Episode 9: Is the world louder now than it used to be?

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Apr 16, 201400:22:09Science & Medicine

After repeatedly failing to find a room on the campus of Carnegie Mellon that is silent enough to record our podcast in, we asked ourselves this question. Because every little sound messing up our pristine recording—the...

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