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Listen Again: Sound And Silence

TED Radio Hour

CHAPTER

The Anicoic Chamber

Rebecca nill has a cocklear implant. She talks about looking forward to turning it off and just being in complete silence. An anicoic chamber's design is to reduce the amount of sound to close to absolute zero. It's used for scientific testing, to see if components vibrate or if they can catch things that maybe they couldn't hear before. But i was fascinated with it because i wanted to go in and just have all the sound of life just completely sucked away.

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