What if a dog didn't have ears?
Episode 13
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Audio file
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July 8th, 2016
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1 hr 5 mins
What is sound?
- The function of music...very cool clip (Devour)
- What is sound? Explains pretty much everything Johnny was talking about (Explain That Stuff!)
- A comprehensive sound wave resource, including a cool slow-motion clip on sound waves in wine glasses (University of Salford)
- The nature of sound (Physics Hypertextbook)
- Sound waves are 'longitudinal', like when you compress a slinky (University of Salford)
- Animation of how longitudinal waves travel (i.e. sound waves) (Wikimedia Commons)
- An article about synthesisers, but with some relevant sections on sound energy, wave shapes & harmonics (Explain That Stuff!)
- In space, no one can hear you scream (Qualitative Reasoning Group, Northwestern University)
- No sound in a vacuum, no sound in space (Physics Central)
- Human ears evolved from ancient fish gills (livescience)
- What evolved first, sight or hearing? This scientist tries to figure it out (Small Accidents of Evolution)
- Radar & sonar (Scholastic)
- Evelyn Glennie: A deaf virtuoso percussionist (Wikipedia)
- Sound & light compared (GCSE, BBC)
- Frequency & pitch (School of Physics, UNSW)
- What is frequency? (Indiana University)
- Scientists capture the sound of an atom for the first time (IFL)
- Speed of sound (Wikipedia)
- The speed of sound in different media (HyperPhysics, Georgia State University)
- How we speak & sing...turns out there's a lot to it (School of Physics, UNSW)
- Vocal sound production (Physics Hypertextbook)
- Hearing range for humans vs other species (Wikipedia)
- How well do dogs & other animals hear? (Louisiana State University)
- The evolution of hearing (Evolution of hearing)
- What are hertz? (Wikipedia)
- Animation: A sine wave with varying frequency (Wikipedia)
- The speed of sound appears to be just related to density...Lucy couldn't figure out if different atoms & molecules vibrate differently in this context (Explain That Stuff!)
- The speed of sound in other materials (NDT Resource Center)
- How do speakers work? (physics.org)
- Loudspeakers (Explain That Stuff!)
- Angus & Julia Stone (Wikipedia)
- AC/DC (Wikipedia)
- Animation: FM waves have their frequency modulated & AM waves have their amplitude modulated (Wikipedia)
- Middle C has a frequency around 261.6 hertz, when using the A440 pitch standard (Wikipedia)
- What is pitch? Our definition of different notes has changed over the centuries! (Encyclopaedia Britannica)
- What is tone? (Encyclopaedia Britannica)
- Online tone generator...take that tone with me! (Online Tone Generator)
- Forced vibration & resonance (the Physics Classroom)
- "The brown note is a hypothetical infrasonic frequency that would cause humans to lose control of their bowels due to resonance" (Wikipedia)
- Fundamental frequency & harmonics (the Physics Classroom)
- Strings, standing waves & harmonics (School of Physics, UNSW)
- How does a guitar work? (School of Physics, UNSW)
- What guitar strings are really doing up close (Science Alert)
- How does a piano work? (Explain That Stuff!)
- Clip: This is nuts! Making a real sound wave out of falling water & a speaker (Brusspup, YouTube)
- Clip: Cool experiment immersing a speaker in water & making sound waves you can see (Showtime SPL, YouTube)
- Clip: Inside a piano (VeryUsefulTools, YouTube)
- A band where the piano player puts his arm inside the piano (Dawn of Midi)
- Podcast about Dawn of Midi (Radiolab)
- 'Circle of fifths' podcast that Johnny mentioned (Surprisingly Awesome)
- Infographic of guitar anatomy & how they work (Best Infographics)
- What is a fret? (Wikipedia)
- What is an octave? "The basic miracle of music" (Wikipedia)
- What is an octave? (Encyclopaedia Britannica)
- Western music scales (Wikipedia)
- Non-Western scales (Wikipedia)
- There are 12 notes in our music system, the main ones plus the sharps & flats (Zebra Keys)
- Pic: Guitar fret dots (My Guitar)
- Tacoma Narrows bridge that collapsed, believed to be caused by 'forced resonance' (Wikipedia)
- Clip: Breaking a wine glass with sound (MIT Video)
- What is audio feedback? (Wikipedia)
- Fact or fiction? An opera singer's piercing voice can shatter glass (Scientific American)
- Clip: A MythBuster's glass shattering montage (Jaime Vendera, YouTube)
- Hearing & hair cells...apparently they don't grow back naturally so be careful kids (University of Wisconsin)
- Compound regenerates auditory hair cells, offering a possible treatment for deafness (Scientific American)
- Bionic Ear Lane, Melbourne (street-directory.com.au)
- Interview: Professor Graeme Clark, developer of the cochlear implant (Australian Academy of Science)
- How does a cochlear implant work? (Cochlear)
- What is brain plasticity & why is it so important? (The Conversation)
- Training the brain to hear better (TIME)
- How does a microphone work? Simple conversion of sound energy (Explain That Stuff!)
- How do ears work? (Australian Hearing)
- The ATR2100 USB - Strange Attractor's microphone of choice (audio-technica)
- Neil from The Young Ones (Wikipedia)
- Bang & Olufsen are indeed Danish (Wikipedia)
- You can now get speakers that are panes of glass (Clear View)
- The rude gesture Johnny was making to explain how speakers & mics work (Shutterstock)
- Taylor Swift
- Sound recording onto analog cylinders & records (Wikipedia)
- How record players & phonographs work (Explain That Stuff!)
- The golden record on Voyager (JPL, NASA)
- What are MP3 files? (Explain That Stuff!)
- Gif: Master record cutting (vinyl gif)
- Ye olde wax cyclinders for phonographs (The Cylinder Archive)
- Phonograph cylinders (Wikipedia)
- Clip: How vinyl records are made (Part 1) (forwardbound, YouTube)
- Clip: How vinyl records are made (Part 2) (forwardbound, YouTube)
- Melbourne Recital Centre
- Elbow (Wikipedia)
- The Corner Hotel, Melbourne
- David Gilmour (Wikipedia)
- Jack White (Wikipedia)
- This is just cool: What do tree rings sound like when played like a record? (IFL)
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