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b'What\\u2019s the difference between a bird call and the sound of a pile driver?\\xa0Not much, when you\\u2019re close to the loudest bird ever.\\xa0Find out when it pays to be noisy and when noise can worsen your health.\\xa0Just about everyone eventually suffers some hearing loss, but that\\u2019s not merely aging.\\xa0It\\u2019s an ailment we inflict on ourselves.\\xa0Hear how a team in New York City has put sensors throughout the city to catalog noise sources, hoping to tame the tumult.\\nAnd can underwater speakers blasting the sounds of a healthy reef bring life back to dead patches of the Great Barrier Reef?\\nGuests:\\n\\n\\nMark Cartwright\\xa0\\u2013 Research Assistant Professor at New York University\\u2019s Department of Computer Science and Engineering\\n\\n\\nCharles Mydlarz\\xa0\\u2013 Research Assistant Professor at New York University\\u2019s Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP) and the Music and Audio Research Lab (MARL)\\n\\n\\nDavid Owen\\xa0\\u2013\\xa0Staff writer at\\xa0The New Yorker, and author of\\xa0Volume Control: Hearing in a Deafening World\\n\\n\\n\\n Jeff Podos\\xa0\\u2013 Professor in the Department of Biology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst\\n\\n\\n Steve Simpson\\xa0\\u2013 Professor of Marine Biology and Global Change, Exeter University, U.K.\\n\\n\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'