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Sidedoor

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🗓️ 18 January 2017

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Transforming things we take for granted: An astronomer who has turned the night sky into a symphony; an architecture firm that has radically rethought police stations; and an audiophile who built a successful record company on underappreciated sounds.

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0:00.0	This is Side Door, a podcast from the Smithsonian.
0:12.7	I'm Megan Dietry, and today we bring you three stories about people reimagining the world
0:17.8	around them.
0:18.8	We're going to tell you about a community trying to reshape its relationship with the police and will meet the man
0:24.8	obsessed with capturing underappreciated sounds.
0:27.7	But first, my co-host Tony Cohn goes out at night to explore the Cosmos.
0:34.0	Okay, so I'm standing on my rooftop in Washington, D.C. It's about 9.30 PM on a Saturday night, turning up for the weekend.
0:52.3	I've just downloaded an app. Saturday night turning up for the weekend.
0:53.2	I've just downloaded an app.
0:55.8	So I hit OK in the stream, enable sound.
0:58.3	Yes, please.
1:01.2	Oh, OK. I'm pointing the phone up to the sky.
1:07.0	Whoa, and it's detecting what on my phone look like beaming purple lights, but that I now know are pulse ours.
1:16.4	And this one that you're hearing has the code J10125304-190.26 hc.
1:30.0	And as I move my phone around the sky, it literally plays different sounds, different pulse
1:36.0	ours here.
1:37.0	Let you listen for a second.
1:41.0	Whoa. What I'm listening to is what the sky sounds like.
1:45.0	Actually, it's not everything in the sky.
1:48.0	I'm hearing pulsars.
1:50.0	The next time you're outside at night, look up.
1:53.0	If you had a very strong telescope, you'd be able to see, among other things,
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