Curiosity Daily Podcast: You Can Control Your Dreams with Science
Learn how fathers benefit from being involved with their newborn babies, what you can do to control your dreams with science, and why the asterisk is used for corrections.
November 06, 2020
Episode Show Notes:
Being Involved with the Baby Early on Benefits a Father's Mental Health by Kelsey Donk
- Greater father involvement in infant parenting is beneficial for paternal mental health. (2020). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-09/f-gfi091720.php
- Bamishigbin, O. N., Wilson, D. K., Abshire, D. A., Mejia-Lancheros, C., & Dunkel Schetter, C. (2020). Father Involvement in Infant Parenting in an Ethnically Diverse Community Sample: Predicting Paternal Depressive Symptoms. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 11. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2020.578688
You Can Control Your Dreams with Science by Ashley Hamer
- Saunders, D. T., Roe, C. A., Smith, G., & Clegg, H. (2016). Lucid dreaming incidence: A quality effects meta-analysis of 50 years of research. Consciousness and Cognition, 43, 197–215. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2016.06.002
- Aspy, D. J., Delfabbro, P., Proeve, M., & Mohr, P. (2017). Reality testing and the mnemonic induction of lucid dreams: Findings from the national Australian lucid dream induction study. Dreaming, 27(3), 206–231. https://doi.org/10.1037/drm0000059
- Want to control your dreams? Here’s how you can. (2017). Adelaide.Edu.Au. https://www.adelaide.edu.au/news/news95682.html
When did we start using asterisks for corrections? by Ashley Hamer (Listener question from Aya from South Africa)
- Petronzio, M. (2012, October 25). A Brief History of Instant Messaging. Mashable. https://mashable.com/2012/10/25/instant-messaging-history/
- History of Information. (2010). Historyofinformation.Com. https://www.historyofinformation.com/image.php?id=5702
- Alt, B. (2000, October 23). ASCII Text and Emphasis. Emailuniverse.Com. https://emailuniverse.com/ezine-tips/?id=197
- Johns, K. (1996). Netiquette Smilies & Shorthand. Kassj.Com. http://www.kassj.com/netiquette/smilies.html
- Zimmer, B. (2013). Language Log » The cyberpragmatics of bounding asterisks. Upenn.Edu. https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4466
- What the Duck?? (2020, August 21). Department of Linguistics. https://www.colorado.edu/linguistics/2020/08/21/what-duck
- Collister, L. B. (2011). *-repair in Online Discourse. Journal of Pragmatics, 43(3), 918–921. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2010.09.025
Previous interviews with internet linguist Gretchen McCulloch:
- https://www.curiositydaily.com/is-internet-language-bad-w-gretchen-mcculloch-and-how-to-remember-more-dreams/
- https://www.curiositydaily.com/online-boomer-speak-w-gretchen-mcculloch-and-is-money-cant-buy-happiness-true/
- https://www.curiositydaily.com/international-internet-languages-w-gretchen-mcculloch-chances-of-rain-and-mars-in-spain/
- https://www.curiositydaily.com/emoji-around-the-world-w-gretchen-mcculloch-and-plants-may-have-a-sense-of-sight/
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