Caption: Rend Me Your Ears, Credit: Seth Shostak
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Rend Me Your Ears 

Rend Me Your Ears

Series: Big Picture Science
From: Big Picture Science
Length: 00:54:00

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Our buzzing, humming, whirling, machine-driven world is a poster child for technological progress, and has driven one man to search for silence; we’ll hear what he didn’t hear. Read the full description.

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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.

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Piece Description

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.

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Broadcast History

first aired 7/5/10

Additional Files

Additional Credits

Seth Shostak - Host and Producer
Molly Bentley - Co-Host and Executive Producer
Gary Niederhoff - Producer
Barbara Vance - Production Assistant
Jay Weiler - Assistant

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