Episode Details

Today, you’ll learn about how people who have lost the power of speech could get their voices back through AI, the cool truth about the weighted blanket fad, and an 8-billion-year-old blast from outer space.  

Speech Reconstruction 

• “Neural Networks Help Reconstruct Speech From Brain Activity.” Technology Networks. 2023.  
• “How Intel Gave Stephen Hawking a Voice.” by Joao Medeiros. 2015.  
• “Distributed feedforward and feedback cortical processing supports human speech production.” by Ran Wang, et al. 2023. 

Weighted Blankets 

• “Weighted blankets improve sleep in children with ADHD, study shows.” by Stacey Coleen Lubag. 2023.  
• “The Problem With This Year’s Most Comfortable Holiday Fad.” by Ashley Fetters. 2018.  
• “The Origin Of Weighted Blankets - How Did It All Start? A History Lesson.” by Larry. 2023.  
• “The efficacy of weighted blankets for sleep in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder—A randomized controlled crossover trial.” by Maria Lonn, et al. 2023.  

Space Radio Burst 

• “A radio burst traveled 8 billion years to reach Earth. It’s the farthest ever detected.” by Eric Lagatta. 2023.  
• “A luminous fast radio burst that probes the Universe at redshift 1.” by S.D. Ryder, et al. 2023.  
• “Record-breaking fast radio burst offers path to weigh the Universe.” EurekAlert! 2023.  

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