The Analog Movement
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 963 Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2026
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
As reliance on digital technology increases, there are plenty of people who are rejecting their screens and moving back to physical devices and experiences. The analog movement isn’t just a social media trend, there’s real science backing the potential psychological benefits of being offline. Here to discuss how our digital habits affect us is Dr. Natalia Khodayari, a postdoctoral scholar at UC Davis. Host Dr. Samantha Yammine also looks into a new study that solved the mystery of how horses whinny and a paper on the effects of dim lighting on our eyes.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, science lovers. Just a quick note before we start the episode, if you're enjoying Curiosity Weekly and love exploring science with us, leave us a rating or review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. It helps other science enthusiasts discover the show and it keeps us going. And don't forget to share your favorite episode with a friend. Together, we can inspire a lot more curiosity in the world, |
| 0:21.4 | which we love to see. Thanks so much. Have you heard about the analog movement? I mean, |
| 0:29.0 | these days, I'm a strictly pen and paper gal, and our production team has made some digital cuts, |
| 0:33.7 | too, like Teresa is back to wired earbuds and a tape deck, and Kiara pays with cash. |
| 0:40.6 | What does it really take to go all analog all the time, and how does it impact our brain? |
| 0:46.3 | That's what we're diving into with Dr. Natalia Jari in this episode. |
| 0:50.7 | Also, did you know nearsightedness is on the rise? |
| 0:54.1 | We'll talk about a fascinating new hypothesis that may explain it. |
| 0:58.0 | But first, the classic horse whinny sound that's so hard to imitate, I'm about to tell you why. |
| 1:04.0 | This is Curiosity Weekly, and I'm Dr. Samantha Amin. |
| 1:08.0 | Totally normal question. |
| 1:10.0 | Have you ever tried to winnie like a horse? Hey, it's not as easy as it seems. |
| 1:15.6 | In fact, it's a sound that's so unique, it's been puzzling scientists for ages. But a |
| 1:21.6 | 2026 study has some new insight into why horses winnie and how it's a sound truly unlike any other animals. |
| 1:30.2 | Horses produce their distinctive winnie by blending two frequencies at once, something that |
| 1:34.7 | resembles a combination of singing and whistling. An international team led by researchers at |
| 1:40.2 | the University of Copenhagen have found that the low frequency part of the Whitney, around 200 |
| 1:45.0 | hertz, comes from the vibration of the horse's vocal cords, similar to how we make a sound |
| 1:50.4 | when we hum or sing. That's called vocal fold vibration because of the movement of the vocal |
| 1:56.0 | chords, also known as vocal folds. But the higher frequency part, exceeding a thousand hertz, wasn't as straightforward. |
| 2:03.6 | So the team had to puzzle together a bunch of different information on the animal's vocal anatomy, |
| 2:07.6 | clinical data, and even do an acoustic analysis. |
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