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Get your NOVA ringtone!

Once upon a time, in those quaint, curious days between the Stone Age and the iPad Age, a telephone was a beige, boxy thing with a dial on the front and a bell inside.

Today, dials have given way to touchpads and rings have been ousted by ringtones. But I don't want to get all nostalgic. After all, your old phone couldn't ring the NOVA theme song, could it? I didn't think so! Now, at long last, your cell phone can ring with the sweet sounds of NOVA.

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You can right-click and download the NOVA theme (doo doo doo DEE doo doooo...doo!) as an mp3 and convert and upload it to your cell phone. (You're on your own there--here are a couple of how-tos.)

Being from the old beige-box generation, I was shocked to discover that ringtones are big business, estimated to bring in between half a billion and a billion dollars each year. (The total seems to be shrinking as consumers learn to make their own ringtones.)

But don't worry, the NOVA ringtone is totally free. So, give it a try, tell a friend, and let the NOVA love ring!

Click below to listen.




Image Courtesy Istvan Takacs and Wikimedia Commons

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Kate Becker

As a researcher for NOVA and NOVA scienceNOW, Kate Becker investigates everything from human hibernation to invisibility cloaks, but her real soft spot is for astronomy. She likes astronomy so much, she once wrote a whole master’s thesis on it! Now that that thesis business is finished up, Kate spends her time wringing all the good stuff out of Google, scouring the magazines and journals that appear in her mailbox, and haunting the science section of her local bookstore. Kate studied physics at Oberlin College and astronomy at Cornell University, and she’s had the good fortune to observe with the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico and the Very Large Array in New Mexico—two of the very best places on this pale blue dot of a planet, if you ask her. Kate is delighted to be a part of the NOVA team and thanks you for reading this blog. You can also follow Kate on Twitter and Facebook.

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