TED Radio Hour

Big mysteries explained through your senses

The frequencies of the waves that I'm talking about are one wave every 50,000 years. So, I mean, you wouldn't even live to see one wave pass you.

TED Radio Hour

Big mysteries explained through your senses

The musical instrument, if you like, of the universe is beginning to wake up. And it wakes up in sequence, starting with the smallest organ pipes and ending with the largest.

TED Radio Hour

Big mysteries explained through your senses

The frequencies of the waves that I'm talking about are one wave every 50,000 years. You wouldn't even live to see one wave pass you.

TED

This Is What the Birth of the Universe Sounded Like | Mark Whittle | TED

The sound waves have turned to stone, so to speak, and become fossilized in the patterns of galaxies.

TED Radio Hour

Big mysteries explained through your senses

The musical instrument, if you like, of the universe is beginning to wake up and it wakes up in sequence, starting with the smallest organ pipes and ending with the largest.

EconTalk

Are We Alone? Cosmic Loneliness and the Longing to Believe (with Adam Kirsch)

the belief that we are not alone has become more common among both scientists and everyday people...the urge to believe that there are sentient beings elsewhere in the universe and that these aliens want to connect with human beings.

Book of the Day

'How We Disappear' is a Stanford historian's take on our personal archives

The universe has been falling apart billions of years longer than life, you know, started and began its its ultimately doomed but elegant rebellion against that. The the universe is allergic really to things being in formation.