Today we discuss the psychological effects of listening to podcasts, how climate change actually makes us more likely to engage in hate speech, and how giving plants alcohol in the form of ethanol can make them resistant to drought. 

Podcast Friends 

• “Listening to podcasts may help satisfy our psychological need for social connection, study finds” by Beth Ellwood
  • https://www.psypost.org/2022/11/listening-to-podcasts-may-help-satisfy-our-psychological-need-for-social-connection-study-finds-64395
• “Why people listen: Motivations and outcomes of podcast listening” by Stephanie J. Tobin
  • https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0265806

Drunk Plants 

• “Getting Plants ‘Drunk’ Insulates them Against Drought, According to New Research” by Andy Corbley
  • https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/getting-plants-drunk-insulates-them-against-drought-according-to-new-research/
• “Pretreating soil with ethanol protects plants from drought, study finds” by Khurram Bashir
  • https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/08/220824225727.htm

Hot Temper

• “AI-Based Research Reveals That Extreme Temperatures Fuel Online Hate Speech” by Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
  • https://neurosciencenews.com/extreme-weather-hate-speech-21374/
• “Online Hate Speech Increases During Extreme Hot and Cold Weather, Study Shows” by Jeffrey Kluger
  • https://time.com/6211832/extreme-weather-twitter-hate-speech/

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