We hear incredible stories of lost pets travelling tens and even hundreds of miles home –but scientists struggle to explain how they do it. Dan We’ll hear the view of one scientist today. But before that – I have to ask an important...
So many extraordinary things happen! Sophie That's a good question, and actually, digital news and its effect on traditional newspapers is the subject of today's show. The thing is, if you read a traditional print newspaper like I ...
“Interestingly, these ‘food soliciting’ purrs were also perceived as more urgent and less pleasant-sounding by humans. They were also noted to include high frequency voiced components similar to those produced by human infants when crying.”...
'Is this is the most dangerous job in gasped the voiceover. The ' of Trawlermen were really for the hard sell. It was a documentary about a day in the life of fisher folk in the North Atlantic but in the editing suite it seemed to have acquired the post-production values of The...
Why do we need different symbols? I hear you ask, well,in writing English,we use twenty six letters of the alphabet.But there are more than twenty six sounds in English.In fact,there are over forty sounds in English.And it's not very easy to show these using only the letters of the...
The INTRODUCTION: AFTER KNOWLEDGE 29 vertical text box in the scheme below refers to what humans do with meanings of events: feeling them, to a determinable extent. Consciousness is defined as the feeling of meaning (versus the feeling of what happens, Damasio's neurobiological ...
How do bats use echolocation? Bats make echolocating sounds in their larynxes and emit them through their mouths. Fortunately, most are too high-pitched for humans to hear – some bats can scream at up to 140 decibels, as loud as a jet engine 30m away. Greater horseshoe bat using echoloca...
Humans are a social animal, we will naturally form groups. One of the goals of the pandemic was to create social unrest. RACISM Everybody wants better, better for themselves and their family and in declining order, until it gets to people 'like' themselves, maybe the same race, people the...
(where macaque monkeys and apes might be expected to co-inhabit). None of those who tested positive displayed any symptoms of Ebola infection. This led the authors to conclude that Ebola is not actually pathogenic in humans; in most cases it causes no symptoms, corroborating earlier studies. ...
What Else Can You Do? A‘portable vocal booth’ is, at best, a partial solution to the problem of unappealing room acoustics. If you are forced to record in less than ideal circumstances, there are other measures that should be taken too. The first is to ensure that you are using a ...