Delicious food sounds, disgusting food sounds (with special commentary on particular food sounds that disgust Professor Jean Berko Gleason), everything, and nothing — all of these turn up in this week’s Improbable Research podcast.
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This week, Marc Abrahams tells about:
- Sounds delicious. (Oliver Amft, Mathias Stäger, Paul Lukowicz, and Gerhard Tröster (2005). ‘Analysis of Chewing Sounds for Dietary Monitoring.’ UbiComp 2005: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, Tokyo, Japan, 11–14 September: 56–72. / Drake, B. K. (1963). ‘Food Crushing Sounds: An Introductory Study.’ Journal of Food Science 28 (2): 233–41. / Watt, D. M. (1966). ‘Gnathosonics: A Study of Sounds Producedby the Masticatory Mechanism.’ Journal of Prosthetic Dentistry 16 (1): 73–82. Featuring dramatic readings by Jean Berko Gleason.) Here’s detail from the gnathosonics paper:
- Size, Timing, Everything, and Nothing. (“Size Is Everything,” Y. Arata, Nature Structural Biology, vol. 4, no. 2, February1997, pp. 93-4 / “Size Isn’t Everything,” D. Tyler and N.E. Baker, Bioessays, vol. 25, no. 1, January 2003, pp. 5-8. / “Timing Isn’t Everything,” S. Nelson, Neuron, vol. 26, no. 3, June 2000, pp. 545-6. / “Timing Is Everything,” K. Fox, Neuron, vol. 27, no. 1, July 2000, pp. 1-3. / “Do Everything,” R.A. Fronduti, Annals of Internal Medicine, vol. 121, no. 111, December 1994, pp. 900-1. / “Doing Nothing,” H.L. Fred, South Medical Journal, vol. 85, no. 4, April 1992, p. 343. / “When Does ‘Everything’ Mean Everything?” A. Rayo, Analysis, vol. 63, no. 278, April 2003, pp. 100-6. Featuring dramatic readings by Daniel Rosenberg.)
The mysterious John Schedler or the shadowy Bruce Petschek perhaps did the sound engineering this week.
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