Blah, blah, blah. Yadda, yadda, yadda. Yap, yap, yap. There’s a lot of blather out there in the verbalsphere – you know what I’m saying? So you need to be crafty in order to be heard. We’ll wax eloquent about those who succeed at getting their messages across… from a theory about how animals compete for bandwidth to the beautiful and sonorous language of whales.

Also, how to recognize a message from E.T. And, making the case for letting that library card lapse: the extinction of the written word.

Guests:

  • Bernie Krause – Bio-acoustics researcher and director of Wild Sanctuary
  • William Crossman – Author of VIVO: the Coming Age of Talking Computers and the director of the CompSpeak 2050 Institute for the Study of Talking Computers and Oral Cultures
  • Laurance Doyle – Astronomer at the SETI Institute

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Molly Bentley Executive Producer and Co-Host, Big Picture Science  

Seth Shostak Producer and Co-Host, Big Picture Science
Senior Astronomer, SETI Institute

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