Speed Listening’s Effects on Emotion, Surprising Differences Between White and Brown Rice, and Pi Almost Legally Changed to 3.2

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🗓️ 13 March 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

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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	Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from
0:05.0	Curiosity.com. I'm Cody goth. And I'm Ashley Hamer. Today we'll answer a
0:09.2	listener question about how speed listening affects our emotions.
0:13.0	He'll also learn about the health differences
0:14.7	between white and brown rice,
0:16.4	and that time Pie was once almost legally changed to 3.2.
0:20.5	Let's satisfy some curiosity. We got a listener question on our new studio line.
0:25.0	We'll remind you what our phone number is later in this episode,
0:28.0	but for now, here's the question.
0:30.0	Hey Cody and Ashley, this is SP from Better Better Podcasting and I was just listening to your episode as I'm driving to work here and I have a question for you so on a recent episode of Better Podcasting we ran into an article on
0:46.1	medium that was written by Steve Russo with the title I tried listening to
0:50.8	podcast at 3X and broke my brain. It was a pretty well researched
0:56.1	article. One of the things in the article mentioned that as audio speeds up your
1:02.4	emotional understanding goes down so you're not as
1:06.5	emotional affected and I was wondering if you guys do have any science that would
1:11.4	confirm that keep up the great work guys. You're in luck
1:15.2	SP. While nobody's done an actual study on how speeding up narrative audio affects the
1:20.4	listener's emotions, there is a good amount of research that can give us a peek
1:24.2	into what might be happening there.
1:26.8	So a person's speech rate is one aspect of something called emotional prosody.
1:32.4	That's all the nonverbal stuff that helps speech convey emotion.
1:35.8	Like if I say, I lost my keys,
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