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International Exposition of Electricity – Wikipedia
Thursday, November 7th, 2019Jacob Bjerknes – Wikipedia
Thursday, November 7th, 2019HTT gene – Genetics Home Reference – NIH
Monday, November 4th, 2019An Online Voice Recorder? We Just Dropped the Mic 😎
Sunday, November 3rd, 2019https://www.rev.com/onlinevoicerecorder
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Straight Outta Your Browser
the Rev Online Voice Recorder!
…this brand-new tool allows you to record audio straight from your desktop or mobile device. No plug-ins or Flash needed. No
complications. Just push Record. Then, DOWNLOAD it: Click the aptly named “Download” button and a MP3 of your recording will start downloading!
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Why Is the World So Loud? – The Atlantic
Sunday, November 3rd, 2019QT:{{”
“Stéphane Pigeon, an audio-processing engineer based in Brussels, has become the Taylor Swift of white noise, traveling the world recording relaxing soundscapes for his website, myNoise.net, which offers its more than 15,000 daily listeners an encyclopedic compendium of noise-masking tracks that range from “Distant Thunder” to
“Laundromat,” a listener request. (White noise, technically speaking, contains all audible frequencies in equal proportion. In the natural world, falling rain comes close to approximating this pan-frequency shhhhhh.) Impulse noises, such as honking, barking, hammering, and snoring, are the hardest to mask, but Pigeon has tried: While traveling in the Sahara, he recorded “Berber Tent,” a myNoise hit designed to help snorees by harmonizing the gentle whoosh of wind, the burble of boiling water, and the low rattle of snoring.
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Farther north on Flatbush Avenue, encircled by lowing horns and a wheezing Mister Softee truck, Kanuri used his sound-meter app to measure the ambient noise—a disappointing 75.9 decibels, lower than everyone had thought but still more than 20 decibels above the threshold at which, per a 1974 EPA report, we get distracted or annoyed by sound. (Decibels, which measure volume, are logarithmic: Turn up a sound by 10 decibels, and most people will perceive its loudness as having doubled.)
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Desperate ears call for desperate measures, and the noise-afflicted go to elaborate lengths to lower the volume. Kanuri taught himself to code so he could analyze New York City’s 311 data and correlate noise complaints with elective districts; he hoped he could hold politicians accountable. … A Wisconsin man who’d re-insulated, re-drywalled, and re-windowed his home was ultimately offered sleeping medication and antidepressants. An apartment dweller in Beijing, fed up with the calisthenics of the kids upstairs, got revenge by attaching a vibrating motor to his ceiling that rattled the family’s floor. The gadget is available for purchase online, where you can also find Coat of Silence paint, AlphaSorb Bass Traps, the Noise Eater Isolation Foot, the Sound Soother Headband, and the Sonic Nausea Electronic Disruption Device, which promises, irresistibly, “inventive payback.”” “}}
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/11/the-end-of-silence/598366/
To do
Saturday, November 2nd, 2019Gulliver’s Gate is a technologically advanced, interactive and immersive world of miniatures covering 50,000 square feet that will ignite your imagination and challenge your perspective.
Mbbprimfac FW from Don Engelman: Moore’s short, informal history of biology at Yale
Wednesday, October 30th, 2019It is quite illuminating, and frames much of our current situation in an historical sequence that reveals the origins of some of the challenges that persist.