The Skeptics Guide #959 - Nov 25 2023 (Ad Free)
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My spouse is on chemo treatments and is immunocompromised (low neutrophil level). She wears a mask when in hospitals. Here in the UK, medical staff will either put on a mask or inquire if the patient wants them to wear a mask. We haven't ran into anyone that is disrespectful of a patient's right to consensual medical care.
Asymetra
2024-07-07 09:23:07 +0000 UTCEDIT: Sourced it to an incredibly cool project by this YouTube channel. Tyrannosaurus rex timestamped from this collection of other creations: https://youtu.be/kJd-jDMb0wU?t=1734 I can't speak to the veracity of the work but I adore the concept. I'll just let the channel's description of the project speak for itself: ------------------------------ "An ongoing study utilizing the most recent scientific data on dinosaur vocalizations. Sounds are produced by myself and digitally workshopped from modern non-syrinx based avian reptiles. Using skull and olfactory cavity proportions, one can attempt to recreate the flow of sound, frequency, and volume of each animal. Much study is required for each particular species, and often several phases are trashed due to general unlikelihood. The final results are based on acute representations of what sounds would be most comfortable and base-line for each animal. Video also includes other reptiles, even though they are much more difficult to produce accurately. Citations: Concepts: https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/nbbpar... https://www.thoughtco.com/how-loud-co... https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/... https://www.livescience.com/306-dinos... https://www.icr.org/article/tyrannosa... https://www.sciencefocus.com/nature/i... https://www.ndsu.edu/pubweb/~ashworth... https://carnegiemnh.org/what-did-dino... Proportions: https://www.dimensions.com/element/t-... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti... https://www.researchgate.net/figure/C... https://royalsocietypublishing.org/do... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physiol.... http://www2.ca.uky.edu/agcomm/pubs/AS... Aim: To be more sophisticated than Julia Clarke's rendition, which included: combining the booming call of the Eurasian bittern with the growling vocalizations of the Chinese crocodile, and then scaling it up to T-rex’s estimated size (about 12 meters or 40 feet long), what they got was a ominous low rumble." ------------------------------ Has anyone been able to track down a source for the reconstructed T-rex vocalizations? I wanted to read more about this but the only uploads and discourse I can find attached to the same audio clip mention it coming from a Sandia National Laboratories study and the only results I can find on the Sandia Labs site are for a study from '97 about Parasaurolophus where they were experimenting with their trombone-like crests based on a skull specimen.
Tony Jameson
2023-12-08 01:35:49 +0000 UTC
