August 19th, 2001
Mayor La Guardia to the City of New York: It's summertime; the windows are open. Keep it down out there. The Next Big Thing this week is noise -- the hum of the city that's more than a hum. It's the noises inside our heads; it's the sound a man makes when he's harried. We've got nice sounds too, like the ones coming from Yomo Toro's cuatro. All that, plus we'll be checking out some anatomy, on The Next Big Thing.
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ABC News Correspondent Robert Krulwich
Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich
Nobel Prize-winning chemist Kary Mullis, author of "Dancing Naked in the Mind Field."
The hum, the buzz, the honk
Noise. It's everywhere and there's more of it and we're going deaf and will you keep it down already? Next Big Thing Producer Curtis Fox on the right to make noise and the pleasures of peace and quiet in New York City.
Mayor to New York: Keep it down out there
It's a quality-of-life issue from the 1940s. Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, from the WNYC Municipal Archives.
A Walk in the Park
Clinking and shuffling through pleasant noise. A sound portrait of dominoes and mahjong in Chinatown's Columbus Park. Produced by Jad Abumrad.
Gray Matter
If noise could kill brain cells -- these guys would probably survive. Improv with Mark O'Donnell and Scott Prendergast.
Gross Anatomy
How gross is it really? Former first-years from Cornell's Weill Medical College Rajiv Gupta, Michael Stern and Carrie Zinamen fill in our host. They first filled in Maryl Levin, who took photographs for her book, "Anatomy of Anatomy." Produced by Emily Botein.
The Jimi Hendrix of the cuatro
Musician Yomo Toro, originally from Puerto Rico and now from the Bronx, visits us with his cuatro. So what's a cuatro? Listen and find out.
More about Yomo Toro
La Musica
Salsaweb
The Hairy Call
Writer Jonathan Ames tells the story of childhood friends who communicate through a sound he describes as "going hairy."
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