Episode Details

Today you’ll learn about how kids’ well-being can affect adult heart health, what our ears can tell us about the cosmos, and how playing music meant for oysters can help them adapt to climate change. 

Happy Healthy Kids 

• “Protecting Children’s Psychological Well-being Could Help Strengthen Their Hearts as Adults” by Boehm, J. K.
  • https://www.psychologicalscience.org/publications/observer/obsonline/2022-sept-childhood-psychological-health-adult-hearts.html
• “Psychological Well-Being in Childhood and Cardiometabolic Risk in Middle Adulthood: Findings From the 1958 British Birth Cohort” by Julia K. Boehm
• https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09567976221075608

Hearing Data 

• “Scientists are turning data into sound to listen to the whispers of the universe (and more)” by Jeffrey Cooke
  • https://www.space.com/astronomy-sonification-turn-data-to-music
• “Sonification and Sound Design for Astronomy Research, Education and Public Engagement” by A. Zanella
  • https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.13536

Oystersong 

• “Playing sea soundscapes can summon thousands of baby oysters – and help regrow oyster reefs” by Dominic McAfee
  • https://theconversation.com/playing-sea-soundscapes-can-summon-thousands-of-baby-oysters-and-help-regrow-oyster-reefs-188006
• “Soundscape enrichment enhances recruitment and habitat building on new oyster reef restorations” by Dominic McAfee, Brittany R. Williams, Lachlan McLeod, Andreas Reuter, Zak Wheaton, and Sean D. Connell
  • https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2664.14307
• “Oyster Reefs at Risk and Recommendations for Conservation, Restoration, and Management” by Michael W. Beck et al.
  • https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/61/2/107/242615

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