Twenty Thousand Hertz
By Dallas Taylor
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Subscribers: 5055
Reviews: 46
Episodes: 216
Nov 8, 2024
Mostly interesting topics. Some far less so.
Ryan
Oct 10, 2024
One of the best podcasts ever.
Chris
Jun 19, 2024
Could be an interesting podcast but it's just corporate shilling and navel gazing. Interesting topics become boring by presentation. Insincere and fake. YMMV.
Dec 25, 2023
Dec 18, 2023
Good gob!👍
Aug 2, 2023
Jul 27, 2023
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Amy
Apr 17, 2023
A great podcast👍
Mar 23, 2023
Arthur
Nov 16, 2022
One of my favourite podcasts. The presenters treat you as intelligent and provide really insightful looks at different sounds. I've learnt a lot from 20khz
Dec 4, 2021
Nov 14, 2021
total surprise with the Zzzzzzzzzzrr episode!
Randall
Aug 22, 2021
A wonderful way of seeing and observant the world
Texas
Jun 27, 2021
Thoughtful and well-produced podcast. Always learn something new in an entertaining fashion.
Jun 9, 2021
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Description
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I interviewed 5 other Dallas Taylors and things got weird
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May 28, 2025 |
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Mix Notes: Dumb Farts, Alien Crickets & Junkyard Instruments
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May 14, 2025 |
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The Deaf Composer: How Beethoven wrote music he couldn’t hear
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Apr 30, 2025 |
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The Sonic Brand Makeover We Didn’t Know We Needed
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Apr 16, 2025 |
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Inside Apple: Sonic Accessibility
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Apr 02, 2025 |
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“In a World…” The epic evolution of movie trailers
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Mar 19, 2025 |
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“The Autumn, She’s Been Hit!” The wish that changed Halo forever
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Mar 05, 2025 |
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Solar Symphony: Listening to the Sun’s hidden “music”
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Feb 19, 2025 |
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Speaker Terror Upper: When Bass Tapes shook the streets
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Feb 05, 2025 |
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Radio Station Jingles: 80 Years of Earworms
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Jan 22, 2025 |
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Sound Pro Smackdown: Guess That Sound! w/ 3 industry experts
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Dec 04, 2024 |
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Dog Translation Guide: Decoding Barks, Howls, & Growls
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Nov 20, 2024 |
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Cat Translation Guide: Decoding Meows, Purrs, & Chirrups
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Nov 20, 2024 |
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The Voices of Bluey w/ Uncle Stripe
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Oct 23, 2024 |
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The Organic Sound of Bluey w/ Sound Designer Dan Brumm
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Oct 09, 2024 |
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"Blah, blah, blah" and the Ungooglable Phrase
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Sep 25, 2024 |
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Lofi Girl: The story behind 📚 beats to relax/study to
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Aug 28, 2024 |
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How Doctors Listen: A sonic journey through the body
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Aug 21, 2024 |
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The Sound of Apple: Marimbas, Radars & Reflections
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Aug 14, 2024 |
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The Sound of Apple: Tritones, Chords & Origins
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Jul 31, 2024 |
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Listener Stories: Auditory hallucinations & family whistles
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Jun 26, 2024 |
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The dark history of nursery rhymes
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May 29, 2024 |
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Sounds of the Deep: Mysteries and threats beneath the waves
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May 22, 2024 |
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Boom Bling: TikTok's sonic guerrilla marketing
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May 08, 2024 |
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Mixing Seth Meyers: Behind the sound of late night TV
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Apr 17, 2024 |
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Untranslatable Words: Guess That Meaning!
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Apr 03, 2024 |
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Inside Hans Zimmer’s Remote Control Studios
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Mar 20, 2024 |
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Hidden Sounds of America: NYC Hum & Underground Organ
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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All About That Bass: How pop became obsessed with the 808
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Feb 28, 2024 |
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Industrial Musicals: The Golden Age of corporate showtunes
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Feb 21, 2024 |
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Into the Huluverse: The sonic evolution of Hulu
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Jan 24, 2024 |
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Welcome to Twenty Thousand Hertz
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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Tournament of Champions: Guess That Sound! w/ past winners
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Dec 13, 2023 |
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Tune Tech: Distortion, sequencers, Auto-Tune, and more
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Nov 29, 2023 |
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Headphone Handbook: How to pick your perfect pair
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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Sounds That Sell: How companies entice us with sonic candy
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Nov 01, 2023 |
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Auto-Tone: What will cars sound like in the future?
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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Wilhelm Screamix: The sound effect that never dies
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Oct 04, 2023 |
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Subtitles On: Why is movie dialogue so hard to understand?
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Sep 20, 2023 |
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Gremlins, War Rigs, & Star Trek Punks
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Sep 06, 2023 |
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Do you talk to yourself in your head? (Not everyone does)
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Aug 23, 2023 |
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The Legend of Zelda: Tones of the Kingdom
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Aug 09, 2023 |
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The Legend of Zelda: A Beep to the Past
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Jul 26, 2023 |
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From Vinyl to Streaming: How music formats shaped our world
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Jun 21, 2023 |
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The secret history of “Take Me Out to the Ball Game”
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Jun 07, 2023 |
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Vocal Stratosphere: The world’s most extreme singing techniques
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May 24, 2023 |
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Bug Translation Guide: Decoding Buzzes, Chirps, & Clicks
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May 10, 2023 |
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Breathe Deep: How I lost my passion and found my purpose
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Apr 28, 2023 |
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The Spatial Race & the forgotten genius who invented stereo
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Apr 19, 2023 |
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Found In Translation: Guess That Meaning!
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Apr 12, 2023 |
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Why insurance jingles never die
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Mar 22, 2023 |
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Soundalikes: The secret voice behind Toy Story’s Woody
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Mar 08, 2023 |
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Golden: Finding silence in a world of noise
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Feb 22, 2023 |
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Recalculating: The surprising lives of GPS voices
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Jan 25, 2023 |
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Endless Hertz: Guess That Sound! w/ Endless Thread
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Dec 14, 2022 |
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Synth Showdown: Digital vs. Analog
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Nov 16, 2022 |
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Synth Showdown: Moog vs. Buchla
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Nov 02, 2022 |
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A Thousand Words: Audio description for all!
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Oct 19, 2022 |
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The Booj Strikes Back: Why all modern trailers sound the same
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Oct 05, 2022 |
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The weird, wild world of 1-900 numbers
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Sep 21, 2022 |
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Tokyo Rose: World War II’s most controversial radio DJ
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Sep 07, 2022 |
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TikTalk: The woman who sued TikTok for using her voice
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Aug 24, 2022 |
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The sonic secrets behind Ted Lasso
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Aug 10, 2022 |
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Sonic Happiness: A guide to feeling better through sound
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Jul 27, 2022 |
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Shock Horror A: The origin of the dramatic “Dun, dun, duuun!”
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Jul 13, 2022 |
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Sleight of Ear: Behind the scenes w/ Dallas Taylor
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Jul 06, 2022 |
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Breathe: My Unexpected Journey
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Jun 22, 2022 |
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Relearning Boléro: How our brains rewrite the sounds we hear
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Jun 08, 2022 |
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Ghosts in the Hit Machine: The secrets of musical ghostwriters
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May 25, 2022 |
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Why Windows Got Rid of Startup Sounds
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May 11, 2022 |
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Ta-da! The history of Windows’ classic startup sounds
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Apr 27, 2022 |
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The Waterphone: Hollywood’s spookiest sound effect
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Apr 13, 2022 |
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Mind the Gap: NYC & London’s iconic transit voices
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Mar 30, 2022 |
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Hidden Hitmakers: The unsung heroes behind pop’s biggest hits
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Mar 16, 2022 |
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Happy Little Episode: The soothing voice of Bob Ross
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Mar 02, 2022 |
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Pirate Radio: Britain’s AM rebels of the ’60s
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Feb 16, 2022 |
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Being Dallas Taylor: Meeting my name twins
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Feb 02, 2022 |
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Sul Sul! Behind the gibberish language of The Sims
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Jan 19, 2022 |
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Aural Exam: Guess That Sound! w/ Underunderstood
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Dec 15, 2021 |
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The Static Angel: How HBO perfected its sonic identity
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Dec 01, 2021 |
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It’s Not TV: Behind HBO’s legendary sounds
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Nov 17, 2021 |
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One simple trick scientists say will stop snoring
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Nov 10, 2021 |
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Creature Speakers: The art of voicing monsters
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Oct 27, 2021 |
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How blind gamers are changing the world of video games
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Oct 13, 2021 |
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Sports Without Sight: The sound-driven world of blind athletes
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Sep 29, 2021 |
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Sound Cinema: Experiencing film through audio description
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Sep 15, 2021 |
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Sonic Bubbles: Escaping noise, but at what cost?
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Sep 01, 2021 |
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Domestic Symphony: Why your dryer has a theme song
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Aug 18, 2021 |
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The mysterious “Windsor Hum” is finally solved!
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Aug 04, 2021 |
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The Buzzer: Are there secret spy messages on the radio?
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Jul 21, 2021 |
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Stay Tuned: The new voices of the Looney Tunes
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Jul 07, 2021 |
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Inside the Foley Prop Room: Frozen, Jurassic Park & more
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Jun 23, 2021 |
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The Art of Foley: Bringing Slimer & Batman to life
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Jun 09, 2021 |
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Leaky Pipeline: The fight that revolutionized cinema sound
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May 26, 2021 |
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Auditory Icons: Credit card beeps to driverless car melodies
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May 19, 2021 |
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Progression Obsession: Pop music’s most used chord changes
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May 12, 2021 |
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SM7: The mic that shaped sound and culture
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Apr 28, 2021 |
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The Sound of Minecraft: A melancholy masterpiece w/ C418
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Apr 14, 2021 |
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20th Century Fox Fanfare: A family legacy
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Mar 24, 2021 |
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Sonic Weapons: How “sound cannons” are used for control
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Mar 10, 2021 |
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I'm Lovin’ It: How “Ba da ba ba ba” took over the world
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Feb 24, 2021 |
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The Physics of Sound w/ Bill Nye the Science Guy
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Jan 27, 2021 |
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Seeing Sounds, Tasting Names: The world of synesthesia
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Jan 13, 2021 |
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Sing Gently: Singing together, even when apart
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Dec 16, 2020 |
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The Song Hunter: How Alan Lomax saved the sounds of America
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Dec 09, 2020 |
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From Klingon to Dothraki: How sci-fi languages shape worlds
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Dec 02, 2020 |
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Space Audity: The challenges of space communication
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Nov 18, 2020 |
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Sonic Utopia: Can we build a better sounding world?
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Nov 11, 2020 |
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The Cyborg, The Scientist, and the Death of Silence
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Oct 28, 2020 |
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Dies Irae: The death melody haunting Hollywood
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Oct 21, 2020 |
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Perfect Pitch: Unlocking Jacob Collier’s musical brilliance
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Oct 14, 2020 |
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Tyrannosaurus FX: What dinosaurs really sounded like
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Napster: How free music broke the industry
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Sep 30, 2020 |
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Vocal Discords: When nodules silence singers
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Sep 16, 2020 |
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Deepfake Dallas: How AI learned to speak like me
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Sep 02, 2020 |
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The Weight of Noise: One writer’s struggle in New York City
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Aug 19, 2020 |
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Tudum! The story behind the iconic Netflix sound
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Aug 05, 2020 |
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McElroys, Mysteries, and Me: Guess That Sound! w/ MBMBAM
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Jul 22, 2020 |
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Hamilton’s Sonic Secrets: Behind the Broadway phenomenon
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Jul 08, 2020 |
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Stop, Collaborate and Listen: Can you copyright a vibe?
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Jun 24, 2020 |
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Copyrights & Wrongs: Musical Inspiration vs. Plagiarism
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Jun 10, 2020 |
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Makin’ Whoopee: The hilarious history & science of fart sounds
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May 27, 2020 |
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Pew Pew! The making of Star Wars’ iconic sounds
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May 13, 2020 |
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That’s All Folks! Mel Blanc’s curtain call
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Apr 29, 2020 |
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What’s Up, Doc? Mel Blanc and the magic of Looney Tunes
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Apr 15, 2020 |
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Twenty Parts Per Thousand: Designing with smell
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Apr 01, 2020 |
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Cremona: Saving the world’s most prized violin sounds
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Mar 18, 2020 |
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Satanic Panic: Backwards messages and '80s hysteria
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Mar 04, 2020 |
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Noise “R” Us: The evolution of noisy toys
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Feb 19, 2020 |
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Good Vibes: Unlocking music’s hidden power over your brain
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Feb 05, 2020 |
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4’33”: John Cage’s revolutionary “silent” musical piece
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Jan 22, 2020 |
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The Seinfeld theme song w/ Composer Jonathan Wolff
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Jan 08, 2020 |
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Sonic Wonderland: The world’s most incredible sounding places
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Dec 16, 2019 |
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Historically Speaking: How language & accent shape your brain
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Dec 02, 2019 |
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Vroom Vroom: The symphony of high-performance engines
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Nov 18, 2019 |
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Baby Shark: From summer camp song to viral earworm
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Nov 04, 2019 |
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Virtual Choir: 8,000 Voices, One Song
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Oct 21, 2019 |
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The Price is Right: The drama behind TV’s catchiest theme song
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Oct 14, 2019 |
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The Loudness War: Can streaming finally end it?
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Oct 07, 2019 |
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The [COMPRESSED] history of music mastering
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Sep 23, 2019 |
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You’ve Got Mail: The voice behind AOL
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Sep 16, 2019 |
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From Spinal Tap to The Simpsons: Voice acting w/ Harry Shearer
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Sep 09, 2019 |
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Hear Here: The messy history of architectural acoustics
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Aug 26, 2019 |
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What makes Stradivarius violins so special?
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Aug 12, 2019 |
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808: The drum machine that changed music forever
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Jul 29, 2019 |
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Soundmarks: AT&T, United Airlines, and inventive sonic branding
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Jul 15, 2019 |
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Deaf Gain: The promise and controversy of cochlear implants
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Jul 01, 2019 |
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Plants That Listen (and some that sing)
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Jun 17, 2019 |
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Sonic Illusions: Can you really trust your ears?
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Jun 03, 2019 |
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Mother of Dragons(sounds): Game of Thrones’ bittersweet sounds
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May 20, 2019 |
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Sound Escapes: Nature’s untouched soundtrack
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May 06, 2019 |
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The Voyager Golden Record: Humanity’s message to the cosmos
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Apr 22, 2019 |
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Bird Translation Guide: Decoding Tweets, Hoots, & Warbles
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Apr 08, 2019 |
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Phone Tones: The hidden language of phone number beeps
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Mar 25, 2019 |
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The Booj: The secret sound formula behind blockbuster trailers
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Mar 11, 2019 |
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Dining on Decibels: Why are restaurants so noisy?
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Feb 25, 2019 |
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Do Not Disturb: The unseen impacts of alarms and alerts
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Feb 11, 2019 |
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Blue! 42! How helmet radio changed the NFL
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Jan 28, 2019 |
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Silence: Dispatches from the quietest place on Earth
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Jan 14, 2019 |
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A sonic journey through the Solar System
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Dec 26, 2018 |
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Boots ’n Cats: The scientific secrets of beatboxing
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Dec 10, 2018 |
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Being George Clooney: Dubbing Hollywood celebrities
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Nov 26, 2018 |
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The Xbox Startup Sound: Crafting a console classic
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Nov 12, 2018 |
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Theater for the Mind: The Golden Age of radio dramas
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Oct 29, 2018 |
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Theremin: The instrument that defined classic sci-fi & horror
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Oct 15, 2018 |
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Cartoon Sound Effects: From Steamboat Willie to The Jetsons
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Oct 01, 2018 |
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Behind the Mic: The making of Twenty Thousand Hertz
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Sep 17, 2018 |
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Jingles: How they hooked us and why they vanished
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Sep 04, 2018 |
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“Intel Inside” and other sonic branding brilliance
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Aug 20, 2018 |
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Loop Groups: The art of movie background chatter
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Aug 06, 2018 |
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Slot Machines: The addictive power of sound
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Jul 23, 2018 |
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Misophonia: Why we can't stand certain sounds
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Jul 09, 2018 |
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THX Deep Note Part 2: How a lost file shaped movie history
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Jun 25, 2018 |
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The THX Deep Note: From chaos to cinematic legend
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Jun 11, 2018 |
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Amen Break: The world’s most sampled drum beat
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May 29, 2018 |
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Ultrasonic Tracking: Are our phones really listening to us?
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May 14, 2018 |
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ASMR: Why certain sounds give you tingles
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Apr 30, 2018 |
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Broadway to Cirque du Soleil: Sound design for the stage
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Apr 16, 2018 |
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Hidden Melodies: Discovering the music in our speech
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Apr 02, 2018 |
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Epileptic Symphonies: Turning seizures into music
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Mar 19, 2018 |
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Hamilton: Crafting the sound of the Broadway smash hit
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Mar 05, 2018 |
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False Alarm: How the Emergency Alert System went wrong
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Feb 19, 2018 |
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Muzak: How background music took over the world
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Feb 05, 2018 |
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Six O'Clock Soundtrack: The art of TV news music
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Jan 22, 2018 |
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314-914-6093: When Michelle Obama tweets your phone number
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Jan 08, 2018 |
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The Gift: Dr. Amar Bose’s audio legacy
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Dec 25, 2017 |
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Facebook & Google Pixel: Designing the perfect alert sound
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Dec 11, 2017 |
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Let It Beep: The rise and fall of the Mac startup chime
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Nov 27, 2017 |
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Disney Parks: How Imagineers use sound to enchant visitors
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Nov 13, 2017 |
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Spooky Sounds: The secrets of horror sound design
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Oct 30, 2017 |
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Acoustical Umbilical Cord: Why crying makes us human
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Oct 17, 2017 |
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Level Up: How video games tell an immersive story through sound
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Oct 03, 2017 |
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Watergate: How a tape recorder brought down a president
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Sep 19, 2017 |
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Sonic Seasoning: Can sound affect our taste buds?
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Sep 05, 2017 |
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Fight or Flight: Why airplane sounds make us anxious
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Aug 22, 2017 |
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Sound Firsts: Landmark recordings in history
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Aug 08, 2017 |
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Noise Pollution: The hidden costs
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Jul 25, 2017 |
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Silent Sea: Whalesong & Undersea Noise Pollution
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Jul 11, 2017 |
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Evolution of Accents: From Shakespeare to Valley Girl
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Jun 27, 2017 |
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Forensic Audio: How sound solves crimes
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Jun 13, 2017 |
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The Wilhelm Scream: Hollywood’s most iconic sound effect
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May 30, 2017 |
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The voices behind Dragon Ball Z & Firewatch
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May 16, 2017 |
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Hearing Loss: What causes it and how to prevent it
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May 02, 2017 |
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From Screams to Serenity: How sound shapes us
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Apr 18, 2017 |
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Foley: Hollywood’s hidden sound heroes
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Apr 04, 2017 |
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What do other planets sound like?
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Mar 21, 2017 |
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Dolls That Talk (and some that listen)
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Mar 07, 2017 |
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Car Sounds: Crafting every click, rev, and beep
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Feb 21, 2017 |
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Audio Descriptions: Not just for the visually impaired
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Feb 07, 2017 |
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Inside Movie Soundtracks: How every layer tells a story
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Jan 24, 2017 |
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From Analog to Digital (and back again)
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Jan 10, 2017 |
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Sounds We've Lost: Echoes of the Past
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Dec 27, 2016 |
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The Windsor Hum: Canada’s Most Mysterious Sound
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Dec 13, 2016 |
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How 8-Bit sounds became iconic
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Nov 29, 2016 |
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The NBC Chimes: How three notes made history
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Nov 15, 2016 |
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Becoming the voice of Siri… by accident?
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Nov 01, 2016 |