Rend Me Your Ears

Big Picture Science

Science, Technology

4.5 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2011

⏱️ 53 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Shh - can you keep it down? Nope. Not unless you want to do away with civilization. Our buzzing, humming, whirling, machine-driven world is a poster child for technological progress, right? As is hearing loss. It’s driven one man to search the world for silence. We’ll hear what he didn’t hear, and what Einstein predicted we should hear in deep space, where gravitational waves may reveal the hidden sounds of the universe, including the birth of black holes. Guests: George Foy - Author of Zero Decibels: The Quest for Absolute Silence Garret Keizer - Author of The Unwanted Sound of Everything We Want Craig Hogan - Director for Particle Astrophysics at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Descripción en español First aired July 5, 2010 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	You're listening to an airwave media podcast.
0:05.0	The world is filled with many questions such as, did giants exist?
0:09.0	What is junk DNA?
0:10.4	Does it mean that you're trash?
0:11.8	Do you ever wonder if aliens have underwater bases in our oceans and that's why there are so many
0:16.8	UFO sightings off the coast of islands all over the world?
0:20.8	How serious even is climate change and when should we start building our rafts?
0:25.0	Hello everyone, you may recognize me as Gabby from the History of Everything podcast.
0:29.0	And my name is Bruna, and you don't recognize me from anything yet. Together we're two
0:34.6	scientists who explore the answers to these questions and many many more in our new
0:38.2	podcast Mystery of Everything available everywhere you get your podcast.
0:43.0	Tech moves fast.
0:46.0	So keep pace with the Daily Crunch Podcast from Tech Crunch.
0:50.0	With new episodes every day,
0:52.0	this podcast will give you a quick overview on everything you need and should know about startups, new tech, regulations, and more.
1:01.0	Listen to Tech Crunch Daily Crunch now wherever you get your
1:05.1	podcasts. That's Tech Crunch Daily Crunch, wherever you get your podcasts. asks.
1:15.0	Okay, Molly, clap your hands.
1:19.0	Okay, Molly, clap your hands. Okay, you're looking for applause, Seth?
1:21.0	See, when you slam your hands together like that what you're doing is you're making a
1:25.5	sudden change in the pressure of the air near your hands and that causes a wave to move
1:30.4	through the room a pressure wave. Where, where does the pressure come from?
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Big Picture Science, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Big Picture Science and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.