{"id":358,"date":"2015-10-13T15:42:37","date_gmt":"2015-10-13T23:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/?p=358"},"modified":"2015-10-13T15:43:01","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T23:43:01","slug":"october-cafe-scientifique-with-shawn-bullock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/2015\/10\/13\/october-cafe-scientifique-with-shawn-bullock\/","title":{"rendered":"October Caf\u00e9 Scientifique with Shawn Bullock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Caf\u00e9 Scientifiquers, our next caf\u00e9 will happen on\u00a0<strong>Tuesday October\u00a027th, 7:30pm at The Railway Club<\/strong>. Our speaker for the evening will be\u00a0<strong>Dr. Shawn Bullock<\/strong><span lang=\"EN-US\">.<\/span>\u00a0 The title of his\u00a0talk is:<\/p>\n<p><strong>The History of Noise: Perspectives from Physics and Engineering<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0word \u201cnoise\u201d is often synonymous with \u201cnuisance,\u201d which implies something to be avoided as much as possible. We label blaring sirens, the space between stations on the radio dial and the din of a busy street as \u201cnoise.\u201d Is noise simply a sound we don\u2019t like? We will consider the evolution of how scientists and\u00a0engineers have thought about noise,\u00a0beginning in the 19th-century and continuing to the present day. We will explore the idea of noise both as a social\u00a0construction and as a technological necessity. We\u2019ll also touch on critical\u00a0developments in the study of sound, the history of physics and engineering, and\u00a0the development of communications technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Caf\u00e9 Scientifiquers, our next caf\u00e9 will happen on\u00a0Tuesday October\u00a027th, 7:30pm at The Railway Club. Our speaker for the evening will be\u00a0Dr. Shawn Bullock.\u00a0 The title of his\u00a0talk is: The History of Noise: Perspectives from Physics and Engineering The\u00a0word \u201cnoise\u201d is often synonymous with \u201cnuisance,\u201d which implies something to be avoided as much as possible. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13587,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13587"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":360,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions\/360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}