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The best from World Listening Day 2013
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Why Sharapova's grunts remind me of a whip-bird
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How the Centre Court roof changes the sound at Wimbledon
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How weather affects sound at Glastonbury
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Youtube experiment for Glastonbury
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Can the noise of a football crowd boil eggs?
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What makes a water feature sound good?
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The snow crunch
I was walking in snowy Manchester yesterday and was astonished by how loud the crunching underfoot was. The snow has been on the ground for a couple of days, and the compacted snow on the pavements seems to have reached the optimal consistency for making loud crunching sounds. Why does snow make a crunching sound…
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Fingernails and blackboards
Why is the sound of fingernails dragging down a chalk board so horrible? This question just won’t go away. Ever since I ran an experiment into the worst sound in the World (www.sound101.org), a lack of a good answer has been bothering me. I’ve been doing some science shows for sixth formers in London recently,…