Cooking With Sound

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A growing body of research shows that chronic noise is not just annoying, it's a largely unrecognized health threat that is increasing the risk of hypertension, stroke and heart attacks worldwide, including for more than 100 million Americans. buff.ly/3rLSDCU

An in-DEPTH overview of how submersibles use acoustic modems to communicate underwater buff.ly/46RtJBJ

A technique called electrical network frequency matching can be used to date recordings and prove they haven't been edited buff.ly/3z5vUSP

In a new paper, researchers used a series of sonic illusions to show that people perceive silences much as they hear sounds buff.ly/44E91U8

Scientists lure fish to dead reefs using speakers playing healthy coral sounds buff.ly/35Vjxbk

Your plants are talking to you: new research demonstrates that stressed-out plants emit ultrasonic airborne sounds (!) that can actually indicate the condition of the plants (!!!) buff.ly/3nHKhKs

What does ASMR—or autonomous sensory meridian response—do to your brain? This interactive article dives deep buff.ly/41kT3vZ

How Does Human Echolocation Work? Blind since he was very young, Daniel Kish is the world’s foremost proponent of using vocal clicks to navigate buff.ly/44zpFoH

"Ore-some Volts," a Eurorack synthesiser module that generates truly random control voltages, gates and triggers by radioactive events from a jar filled with REAL ACTUAL URANIUM ORE buff.ly/3NOvk4x

Noise pollution is more than a nuisance. It’s a health risk—research has shown that noise pollution not only drives hearing loss, tinnitus, and hypersensitivity to sound, but can cause or exacerbate cardiovascular disease and many more serious problems buff.ly/3HIWSEh

An excellent overview of the Vowel Space, the continuous field of vowel sounds that has very interesting overlaps with color spaces buff.ly/41D2AQd

AI song featuring fake Drake and Weeknd vocals pulled from streaming services buff.ly/3UK2C60

Universal Music Asks Streaming Services to Block AI Access to Its Songs buff.ly/3L0n1AE

What are the most common tinnitus frequencies? buff.ly/3KxhH6p

This is easily the most creative use of SQL I've ever heard—NoiSQL, a tool to generate music via declarative SQL queries (!!) buff.ly/3Mzjg6e

How tiny, cheap smart speakers called "Sound Boxes" unlocked the rise of digital payments in India buff.ly/3K7LVgc

Acoustic cameras can visualize where sound is coming from in a scene—but how do they work, and what can they be used for? buff.ly/3zxX9FE

New research indicates that around 18% of the UK general population experience misophonia, strong negative reactions when hearing certain common sounds, such as chewing or sniffing buff.ly/3ZijJwG