Diversified Farming, Sense of Smell, Simple Rhythms
Today, you\u2019ll learn about how diversifying farms has a ton of upsides and virtually no downsides, the way we tend to predict how something will smell before we smell it, and a universally shared preference for simple rhythms in music.
Diversified Farming
- \u201cMajor study reports that people and environment both benefit from diversified farming, while bottom lines also thrive.\u201d University of Copenhagen. 2024.
- \u201cJoint environmental and social benefits from diversified agriculture.\u201d by Laura Vang Rasmussen, et al. 2024.
- \u201cThe Green Revolution: Norman Borlaug and the Race to Fight Global Hunger.\u201d by Ray Offenheiser. 2020.
Sense of Smell
- \u201cThe sense of smell is influenced by cues from other senses.\u201d Stockholm University. 2024.
- \u201cOlfactory categorization is shaped by a transmodal cortical network for evaluating perceptual predictions.\u201d by Stephen Pierzchajlo, et al. 2024.
Simple Rhythms
- \u201cCross-cultural research reveals universal bias towards simple rhythmic ratios in music.\u201d by Eric W. Dolan. 2024.
- \u201cCommonality and variation in mental representations of music revealed by a cross-cultural comparison of rhythm priors in 15 countries.\u201d by Nori Jacoby, et al. 2024.
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