Resonance
This Musician Makes Songs From Outer Space Data
Matt Russo, a musician and lecturer at the University of Toronto, converts astronomical data into musical compositions on his website, SYSTEM Sounds.
An Ode to That Simpsons Vine
A true and lasting joy. A landmark of a generation. A six second video from a now-decaying social media platform.
Engineers Devise a Way to Harvest Wind Energy from Trees
It's not much power, but it may be enough to matter.
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The Strangest, Most Spectacular Bridge Collapse (And How We Got It Wrong)
How a textbook example of an engineering failure—and the famous video that captured it—got twisted.
The Finest Violins May Have 'Evolved' by Mistake
The results of a seven-year MIT study on the power-efficiency of violins.
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When Resonance Attacks
On July 5th, a 39-story office/shopping center building in Seoul, South Korea started to shake rapidly. For ten minutes vertical tremors violently rocked the building, causing an immediate evacuation of the premises. After the shaking subsided...
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