Can You Die Screaming?

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Lisa mastinski: Can you die from screaming? Will you? I don't think so. Lots of people have died screaming, right? But i don't think screaming would be the cause of death. You literally scream from the cradle to the grave,. perhaps, depending on the we that you go out. It's just one of these extremely important and interesting vocalizations. If we could hear that scream, if we could hear the em eh, it probably wouldn't be as interesting. Oh, no, but such point, yes. That's what makes it really interesting. We're left to come to our own conclusions. And that's, that's the essence of good art,

I scream, you scream, we all scream for… a brand new, screaming hot episode of Ologies. Be warned *slaps the top of this ep* you can fit so many screams in this bad boy. (Seriously though, there’s a lot of screaming in this episode, it’s probably not the one to gently fall asleep to.) What kinds of screams you ask? We got birds, foxes, caterpillars, movie stars, children, James Bond? YES. What is a scream? Is it the same as yelling? How far can you hear a scream? Why do we scream at concerts? What’s up with primal scream therapy? Join us as we hoot and holler with internationally acclaimed Emory professor of psychology Dr. Harold Gouzoules for the answers to these and so many more of your questions as we learn about the study of that most animal of vocalizations: screaming.

Dr. Gouzoules’s Emory University Bioacoustics Lab

A donation was made to American Diabetes Association