Hey there, it's Stephen Dubner. Have you noticed that the world has gotten noisy again?

The pandemic quieted things down, but on the noise front, at least things are getting

back to normal. So we thought it would be a good time to replay an episode from our archive.

It's called, please get your noise out of my ears. We have updated facts and figures

where necessary. Also, we need your help for a future episode we are working on. It's about

personal finance. If you have something to say, record a voice memo on your phone and send it

to radioatfreconomics.com. Be sure to include your name, age, where you live, and what you do,

and try to record in a nice quiet place. Here are three questions I'd like you to answer.

Feel free to answer any one, two, or all three. Here we go. Number one, where do you get financial

advice? Number two, what's something you wish you knew about money, or at least wish you

had known sooner? And number three, tell us about a money mistake you made, and maybe the lesson

you learned. Again, use your phone to record a voice memo and send it to radioatfreconomics.com.

Thanks. In advance, and now I hope you enjoy, please get your noise out of my ears.

Humans and animals have evolved in environments that have a lot of noise.

We have noise from rain, we have noise from thunder,

we have noise from other animals like bird song,

we have crickets chirping, but human industrial activities also have introduced a lot of noise.

They're quite different from the sounds that we and other animals have evolved to live with.

Peter Tyak, T-Y-A-C-K, is a behavioral ecologist at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.

And I've studied the sounds of mainly marine mammals, and that's given me an entry point to

understanding how sound travels in the ocean, which is quite different from what we used to

on land. Different how? We as terrestrial mammals are used to vision being the great distant

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