Speech Signals of Depression, What Time to Eat?, Monet Haze
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 935 Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2023
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Today you’ll learn about how we are able to measure depression through speech patterns, a recent study that explores whether or not eating at a certain time of day affects weight, and how researchers used paintings to assess pollution levels during the industrial revolution.
Speech Signals of Depression
- “New research indicates signs of depression can be detected in speech patterns” by Laura Staloch
- “Detecting subtle signs of depression with automated speech analysis in a non-clinical sample” by Alexandra König et al.
What Time to Eat?
- “Association of Eating and Sleeping Intervals With Weight Change Over Time: The Daily24 Cohort” by Di Zhao et al.
- “Total Meals, Not Timing, Drives Long-term Body Weight Changes” by Todd Neale
Monet Haze
- “That dreamy haze in Monet’s impressionist paintings? Air pollution, study says.” By Kasha Patel
- “Paintings by Turner and Monet depict trends in 19th century air pollution” by Anna Lea Albright and Peter Huybers
- “Garden at Sainte-Adresse” by The MET
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Discovery. |
| 0:08.8 | Time flies when you learn in super cool stuff. I'm Nate. |
| 0:11.6 | And I'm Callie. If you're dropping in for the first time, welcome to |
| 0:14.5 | curiosity where we aim to blow your mind by helping you to grow your mind. If you're |
| 0:18.4 | a loyal listener, welcome back. Today you'll learn about how we are able to |
| 0:22.4 | measure depression through speech patterns. |
| 0:25.0 | A recent study that explores whether or not eating at certain times of day affects weight |
| 0:30.6 | and how researchers used paintings to assess pollution levels during the Industrial Revolution. |
| 0:36.0 | Without further ado, let's satisfy some curiosity. |
| 0:40.0 | Depression is something that affects a lot of people but did you know that people are actually 93% |
| 0:47.1 | accurate in detecting depression just from listening to other people speak? |
| 0:51.4 | I didn't know anything about that. |
| 0:53.7 | What's the science behind this? |
| 0:55.7 | Well, it started per usual, with a bit of research that found that any changes in speech like |
| 1:01.5 | the speed or intensity or pitch or even how often we pause while speaking |
| 1:06.1 | can be a pretty accurate read when looking to detect depression. Now to be clear I'm not talking |
| 1:11.4 | about like everyday sadness. |
| 1:12.8 | I'm talking about clinical diagnosable depression and our ears are capable of being up to |
| 1:18.3 | 93% accurate in discovering that. |
| 1:20.8 | Wow 93 sounds pretty impressive. |
| 1:24.6 | Like, how do we do that? |
| 1:26.2 | I mean, yes, depression or major depressive disorder as it's known is one of the most common |
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