Sound Effect is your weekly tour of ideas, inspired by the place we live. The show is hosted by KNKX's Gabriel Spitzer. Each week's show explores a different theme, and this week, we shed some light on things that happen after dark.
Sound Effect Senior Producer, Arwen Nicks learns about the world of after hours public defenders and what it means for them to be on call.
For some what comes after the sun sets is fear. Where does the fear of the dark come from? Gabriel Spitzer sits down with Gordon Orian, author of Snakes, Sunrises and Shakspeare to discuss evolutionary biology and genetic ghosts.
Ever wonder what your life would be like if there was no access to artificial light? Scientists have too! And UW psychology professor Horacio de la Iglesia studied a group of people in the Gran Chaco region of South America that live without modern technology and artificial light.
The City of Seattle spends around a million dollars a year cleaning up grafitti and Brie Ripley went out to talk with two of the people that spend their days painting over the street art and graffiti that goes up in the dark of night.
