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News: Close Listening: How Sound Reveals the Invisible

August 13, 2015 by Adriane Kuzminski

"Peace and Love" by Banksy. Article written by Adriane Kuzminski.
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“Peace and Love” by Banksy

As this is the month of favorites, what do you “heart”? In NPR’s Morning Edition, Christopher Joyce and Bill McQuay discuss how the invention of the stethoscope in 1816 revolutionized cardiovascular and respiratory diagnoses. They also visit the world’s largest collection of natural sounds located at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, where, thanks to the invention of the phonograph in 1880, one can experience other living stories told through their nature patterns and harmonics.

This story is both an article and a radio segment, and it is part of Morning Edition’s weekly summer series on the “culture of listening” among researchers. The most recent edition contains more audio from the Cornell collection, featuring whale songs and their complex patterns and ethereal echoes from the bottom of the sea.

Filed Under: news Tagged With: audio collection, Bill McQuay, Christopher Joyce, Cornell, medical recording, natural recording, nature, npr, radio, stethoscope

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