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Perception of musical pitch varies across cultures – ScienceBlog.com
People who are accustomed to listening to Western music, which is based on a system of notes organized in octaves, can usually perceive the similarity between notes that are same but played in different registers — say, high C and … Continue reading
Lightning Scribbles Across the Sky in Dramatic Footage of Extreme Storms Around the U.S.
Arizona-based storm chaser and videographer Dustin Farrell just released “Transient 2”, the sequel to his 2017 film. For roughly three and a half minutes, the skies open up to reveal flashes of lightning and billowing clouds rolling across open plains. … Continue reading
How Yayoi Kusama’s Outdoor Pumpkin is Protected During Hurricanes – Spoon & Tamago
photo by spoon & tamago (2017) If you’ve ever visited Japan’s magical art island of Naoshima you’ll most certainly have visited one of its most iconic pieces of art: Yayoi Kusama’s yellow pumpkin that sits at the tip of an … Continue reading
Reasons for the seasons – Rebecca Kaplan
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/reasons-for… Why do some regions experience full-time heat while others are reckoning with frigid temperatures and snow? And why are the seasons reversed in the two hemispheres? Rebecca Kaplan explains how the shape of the Earth’s orbit … Continue reading
How language shapes the way we think | Lera Boroditsky
There are about 7,000 languages spoken around the world — and they all have different sounds, vocabularies and structures. But do they shape the way we think? Cognitive scientist Lera Boroditsky shares examples of language — from an Aboriginal community … Continue reading
Atsuko Yukawa Creates Homopolar Motor Sculptures Using Wire and a Battery – Spoon & Tomago
Japanese artist t Atsuko Yukawa runs a small studio called Trill where she primarily spends her time illustrating birds. But recently, in her spare time, she’s been experimenting with simple wire sculptures. At first sight they don’t seem like much, … Continue reading
Why you can’t take a good picture of a rainbow
There’s a mismatch between the sensitivity of colour pixels in a digital camera sensor and the sensitivity of colour sensing cells in the human eye. We don’t normally notice until we try to take a picture of the whole visible … Continue reading
Stop and Smell the Flowers: Dick van Duijn Captured a Squirrel’s Floral Delight
This summer, while traveling in Vienna, Dutch photographer Dick van Duijn captured an indelible moment of natural connection between a ground squirrel and a yellow flower. The photographer was in Vienna specifically to document ground squirrels. In an interview with … Continue reading
REWILD: A Short Film by Splash and Burn and ESCIF Chronicles Rainforest Restoration Efforts in Sumatra
To draw attention to the ecological devastation wrought by palm oil farming in Southeast Asia, the Splash and Burn project (previously) creates and documents large and small-scale art activations. The initiative’s most recent endeavor, titled REWILD and executed with Spanish artist … Continue reading
What If You Could See Every Wavelength Of The Electromagnetic Spectrum? | Answers With Joe
Visible light is only a small part of the electromagnetic spectrum, but some people see more of it than others. Let’s take a look at why.
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