“We used a hydrophone, an underwater microphone, and I camped by the glacier with a lot of equipment. And therefore I was able to watch actually the phone numbers coming into the phone from the UK to China and India and even Iraq.”

TED Radio Hour · How we experience time

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set up a live phone line using a hydrophone inside a melting glacier so people could call and hear the glacier melt in real time

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