Nowadays, powdered mummy may not be everyone’s cup of tea, but for many years it was just what the doctor ordered, as you will hear in this week’s Improbable Research podcast. SUBSCRIBE on Play.it, iTunes, or Spotify to get a new episode every week, free. This week, Marc Abrahams — with dramatic readings by Daniel Rosenberg — tells about: Powdered mummy — ‘“Good Physic but Bad Food”: […]
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Drunk German Speech [podcast 68]
Until not so long ago, if you wanted a public corpus of alcoholized German speech, you would have been up a creek, so to speak, without a corpus. That situation has changed — as we see (or hear) in this week’s Improbable Research podcast. SUBSCRIBE on Play.it, iTunes, or Spotify to get a new episode every week, free. This week, Marc Abrahams — with dramatic […]
The attempt to automatically recognize boredom [podcast 67]
Can a machine reliably recognize when a human is bored? That is the central question in this week’s Improbable Research podcast. SUBSCRIBE on Play.it, iTunes, or Spotify to get a new episode every week, free. This week, Marc Abrahams — with dramatic readings by Nicole Sharp — tells about: How to automatically recognize boredom — “A Preliminary System for Recognizing Boredom,” Allison M. Jacobs, Benjamin Fransen, J. Malcolm McCurry, Frederick W.P. Heckel, […]
Contagious yawning in the red-footed tortoise? (podcast 66)
Contagious yawning in the red-footed tortoise — or rather, lack of contagious yawning in the red-footed turtle, becomes a matter of high drama in this week’s Improbable Research podcast. SUBSCRIBE on Play.it, iTunes, or Spotify to get a new episode every week, free. This week, Marc Abrahams — with dramatic readings by Daniel Rosenberg — tells about: Contagious Yawning in Tortoises? — “No Evidence of Contagious Yawning […]