A Quiet Place: echolocation, cochlear implant vs hearing aid, and aliens
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A Quiet Place
Episode: 149
What: Be quiet or the monsters will kill you
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Show Notes
Surviving without sound
Deafness. How loud is a fart? Cochlear implants. Alien defense engineering.
Cochlear implants
How cochlear implants differ from hearing aids. How a cochlear implant works. The difficulties of hearing loss.
Grain Entrapment
Ughhhhhhhhh. Compression and suffocation.
Echolocation
The strangeness of terrestrial echolocation. Frequency adaptations for different types of prey. Signal rate at different distances.
The creatures
Planetary orbit situations with extended periods of surface darkness. Extremophile armor development. Echolocation evolution. Space cat behaviour. Dinner Time ambulation.
Killing aliens
Feedback loops. Amplitude vs frequency and damaging the hearing apparatus.
Links
Shooting Down a Lost Drone and why Dogs Tilt their Heads – Smarter Every Day
BBC Radio 4 – In Our Time, Echolocation
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