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Listen: The Music of a Human Brain
Researchers have turned human mental activity into music, and it sounds uncannily like free-form jazz piano. The new brain-to-sound method translates a brain's electrical fluctuations to pitch and blood flows to intensity. With more sophisticated scores and trained ears, a...
Audio Time Machine: Aldo Leopold’s Birds, Circa 1940
Close your eyes, open your ears and hear the sounds that greeted famed naturalist Aldo Leopold on a June morning in 1940. Using his fastidious notes and contemporary birdsong recordings, researchers have recreated a dawn soundscape heard by Leopold outside the rural Wisconsin shack where he wrote A Sand County Almanc, a bible of modern environmentalism.
Storyboard: The Strange Science and Shocking Horror of Rabies
You’ve heard the tales: A bite from a vicious monster transforms you into something less than human, leaving you just enough consciousness to contemplate your terrible fate as you slowly and agonizingly die. This scene is at the root of many of our most popular horror tropes — think vampires, werewolves and zombies — but [...]
Kill Whitey. It’s the Right Thing to Do (Repost)
A couple years ago, David Pizarro, a young research psychologist at Cornell, brewed up a devious variation on the classic trolley problem. The trolley problem is that staple of moral psychology studies at dinner parties in which you ask someone to decide under what conditions it’s morally permissible to kill one person to save others. [...]
Small Furry Hyrax Sings in Regional Dialects
The foundations of complex language have been found in colonies of unusual furry animals called hyraxes.
Dawn Chorus, Primeval Forest and Jaguars at Night: Listen to Nature’s Orchestra
For three decades, Bernie Krause has collected the sounds of nature, from Amazon jungles to Antarctic glaciers and even ant colonies. For Krause, the sounds aren't ambience, but biological orchestras of extraordinary beauty and complexity. In this gallery, you can hear some of his favorite recordings.
Tuesday Sprog Blogging: #scio12 storytelling and critters not imagined by my offspring.
So, Friday was busy here. Spring semester classes started on Wednesday, people want add codes to add my courses, students are making sure they know where everything is in the online section of my "Ethics in Science" course -- the usual. But, I was also dealing with a larger than usual portion of ScienceOnline in [...]
Underwater Noise Disturbs Whales 120 Miles Away
Underwater acoustics can affect the communication of whales as far away as 120 miles.
Audio: Stephen Hawking’s Best Quotes
It would be hard to find a geek who doesn't recognize the world-famous theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, who turns 70 today.
Science + Storytelling + Good (Food & Drink) = The Monti at ScienceOnline2012 Banquet
Originally posted by Karyn Traphagen at the official ScienceOnline2012 blog Now, that’s an equation for an awesome evening. Do you love to hear a good story? Love to tell a good story? Folks, have we got a night for you. On Fri., Jan. 20, 2012, during the ScienceOnline2012 banquet you will be treated to a [...]
Clever Test Shows Meerkat Voices Are Personal
By using audio trickery to present meerkats with a puzzling situation, biologists have demonstrated that the adorable African critters recognize each other by voice. The implications go beyond meerkats: It's been suprisingly difficult to design empirical studies for truly wild animals other than primates, leaving an important aspect of animal social life in shadow.
Listen: Hemingway’s Short, Moving Nobel Prize Speech
Yesterday, a few hours after the Nobel Prize for Literature has been awarded to Tomas Transtromer, I received from former Nobel staffer Simon Frantz an audio clip that seized my heart. It is a 1954 recording of Ernest Hemingway reading his acceptance speech for the prize that year. (Hemingway did not attend the banquet, but had [...]
Musical Moods - The Results
BBC R&D, Salford University and the British Science Association (BSA) launched Musical Moods in March 2011 during the BSA‘s National Science and Engineering Week. As of July 2011 over 15,000 people had taken part and had listened to over 56,000 theme tunes. Show More Summary
Audio Excerpt: The Secret Lives of The Brain
Find out what your brain is up to behind your back in this exclusive audio excerpt from the new book Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain and learn more in an interview with author, neuroscientist David Eagleman.
Listen: The Humpback Whale Songs That Swept the Pacific
In a stunning example of animal communication and culture, researchers have described how humpback whale songs sweep across the Pacific in just a few years.
“The level and rate of change is unparalleled in any other nonhuman animal and thus involves culturally driven change at a vast scale,” wrote researchers led by University of Queensland [...]
3,000-Year-Old Conch Trumpets Play Again
Now you can hear a marine-inspired melody from before the time of the Little Mermaid’s hot crustacean band. Acoustic scientists put their lips to ancient conch shells to figure out how humans used these trumpets 3,000 years ago. The well-preserved, ornately decorated shells found at a pre-Inca religious site in Peru [...]
