The Ears Have It

Big Picture Science

Science, Technology

4.5 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

What’s the difference between a bird call and the sound of a pile driver? Not much, when you’re close to the loudest bird ever. Find out when it pays to be noisy and when noise can worsen your health. Just about everyone eventually suffers some hearing loss, but that’s not merely aging. It’s an ailment we inflict on ourselves. Hear how a team in New York City has put sensors throughout the city to catalog noise sources, hoping to tame the tumult. And can underwater speakers blasting the sounds of a healthy reef bring life back to dead patches of the Great Barrier Reef? Guests: Mark Cartwright – Research Assistant Professor at New York University’s Department of Computer Science and Engineering Charles Mydlarz – Research Assistant Professor at New York University’s Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP) and the Music and Audio Research Lab (MARL) David Owen – Staff writer at The New Yorker, and author of Volume Control: Hearing in a Deafening World Jeff Podos – Professor in the Department of Biology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Steve Simpson – Professor of Marine Biology and Global Change, Exeter University, U.K. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:08.1	drove a few miles out of town and parked near a small lake.
1:14.0	Got out of the car.
1:19.0	And it struck me that it was perfectly quiet.
1:34.6	No sounds, no birds, no wind, not even the rippling of the water on the lake. no the United States, in the world, that are as quiet as that mountain length that you were standing by. We don't realize how much we have filled our environment with sound.
1:38.6	Because the soundscape my ears are used to is a little more tumultuous. I'm Seth Chostak and this is
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1:50.6	And I'm Molly Bentley. Can you hear me? No, because there's too much noise. Well, you're not going deaf, although you may be going deaf. But you're not imagining that the world is getting louder. And this excess racket is more than a nuisance.
2:04.0	Noise pollution is becoming a growing health problem.
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