., Roth, A., & Scharinger, M. (2018). Prosody-Based Sound-Emotion Associations in Poetry. Frontiers in Psychology, 9. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01284
The health differences between white and brown rice are dead even by Steffie Drucker
- Whelan, C. (2017, May 25). Brown Rice vs. White Rice: Which Is Better for You? Healthline; Healthline Media. https://www.healthline.com/health/food-nutrition/brown-rice-vs-white-rice
- Allan, P. (2020, February 19). Is Brown Rice Really That Much Healthier Than White Rice? Lifehacker. https://lifehacker.com/is-brown-rice-really-that-much-healthier-than-white-ric-1820044994
- Parletta, N. (2018, December 5). Rice is a major source of arsenic exposure. Cosmos Magazine. https://cosmosmagazine.com/biology/rice-is-a-major-source-of-arsenic-exposure
Pi Was Once Almost Legally Changed to 3.2 by Ashley Hamer: https://curiosity.com/topics/happy-pi-day-how-pi-was-almost-legally-changed-to-32-curiosity
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Janice from Discovery. This is one of our favorite episodes of Curiosity Daily from 2020. |
| 0:05.5 | Take a listen to get smarter in just a few minutes and we'll be back with fresh episodes soon. |
| 0:13.0 | Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes, |
| 0:16.0 | with Curiosity Daily from Curiosity.com. |
| 0:19.0 | I'm Cody Goff. |
| 0:20.0 | And I'm Ashley Hamer. |
| 0:21.0 | Today we'll answer a listener question |
| 0:22.7 | about how speed listening affects our emotions. |
| 0:25.8 | You'll also learn about the health differences |
| 0:27.5 | between white and brown rice, |
| 0:29.2 | and that time Pie was once almost legally changed to 3.2. |
| 0:33.0 | Let's satisfy some curiosity. |
| 0:35.0 | We got a listener question on our new studio line. |
| 0:38.0 | We'll remind you what our phone number is later in this episode, |
| 0:41.0 | but for now, here's the question. |
| 0:42.0 | Hey Cody and Ashley, this is the question. Hey Cody and Ashley this is SP from Better Podcasting and I was just listening to your |
| 0:48.5 | episode as I'm driving to work here and I have a question for you so on a recent episode of Better |
| 0:56.1 | Podcasting we ran into an article on medium that was written by Steve |
| 1:00.8 | Russo with the title I tried listening to podcast at 3X and broke my brain. |
| 1:07.4 | It was a pretty well researched article. |
| 1:09.8 | One of the things in the article mentioned that as audio speeds up your emotional |
| 1:16.1 | understanding goes down so you're not as emotional affected and I was |
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