Sight is arguably our most important sense, accounting for the vast majority of information we take in from the world around us, but as nature’s echo-location has proven, sound can reveal much more than meets the eye. On this month’s show, we learn about the high-tech companies using sound in places too dark, dense or dangerous for us to see. This information has a whole range of safety applications in the energy and transport industries, as well as helping oil companies in the search for the black stuff.
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Heat over Arctic: ‘Oil & gas may fuel militarization of the region’
As world powers team up to secure the ecology in the Arctic, the rivalry over its rich oil and gas resources is heating up. Michel Chossudovsky from the Center for Research on Globalisation explains that the battle for the North Pole is high on the global military agenda. READ MORE: http://on.rt.com/mmwv92
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