You really don t want to hear about it she said with a sad voice.

She died because she heard people saying things that hurt her.

There's really very little point in listening to music when it doesn't sound good to you.

I taped my aunt. I taped my aunt singing a song in Russian from the you know, could we have it for a second?

What is strange is that women hang on to divorce, regardless of what counsellors and good doers tell them.

for this people's heart has grown callous, their ears are dull of hearing, they have closed their eyes or else perhaps they might perceive with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and should turn again and I would heal them.'

For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.

For when My revelations were read out to you , you turned back on your heels and fled

My verses were recited to you , so you used to turn back on your heels .

My signs were recited to you , but upon your heels you withdrew ,

Surely My signs have been rehearsed unto you , and upon your heel ye were wont to draw back .

Indeed My Verses used to be recited to you , but you used to turn back on your heels ( denying them , and with hatred to listen to them ) .

My Verses were recited to you , but you turned back on your heels .

My Signs were rehearsed to you and you turned back on your heels and took to flight ,

My revelations were recited unto you , but ye used to turn back on your heels ,

Certainly My signs used to be recited to you , but you used to take to your heels ,

My verses were recited to you , but you turned upon your heels ,

My verses had already been recited to you , but you were turning back on your heels

Our revelations had certainly been recited to you , but you turned your backs to them

My communications were indeed recited to you , but you used to turn back on your heels ,

My revelations were recited to you , but you turned your backs

My Signs used to be rehearsed to you , but ye used to turn back on your heels

These are the sounds you would expect, but they are also the sounds of dissonant concerts of a flock of birds screeching in the night, the high pitched honest cries of children and the thunderous, unbearable silence.

You don't do book talks at TED, but I'm going to have just one slide about my book, because there is one message in it which I think this group really needs to hear.

Now after I play back these humpback calls, I'll play blue whale calls, but they have to be sped up because they're so low in frequency that you wouldn't be able to hear it otherwise.

Later that year, after hearing a talk about the success of a school for mothers in London, she and Harriet Stirling (the daughter of Edward Stirling) founded the School for Mothers in Adelaide.

You might hear it like second hand smoke at the airport, but and maybe a little bit of a march from Aida when you come into the hall. But otherwise, you never hear it.

Wind, water, birds stochastic natural sounds composed of lots of individual random events, all of it very healthy, all of it sound that we evolved to over the years.

Perceived wisdom is that if people are informed of the source of a message before hearing it, there is less likelihood of a sleeper effect than if they are told a message and then told its source.

In this regard, the Top Ten Stories the World Should Hear More About initiative, launched by the Under Secretary General for Communications and Public Information on World Press Freedom Day 2004, was a useful tool that should be continued and strengthened.

As for the reactions of the relatively apolitical Minsk residents, Kartina Mira ( Picture of the World ) blog, run by a Belarus based Russian citizen, has this sketch (RUS), featuring a conversation overheard at one of the city's hairdressing salons

And after a few moments, her therapist tries a new tack, and they start singing together, and Gabby starts to sing through her tears, and you can hear her clearly able to enunciate the words to a song that describe the way she feels, and she sings, in one descending scale, she sings, Let it shine, let it shine, let it shine.

What we'd like to do is start understanding the interaction between these patterns and the language that my son is exposed to to see if we can predict how the structure of when words are heard affects when they're learned so in other words, the relationship between words and what they're about in the world.