Slashologies, Dash Extras, Slash Acoustic Ecology

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Every few weeks we release a new smologys episode, which has been trimmed of sex and filth and my swears. Susan hale does so much behind the scenes, including handling merch at ologis murch dot com if you want it. Nick thorburn of the band islands made the theme music, and each week, the bird song of my dawn. O thanksyou to everyone who sleeps nice ones. Its miks my day. And if you stick around until the end of the episode, i tell you secret. This week's secret is that to day's hili was pointing out some deer out of the back window for my dad, who loved spotting them from under

Insects humming. Birds squawking. Chainsaws buzzing? What does the rainforest sound like? Or the oceans outside of port cities? Is the world getting louder? And what can recording devices detect that our ears – especially mine, Alie’s – can’t? Acoustic Ecologist Dr. Eddie Game of the Nature Conservancy has asked conservation questions over decades of work in 20 countries, and even though his microphone for this interview sucked, his stories and wisdom are a pleasure to hear. Also: is it okay to talk to owls? How much of timber harvesting is legal? And how do communities come together to protect the lands around them? Also: the most elusive and coolest midnight parrot.

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