Sound And Silence

TED Radio Hour

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Science, Society & Culture, Technology, Social Sciences

4.3 • 21.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Original broadcast date: October 16, 2020. Sound surrounds us, from cacophony even to silence. But depending on how we hear, the world can be a different auditory experience for each of us. This hour, TED speakers explore the science of sound. Guests on the show include NPR All Things Considered host Mary Louise Kelly, neuroscientist Jim Hudspeth, writer Rebecca Knill, and sound designer Dallas Taylor.

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0:00.0	This is the TED Radio Hour.
0:04.4	Each week, groundbreaking TED Talks.
0:06.8	Our job now is to dream big.
0:08.2	Delivered at TED conferences.
0:09.9	To bring about the future we want to see.
0:12.0	Around the world.
0:12.9	To understand who we are.
0:14.8	From those talks, we bring you speakers and ideas that will surprise you.
0:20.0	You just don't know what you're going to find.
0:21.9	Challenge you.
0:22.7	We truly have to ask ourselves, like, why is it noteworthy?
0:25.1	And even change you.
0:26.3	I literally feel like I'm a different person.
0:28.4	Yes.
0:29.4	Do you feel that way?
0:31.1	Ideas worth spreading.
0:33.4	From Ted and NPR.
0:40.7	I'm Manoosh Zamoroti.
0:43.3	What if your job depended on listening, but you had trouble hearing?
0:49.1	It's, I guess, one of the biggest ironies from the Department of You Could Not make this up, that, yes, my job is to ask people questions and then listen, like, really, really listen to the answers.
1:04.2	And I can't really hear.
1:06.3	This is Mary Louise Kelly.
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