The piece is portraing the types of sounds that can be detected with an atomic force microscope. This represents a fascinating new application to microscopy, and something that one might have origianlly thought too esoteric for most science labs. When I interviewed for graduate schools I was asked by a professor at Penn what a cell sounds like. Esoteric. But ever since I have been dying to know what cells sound like and the microscopic level. As a yeast microscopist, I have always wanted to know how loud the "Click" is when a cell divides in two woth a violent splitting of the two cells. Now the technologie is availble. However this radio piece is overly complexed with different audio noise that there is essentially little to be learned. Essentially a scientific journalistic attempt is overpopulated by cliche sounds and techno tracks that there is little left of the original scientific interest. In fact a casual listener would certainly be lost in the breadth of sound bytes presented. To move this piece to the radio cut heavily and tighten the air-time to the scientific interest to have a compelling story.
Review of The Singing Yeast Cell
Dale Beach
Posted on August 09, 2004 at 06:40 PM
The piece is portraing the types of sounds that can be detected with an atomic force microscope. This represents a fascinating new application to microscopy, and something that one might have origianlly thought too esoteric for most science labs. When I interviewed for graduate schools I was asked by a professor at Penn what a cell sounds like. Esoteric. But ever since I have been dying to know what cells sound like and the microscopic level. As a yeast microscopist, I have always wanted to know how loud the "Click" is when a cell divides in two woth a violent splitting of the two cells. Now the technologie is availble. However this radio piece is overly complexed with different audio noise that there is essentially little to be learned. Essentially a scientific journalistic attempt is overpopulated by cliche sounds and techno tracks that there is little left of the original scientific interest. In fact a casual listener would certainly be lost in the breadth of sound bytes presented. To move this piece to the radio cut heavily and tighten the air-time to the scientific interest to have a compelling story.