Ways of Knowing The World According to Sound
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New ways of thinking about the world, brought to you by the humanities and The World According to Sound.
We’re working with universities to translate academic research into sound. Each season has a radically different format and topic. You’ll never hear the same kind of thing twice.
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Listening Experience 01: Transposition
The first in a 9-part series dedicated to deep, intentional listening. Episodes of "The Listening Experience" will be released about every four months.
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Cosmic Visions: Sounds of Space
There's a lot to hear in outer space if you change the way you listen.
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Cosmic Visions: Sonic Gravity
The story of how gravitational waves were finally discovered and how we are making sense of them.
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Cosmic Visions: Picturing the Universe
Some of the most iconic images we have of the universe closely resemble 19th-century landscape paintings of the American West. A big part of the reason has to do with how scientists interpreted visual data from telescopes like Hubble.
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Cosmic Visions: Dante's Universe
With the telescopes of the 20th century, astronomers began to see a universe that just so happened to resemble the cosmos as described by a 13th century Italian poet…Dante Alighieri.
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Cosmic Visions: Aliens
An observational error in the 19th century leads to a belief that there is an advanced alien civilization on Mars...which leads to a boom in astronomy investment, research, and actual discoveries, including the first sighting of Pluto.