Dispatches: The Sound of Science

Outside Podcast

Sports, Wilderness

4.4 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2016

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Scientists are compiling huge amounts of data on the impact of global warming, but the story of that data often gets lost. Enter NikSawe, a researcher at Stanford who is transforming big data into music. Two parts science, one art, data sonification turns the numbers we tend to ignore into a very human story, and could potentially help scientists identify new trends and correlations that are easier to hear than to see.

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0:06.0	They do this by assessing your actual knowledge, your Health IQ, which means asking real questions.
0:13.0	Tough ones with a time limit.
0:15.0	They really want to know what you know.
0:18.0	My co-producer Robbie Carver races bikes fairly seriously,
0:21.0	so he knows a lot about his health but I was curious how much
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1:12.0	These are dispatches. Stories from our writers in the field.
1:20.3	As journalists and storytellers, covering climate change presents a lot of really unique challenges.
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