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Welcome to the Kotky Ride Home for Wednesday, December 30th, 2020.

I'm Jackson Bird.

Why talking out loud to yourself is actually an important cognitive skill.

Or so I'm telling myself.

A new population of blue whales with a distinct song was recently discovered in the

Indian Ocean, and a new AI that will hilariously and viciously judge your taste in music.

Here are some of the cool things from the news today.

Good news for people like me.

Talking out loud to yourself is apparently a very useful tool for processing your thoughts.

Now, if you two talk to yourself, this probably isn't huge news.

Even if you don't, it makes logical sense.

And it's something that's been discussed and recommended in varying capacities, at least since

ancient Greece.

But German writer Heinrich von Kleist perhaps described it best in his 19th century essay

on the gradual formation of thoughts during speech.

Quoting Syke, here Kleist describes his habit of

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