How much information is actually picked up by listening to this compared to normal? I can listen to lofi without paying attention but Sagan isn't something that you can learn by osmosis. Or is the purpose of this to be an actively listener?
as someone w/ adhd, I think it's to calm parts of the brain while working on other stuff, or at least that's what it seems to do for me, I really want this on Spotify, so I don't need headphones.
I do a dyi of this quite a lot just having an earbud in one ear and headphones on at the same time so one on the phone one on the PC and it will end up with a podcast in one ear with lofi on headphones in the background while going through chore todos etc. Not sure it makes any difference at all, as in the same amount of lite work gets done (and similar qty of rewind jogging to podcast as a task's demand on focus goes up/down); just it's a nicer experience overall. Maybe more deliberate syncing of the music to the content gives it a more cinematic quality?
This is a fantastic MVP, great work. For a next version, it would be neat to control the volume of the music. I would like to emphasize the lecture a tad more.
13 Minutes to the Moon is a podcast series about 13 minutes of radio communications up to Apollo 11 landing.
The magic of it comes from the music composed by Hans Zimmer making the podcast an absolutely favourite of mine that I can listen to again and again (like any good album.) Given that, I think will enjoy this and the other references given in the comments here.
My favorite Spotify genre for awhile has been "Wattswave," which is Alan watts lectures over chill/expansive ambient music