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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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