This is the third episode of a three-part series about sonic tactics, and it’s been quite a journey. So far, I’ve talked about how animals use sound in the wild, from spiders doing wasp impressions to sperm whales whose calls can be deadly at close range, and how people in the past have learned to […]
Scary Pigs and Phantom Planes: Audio Warfare Through the Ages
During my last episode about sonic tactics, I talked about the different audio strategies that animals have developed for hunting prey and escaping predators, whether they’re orcas using tail slaps to stun schools of fish or moths evading a bat’s sonar with their clicks. As it turns out, some of those strategies are surprisingly similar […]
Tooth, Claw, and Clamor: How Animals Use the Power of Sound to Survive
Five years ago, the first stories broke about a mysterious syndrome affecting American and Canadian diplomats in Cuba. Each case began with the victim hearing inexplicable grating sounds that people around them couldn’t detect, which then developed into headaches, hearing loss, vertigo, and even brain damage. New cases began to appear in embassies all around […]
The Magic Moment: A Conversation with Joe Pardavila – Part 2
“Do you know what I think makes a compelling podcast? It’s a podcast that doesn’t sound like a podcast. And I know that’s a really goofy answer, but if it sounds like two people talking or three people talking and they’re having this conversation, that there’s a genuine back and forth of information, that’s what […]
The Magic Moment: A Conversation with Joe Pardavila – Part 1
“You have to create this environment that the person’s comfortable in, that’s a big part of it. And I don’t actually like to use the word interview, especially when I coach people or advise people who are starting podcasts. You don’t ever want to use the word ‘interview’ because interview implies question answer, question answer, […]
Podcasting Goes Private: An Interview with Nora Sudduth – Part 2
“When you hear that person on the other end, you can put yourself, as a prospective client, you put yourself in their shoes. You hear what their thought process was and you feel connected to that person, you understand exactly what their struggles are because I have the same concerns, I have the same hesitations, […]