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The Skeptics Guide #858 - Dec 18 2021

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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What's the Connection Between Conversation and Psychic Connection?

In western cultures, on average, we spout out one syllable every hundred mill seconds. When two people are in a conversation, their brains synchronize with each other and they're both synchronizing off of the same stimuli. Is this causing a sort of desynchronization distraction that is degrading our efficiency in having a conversation? And is that contributing to the fact that we get fatigued more quickly when we're in a video conference than we're in inperson conversation?

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