EPISODE · Oct 30, 2020 · 18 MIN
The Science of Scary Sounds - A SciShow Tangents Audio Adventure
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Monster Month bursts from the grave with one last shocking surprise! Enjoy this audio adventure through a haunted house, as Scary Ceri guides you through some of the spookiest sounds around! Be sure to wear your… deadphones! Ha ha ha ha ha!Follow us on Twitter @SciShowTangents, where we’ll tweet out topics for upcoming episodes and you can ask the science couch questions! While you're at it, check out the Tangents crew on Twitter: Stefan: @itsmestefanchin Ceri: @ceriley Sam: @slamschultz Hank: @hankgreenIf you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:[Definition]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3181681/https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00761/full[Natural Sounds]https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/out-the-ooze/201511/what-makes-house-feel-hauntedhttps://www.businessinsider.com/why-horror-films-scary-fear-neuroscience-psychology-2016-10https://www.quora.com/Why-is-the-wolf-howling-effect-used-in-horror-movieshttps://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/07/why-screams-are-so-scaryhttps://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2015/july/researchers-find-the-acoustic-signature-of-screams.htmlhttps://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(15)00737-X[Music]https://slate.com/culture/2012/06/in-scientific-studies-of-music-whats-missing-is-the-culture.htmlhttps://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsbl.2012.0374https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/07/the-jaws-theme-might-not-be-scary-for-tsimane-people/https://mcgovern.mit.edu/2020/06/16/universal-musical-harmony/https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-16448-6https://qz.com/quartzy/1429949/devils-interval-what-makes-music-sound-scary/[Extreme Highs & Lows]https://www.newscientist.com/article/2123018-the-feeling-you-get-when-nails-scratch-a-blackboard-has-a-name/https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00131/fullhttps://scienceline.org/2011/10/why-do-we-hate-the-sound-of-nails-on-a-chalkboard/http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Sound/infrasound.htmlhttp://www.nbcnews.com/id/3077192#.X2kUu5NKhxwhttp://www.richardwiseman.com/resources/ghost-in-machine.pdfhttps://web.archive.org/web/20110929142806/http://www.psy.herts.ac.uk/ghost/Something-in-the-Cellar.pdf[Butt One More Thing]https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11031-018-9673-7#Sec14https://www.livescience.com/62165-how-to-overcome-embarrassment-fart-study.html Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Monster Month bursts from the grave with one last shocking surprise! Enjoy this audio adventure through a haunted house, as Scary Ceri guides you through some of the spookiest sounds around! Be sure to wear your… deadphones! Ha ha ha ha ha!Follow us on Twitter @SciShowTangents, where we’ll tweet out topics for upcoming episodes and you can ask the science couch questions! While you're at it, check out the Tangents crew on Twitter: Stefan: @itsmestefanchin Ceri: @ceriley Sam: @slamschultz Hank: @hankgreenIf you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:[Definition]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3181681/https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00761/full[Natural Sounds]https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/out-the-ooze/201511/what-makes-house-feel-hauntedhttps://www.businessinsider.com/why-horror-films-scary-fear-neuroscience-psychology-2016-10https://www.quora.com/Why-is-the-wolf-howling-effect-used-in-horror-movieshttps://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/07/why-screams-are-so-scaryhttps://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2015/july/researchers-find-the-acoustic-signature-of-screams.htmlhttps://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(15)00737-X[Music]https://slate.com/culture/2012/06/in-scientific-studies-of-music-whats-missing-is-the-culture.htmlhttps://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsbl.2012.0374https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/07/the-jaws-theme-might-not-be-scary-for-tsimane-people/https://mcgovern.mit.edu/2020/06/16/universal-musical-harmony/https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-16448-6https://qz.com/quartzy/1429949/devils-interval-what-makes-music-sound-scary/[Extreme Highs & Lows]https://www.newscientist.com/article/2123018-the-feeling-you-get-when-nails-scratch-a-blackboard-has-a-name/https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00131/fullhttps://scienceline.org/2011/10/why-do-we-hate-the-sound-of-nails-on-a-chalkboard/http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Sound/infrasound.htmlhttp://www.nbcnews.com/id/3077192#.X2kUu5NKhxwhttp://www.richardwiseman.com/resources/ghost-in-machine.pdfhttps://web.archive.org/web/20110929142806/http://www.psy.herts.ac.uk/ghost/Something-in-the-Cellar.pdf[Butt One More Thing]https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11031-018-9673-7#Sec14https://www.livescience.com/62165-how-to-overcome-embarrassment-fart-study.html Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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