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It's Wednesday, May 18th, 2022. I'm Jackson Bird today. The history and future of making music out of DNA sequences, particle vibrations, and more. Plus, a new study indicates that cats recognize the names of their cat friends and their human roommates.

They're just ignoring you because they want to, not because they don't understand.

And Alamo Draft House is hitting the road for their 25th anniversary.

Here's some cool stuff for your ride home.

Making art out of data is hot right now. Data visualizations especially, you know,

beautifully designed charts and graphs illustrating interesting data that might otherwise be

passed over. But what about the audio side of things? What about turning data into music?

It's a small but varied practice that scientists have been exploring in different independent ways for at least five decades now.

And Sophia Quaglia recently did a rundown of some of those standout examples in Smithsonian Magazine.

So one of the earliest public examples of this was a cassette tape

produced in the early 80s called DNA Suite, made by biomolecular engineer and pianist David

Deamer, along with a handful of colleagues. Deamer got the idea when he noticed that three of the

four bases of DNA, A, G, and C correspond with music notes.

If the fourth base T were given the note E, then you could play quite a few common chords

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