Today you’ll learn about how we are able to measure depression through speech patterns, a recent study that explores whether or not eating at a certain time of day affects weight, and how researchers used paintings to assess pollution levels during the industrial revolution.

Speech Signals of Depression

“New research indicates signs of depression can be detected in speech patterns” by Laura Staloch
- https://www.psypost.org/2023/01/new-research-indicates-signs-of-depression-can-be-detected-in-speech-patterns-65196
“Detecting subtle signs of depression with automated speech analysis in a non-clinical sample” by Alexandra König et al.
- https://bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12888-022-04475-0

What Time to Eat?

“Association of Eating and Sleeping Intervals With Weight Change Over Time: The Daily24 Cohort” by Di Zhao et al.
- https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/JAHA.122.026484#d2071692e1
“Total Meals, Not Timing, Drives Long-term Body Weight Changes” by Todd Neale
- https://www.tctmd.com/news/total-meals-not-timing-drives-long-term-body-weight-changes

Monet Haze

“That dreamy haze in Monet’s impressionist paintings? Air pollution, study says.” By Kasha Patel
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/01/31/air-pollution-impressionism-monet-turner/?utm_source=reddit.com
“Paintings by Turner and Monet depict trends in 19th century air pollution” by Anna Lea Albright and Peter Huybers
- https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2219118120
“Garden at Sainte-Adresse” by The MET
- https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437133

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