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"Green Flash",
"Sunset",
"Support us with a Max Fun Membership!",
"Join our Discord!",
"StellarNet: A Brief History of the Sky’s Blueness",
"Blog: The bizarre myth that Ancient Greeks couldn't see blue",
"2023 Paper: Revisiting the question “Why is the sky blue?”",
"Wiki- John Tyndall",
"The Conversation: John Tyndall: the forgotten co‑founder of climate science",
"Wiki: Rayleigh Scattering",
"NASA: The Electromagnetic Spectrum",
"Scientific American: Mirages",
"IFL Science: Orange Sky",
"The Great Oxidation Event: How Cyanobacteria Changed Life",
"Royal Museums Greenwich: Why Is The Sky Blue",
"Mars in a Box: Martian Sunsets",
"Wikipedia: Filler (linguistics)",
"Thought Co: Definitions and Examples of Filler Words",
"The Register: Why Do We Say Um?",
"Paper: Listeners' Uses of Um and Uh in Speech Comprehension",
"New York Times: So, Um, How Do You, Like, Stop Using Filler Words?",
"University of Colorado Paper: We, um, have, like, a problem",
"Guardian: Why Do People Say Like So Much?",
"NPR: Why Do We Say Um So Much?",
"BBC: Teen Slang",
"Paper: Fillers, Pauses and Placeholders",
"Cambridge: Hidden Use of Fillers",
"The British National Corpus 2014",
"Language Hat: The Mystery of Fillers",
"The Atlantic : “Men Say 'Uh' and Women Say 'Um'”",
"Language Log: Men and Women’s Use of Words",
"JStor: Filler Words and Floor Holders",
"THE CALIFORNIA STORY 1906 By Thomas A. Edison"
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"textContent": "For episode 101, we're challenging ourselves to make a technically family friendly, swear free episode! Why is the sky blue? Well it turns out it took a lot of science to understand why! And what is speech disfluency? Well it's like... um... you'll see! Images we Talk About: Green Flash Sunset Timestamps: (00:00:00) Intro (00:06:43) Why is the Sky Blue (00:54:28) Speech Disfluency (01:40:45) Outro Support us with a Max Fun Membership! Join our Discord! We also learn about: StellarNet: A Brief History of the Sky’s Blueness Blog: The bizarre myth that Ancient Greeks couldn't see blue 2023 Paper: Revisiting the question “Why is the sky blue?” Wiki- John Tyndall The Conversation: John Tyndall: the forgotten co‑founder of climate science Wiki: Rayleigh Scattering NASA: The Electromagnetic Spectrum Scientific American: Mirages IFL Science: Orange Sky The Great Oxidation Event: How Cyanobacteria Changed Life Royal Museums Greenwich: Why Is The Sky Blue Mars in a Box: Martian Sunsets --- Wikipedia: Filler (linguistics) Thought Co: Definitions and Examples of Filler Words The Register: Why Do We Say Um? Paper: Listeners' Uses of Um and Uh in Speech Comprehension New York Times: So, Um, How Do You, Like, Stop Using Filler Words? University of Colorado Paper: We, um, have, like, a problem Guardian: Why Do People Say Like So Much? NPR: Why Do We Say Um So Much? BBC: Teen Slang Paper: Fillers, Pauses and Placeholders Cambridge: Hidden Use of Fillers The British National Corpus 2014 Language Hat: The Mystery of Fillers The Atlantic : “Men Say 'Uh' and Women Say 'Um'” Language Log: Men and Women’s Use of Words JStor: Filler Words and Floor Holders THE CALIFORNIA STORY 1906 By Thomas A. Edison",
"title": "101: Why is the Sky Blue & Speech Disfluency"
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