Curiosity Daily Podcast: Pop Songs Are Getting Sadder, Mysterious Radio Signals from Outer Space, and It Pays to “Just Be Yourself”
Learn about why pop songs are getting sadder; a mysterious radio signal coming from outer space every 16 days; and why it pays to be yourself when you’re in a high-stakes situation.
March 09, 2020
Episode Show Notes:
Pop songs are getting sadder by Kelsey Donk
- Acerbi, A. (2020, February 4). Why are pop songs getting sadder than they used to be? Aeon; Aeon. https://aeon.co/ideas/why-are-pop-songs-getting-sadder-than-they-used-to-be
- Brand, C. O., Acerbi, A., & Mesoudi, A. (2019). Cultural evolution of emotional expression in 50 years of song lyrics. Evolutionary Human Sciences, 1. https://doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2019.11
- Musical trends and predictability of success in contemporary songs in and out of the top charts | Royal Society Open Science. (2018). Royal Society Open Science. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsos.171274#d3e1446
A newly detected fast radio burst appears to be repeating in a 16-day cycle by Grant Currin
- Starr, M. (2020). Powerful Radio Signal From Deep Space Appears to Be Repeating in a 16-Day Cycle. ScienceAlert. https://www.sciencealert.com/periodicity-has-been-detected-in-a-repeating-fast-radio-burst
- FRB Collaboration, Amiri, M., C, A. B., M, B. K., Bhardwaj, M., J, B. P., Brar, C., Chawla, P., Chen, T., F, C. J., Cubranic, D., Deng, M., T, D. N., Dobbs, M., Q, D. F., Fandino, M., Fonseca, E., M, G. B., Giri, U., … V, Z. A. (2020). Periodic activity from a fast radio burst source. ArXiv.org. https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.10275
- High Energy Astrophysics Picture Of the Week. (2016). NASA.gov. https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/objects/heapow/archive/transients/frbgrb_swift.html
It pays to be yourself in job interviews by Kelsey Donk
- It Pays to Be Yourself. (2020, February 13). Harvard Business Review. https://hbr.org/2020/02/research-it-pays-to-be-yourself
- Gino, F., Sezer, O., & Huang, L. (2020). To be or not to be your authentic self? Catering to others’ preferences hinders performance. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.obhdp.2020.01.003
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