How we standardized music
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Hogging seats on a crowded train, not saying excuse me, watching videos on your phone with no headphones in. Sometimes it feels like we don't know how to act anymore. What we have been seeing, increasingly, is people breaking rules. Why should I play by the rules if nobody else is going to do that for me? This week on Explain It to Me, how to mind your manners.
New episodes Sundays wherever you get your podcasts. Hi, I'm Jorge Jast, editorial director of the Gray Area, and close personal friend of your host, Sean Illing. Sean sent me here with a mission to introduce you to another show that I work on, Unexplainable. It's a show about all the things we don't yet know, and about the people who are trying to figure it all out. Unexplainable and the gray area have a lot in common.
They both take open-hearted, open-minded approaches to new ideas, hard questions, and the mysteries of life. They just do it in different ways, but it's the same project, honestly. And the episode I'm about to play for you is a perfect example. It asks the question, what is a musical note? Seriously, in this case, the note A, the note that orchestras around the world tune to before they play.
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