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Rend Me Your Ears

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

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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From: Big Picture Science

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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.

Guests:

George Foy – Author of Zero Decibels: The Quest for Absolute Silence
Garret Keizer – Author of The Unwanted Sound of Everything We Want: A Book About Noise
Craig Hogan – Director for Particle Astrophysics at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

Playing: Rend Me Your Ears
From: Big Picture Science

Rendmeyourearsmed_small

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.

Guests:

George Foy – Author of Zero Decibels: The Quest for Absolute Silence
Garret Keizer – Author of The Unwanted Sound of Everything We Want: A Book About Noise
Craig Hogan – Director for Particle Astrophysics at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

Playing: Rend Me Your Ears
From: Big Picture Science

Rendmeyourearsmed_small

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.

Guests:

George Foy – Author of Zero Decibels: The Quest for Absolute Silence
Garret Keizer – Author of The Unwanted Sound of Everything We Want: A Book About Noise
Craig Hogan – Director for Particle Astrophysics at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

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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.

Guests:

George Foy – Author of Zero Decibels: The Quest for Absolute Silence
Garret Keizer – Author of The Unwanted Sound of Everything We Want: A Book About Noise
Craig Hogan – Director for Particle Astrophysics at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

Broadcast History

first aired 7/5/10

Additional Files

Listing - Rend Me Your Ears (Rend_Me_Your_Ears.doc)

Additional Credits

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