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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, musicians, and industry leaders. All of them will change the way you hear..]]></itunes:summary><image><url>https://artwork.captivate.fm/01e511af-db9b-468b-b80e-34e225aa4d20/EAR-POD.jpg</url><title>Open Your Ears</title><link><![CDATA[https://substack.com/@scottsimonelli]]></link></image><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/01e511af-db9b-468b-b80e-34e225aa4d20/EAR-POD.jpg"/><itunes:owner><itunes:name>Scott Simonelli</itunes:name></itunes:owner><itunes:author>Scott Simonelli</itunes:author><description>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&apos;ve been paying for it ever since. Some episodes are narrative. Some are conversations with scientists, musicians, and industry leaders. All of them will change the way you hear..</description><link>https://substack.com/@scottsimonelli</link><atom:link href="https://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com" rel="hub"/><itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[The science, history, and human stakes of sound.]]></itunes:subtitle><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:type>episodic</itunes:type><itunes:category text="Arts"><itunes:category text="Books"/></itunes:category><itunes:category text="Education"><itunes:category text="Self-Improvement"/></itunes:category><itunes:category text="Science"><itunes:category text="Life Sciences"/></itunes:category><podcast:locked>no</podcast:locked><podcast:medium>podcast</podcast:medium><item><title>The Sound That Saved Us</title><itunes:title>The Sound That Saved Us</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p><em>Prologue from the forthcoming book</em> Open Your Ears: Blind Curve Ahead <em>by Scott Simonell</em></p><p><em>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</em> Open Your Ears: Blind Curve Ahead, <em>a book about why humans built a visual civilization on top of an auditory nervous system, and what we've been missing ever since.</em></p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Prologue from the forthcoming book</em> Open Your Ears: Blind Curve Ahead <em>by Scott Simonell</em></p><p><em>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</em> Open Your Ears: Blind Curve Ahead, <em>a book about why humans built a visual civilization on top of an auditory nervous system, and what we've been missing ever since.</em></p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://substack.com/@scottsimonelli]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">03cc25e6-daab-46a9-bc99-c52c551917fb</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/01e511af-db9b-468b-b80e-34e225aa4d20/EAR-POD.jpg"/><pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2026 15:35:00 -0400</pubDate><enclosure url="https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/03cc25e6-daab-46a9-bc99-c52c551917fb.mp3" length="15926656" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>06:38</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:season>1</itunes:season><itunes:episode>1</itunes:episode><podcast:episode>1</podcast:episode><podcast:season>1</podcast:season></item></channel></rss>