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Dispatches: The Sound of Science

Sep 20, 2016
23:57
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 2min
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2
The Importance of Climate Science Stories
02:00 • 2min
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The Importance of Data Sonification
03:37 • 2min
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The Decline of the Yellow Cedar Tree
05:34 • 2min
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The Yellow Cedar's Tipping Point
07:20 • 2min
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The Story of a Beautiful Tree Being Decimated
08:50 • 2min
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How to Render a Tree
10:28 • 2min
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The Effects of Climate Change on the Yellow Cedar
12:10 • 3min
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The Story of the Western Hemlock
15:06 • 3min
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The Potential of Data Sonification to Find New Trends and Correlations
17:59 • 2min
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The Outside Podcast
20:07 • 4min
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Scientists are compiling huge amounts of data on the impact of global warming, but the story of that data often gets lost. Enter NikSawe, a researcher at Stanford who is transforming big data into music. Two parts science, one art, data sonification turns the numbers we tend to ignore into a very human story, and could potentially help scientists identify new trends and correlations that are easier to hear than to see.

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