Scott Simonelli

Open Your Ears

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Open Your Ears is a podcast about the most underestimated sense we have. Hosted by Scott Simonelli -- composer, researcher, and founder of Veritonic -- each episode moves between science, history, and human experience to explore how sound shapes the way we think, feel, and move through the world. The show is a companion to the forthcoming book Open Your Ears: Blind Curve Ahead, which makes the case that humans built a visual civilization on top of an auditory nervous system -- and that we've been paying for it ever since. Some episodes are narrative. Some are conversations with scientists, mus...

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Scott Simonelli

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The Sound That Saved Us 29.03.2026 6:38

Prologue from the forthcoming book Open Your Ears: Blind Curve Ahead by Scott Simonell The night Scott Simonelli's family nearly died from carbon monoxide poisoning, no alarm went off. No light flashed. What saved them was a sound -- or rather, the wrong sound. This is the prologue to Open Your Ears: Blind Curve Ahead, a book about why humans built a visual civilization on top of an auditory nervo...