Mission 2: Meet the engineers quietly fixing noise pollution| Listen on Anghami

Feb 2024

Mission 1: Is it time to stop buying and start repairing our tech?

INCOMING TRANSMISSION Agents - our intel team have discovered that in 2021 every person on Earth produced an average of 7.6 kg of e-waste (that’s 57 MILLION tons across the globe!) To see how responsible engineering can help fix our way to the future, we’ve sent Agent Clark to in ... Show More

37m 58s

Feb 2024

Mission 3: Decoding the internet of skills

INCOMING TRANSMISSION Agents - the bods in ‘D’ Branch believe the recent advances in networks, robotics, VR and haptics mean we could transcend our physical boundaries…so is it time we stopped talking about the internet of things and started talking about the internet of skills? ... Show More

37m 30s

Feb 2024

Mission 4: Working smart and living sustainably in the cities of the future

INCOMING TRANSMISSION Agents - according to our sources, over half the world’s population live in a city - a figure expected to reach 7 BILLION by 2050. What’s more, cities account for 80% of global GDP and over 70% of global CO2 emissions! To investigate how responsible engineer ... Show More

38m 36s

Nov 2024

Shhhh! It’s the sound and silence episode

Humans are noisy. The National Park Service estimates that all of our whirring, grinding, and revving machines are doubling or even tripling global noise pollution every 30 years. A lot of that noise is negatively affecting wildlife and human health. Maybe that’s why we’re so con ... Show More

33m 10s

Jul 2024

Silence and Sound

Humans are noisy. The National Park Service estimates that all of our whirring, grinding, and revving machines are doubling or even tripling global noise pollution every 30 years. A lot of that noise is negatively affecting wildlife and human health. In this guest episode, the te ... Show More

30m 37s

Mar 2025

LOUD: Is noise an invisible killer?

BBC health correspondent James Gallagher investigates how our noisy world is damaging our health. He finds out why noise increases our risk of health problems, like heart attacks, sleep problems and anxiety, and can even affect how long we live. James spends two days in Barcelona ... Show More

49m 29s

Jul 2023

Shhhhhh! It’s the sound and silence episode

Humans are noisy. The National Park Service estimates that all of our whirring, grinding, and revving machines are doubling or even tripling global noise pollution every 30 years. A lot of that noise is negatively affecting wildlife and human health. Maybe that’s why we’re so con ... Show More

33m 12s

Oct 2020

The Ghost in the Codec

At the dawn of the digital era, a group of engineers tasked with audio compression had to decide what information to keep, and what to leave behind. What was signal, and what was noise? Fast forward two decades, to our much noisier world. Hari finds a writer and a musician who’ve ... Show More

39m 17s

Sep 2015

EOC 037: Phantom Road Part Two – The Invisible Source of Habitat Degradation

Episode Summary: On today’s show we’re bringing noise pollution researchers Jesse Barber and Heidi Ware back into the studio to talk about their newly published scientific paper. This is the... Read more » The post EOC 037: Phantom Road Part Two – The Invisible Source of Habit ... Show More

29m 1s

Apr 2023

TechStuff Classic: Shh! How Soundproofing Works

Producer Noel Brown joins the show to talk about the science, theory and practice of soundproofing. How does sound work? How can you protect a room from sound?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

56m 14s

Jan 2024

Rescue Tech

Sonar and AI have been brought together in a hand-held device that can find humans underwater. We speak to its inventor and an underwater search team leader. Chris Vallance examines voice cloning and has a telephone conversation with artificial intelligence. Shiona McCallum repor ... Show More

27m 32s

Mission 2: Meet the engineers quietly fi...