Curiosity Daily Podcast: Advertising Makes Us Unhappy, The Myth of Maximum Heart Rate, and How Parents Can Help Language Researchers with an App
Learn about why more advertising means less happiness; how to calculate your maximum heart rate; and how parents and kids can help language researchers during the pandemic, with help from an app called KidTalk.
July 31, 2020
Episode Show Notes:
The more ads we see, the less happy we are by Kelsey Donk
- Advertising Makes Us Unhappy. (2019, December 31). Harvard Business Review. https://hbr.org/2020/01/advertising-makes-us-unhappy
- Advertising as a major source of human dissatisfaction | VOX, CEPR Policy Portal. (2019). Voxeu.org. https://voxeu.org/article/advertising-major-source-human-dissatisfaction
- Michel, C., Sovinsky, M., Proto, E., & Oswald, A. J. (2019). Advertising as a Major Source of Human Dissatisfaction: Cross-National Evidence on One Million Europeans. The Economics of Happiness, 217–239. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15835-4_10
Max heart rate? by Ashley Hamer (Listener question from Julien)
- All About Heart Rate (Pulse). (2015). www.Heart.org. https://www.heart.org/en/health-topics/high-blood-pressure/the-facts-about-high-blood-pressure/all-about-heart-rate-pulse
- Quer, G., Gouda, P., Galarnyk, M., Topol, E. J., & Steinhubl, S. R. (2020). Inter- and intraindividual variability in daily resting heart rate and its associations with age, sex, sleep, BMI, and time of year: Retrospective, longitudinal cohort study of 92,457 adults. PLOS ONE, 15(2), e0227709. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0227709
- Can you sing while you work out? (2019). Mayo Clinic. https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/fitness/in-depth/exercise-intensity/art-20046887
- “Maximum” Heart Rate Theory Is Challenged. (2001, April 23). The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/24/health/maximum-heart-rate-theory-is-challenged.html
KidTalk lets parents create audio scrapbooks while helping language research by Steffie Drucker
- Home | KidTalk. (2020). KidTalk. https://www.kidtalkscrapbook.org/
- Kidtalkscrapbook. (2020, June 30). Say What? - Kidtalkscrapbook. Medium. https://medium.com/@kidtalkscrapbook/say-what-7dceb4761c01
- Follow Emily Calandrelli @thespacegal on TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@thespacegal?lang=en
- Follow @TheSpaceGal on Twitter https://twitter.com/thespacegal
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