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The best from World Listening Day 2013
Some of the best from yesterday’s World Listening Day
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Why Sharapova's grunts remind me of a whip-bird
Why Sharapova’s grunts are like a whip-bird
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How the Centre Court roof changes the sound at Wimbledon
How the roof of the Centre Court at Wimbledon changes a thwack to a thwock as the racket hits the ball
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How weather affects sound at Glastonbury
How weather affects the sound at festivals like Glastonbury
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Youtube experiment for Glastonbury
What makes a geat mobile recording, we’re trying to find out using YouTube clips from Glastonbury.
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Can the noise of a football crowd boil eggs?
Can a football crowd cook an egg: only with vuvuzelas.
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What makes a water feature sound good?
I was refilling the pond in my garden (it got damaged by ice) and noticed the huge range of sounds that I could make. Moving the hose around so the refilling water hit the rocks instead of the pond surface, changing the height of the hose or turn the water flow up or down, all…
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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,…