Ever wondered if Humpback Whales like Clarinet music?

Thankfully Dr David Rothenberg of the New Jersey Institute of Technology may have found the answer to that question in his paper To Wail With a Whale: Anatomy of an Interspecies Duet.

"Why?" you may ask, and thankfully the author tells us...

Having spent several years playing my clarinet to ( Read more... )

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I've been told I should witter more. Not being one to turn down an opportunity to make people regret saying things like that to me, I shall ramble on some more...

So, the solar system is kind of big. 30,000,000 pixels to be precise.

...or at least it is when represented by French artist licoti, a tour of whose fairly amazing artwork is shown in ( Read more... )

...but then I remember I don't have a boat handy.

A necessity, according to the Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI), who calculate that if you slowly reduced the spin of the world to stationary removing the centrifugal force acting on the oceans, the world could look something more like this:


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The geek group have big balls and this is what they do with them:


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I've already shared this on twitter, but it's so cool I'm going to share it here too.

richardwiseman is carrying out an experiment on psychic abilities using twitter. Basically, he's going to go to a random location and send a tweet at around 3pm and then we've all got to guess where he is sometime in the next half hour.

Follow @ richardwiseman to have a go ( Read more... )

Dana Centre plans for this month:

9 June - Move Me On - Curious idea getting a scientist and choreographer to work together. I'm fascinated to know what the result is and what they say about the reasoning behind it.
11 June - Season of Life - Seasons certainly seem to effect our general feelings,etc, but other than the obvious I don't know a lot ( Read more... )

A while back, I posted about the latest exhibition at the Horniman Museum. I finally got around to going to see it yesterday.

The Robot Zoo is a fun way of showing how animals bodies function mechanically and includes things like how grasshoppers jump, how the blood flow in the neck of a giraffe is controlled and how bats use echo location. It's ( Read more... )

This evening I went to a talk about how the internet and computer games may be affecting how young people thing and the general consensus seemed to be, in spite of all the media hype, there's not enough evidence to come to any firm conclusions ( Read more... )