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| Profile Page for Matilda, the explosive-egg-dropping bird. Image Credit: National Geographic |
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Labels: books, education, Force and Motion, games, iphone, outreach, review, Rovio, space and The Universe, video games
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Labels: Chesapeake Bay, current, Fluid dynamics, Physics, swim, tide
This week on the Physics Central Podcast we're talking about the physics of vinyl records. How do records record sound, and why can't you make a record out of wood or ice or some other material? (A: You CAN! It just might not sound very good!).
One of my favorite bands, the Swedish-based Shout Out Louds, recently released a new album, featuring a song called "Blue Ice." The song is about "fading devotion." As part of their publicity efforts to promote the album, the band sent 10 lucky individuals a kit that allowed them to create a record of the new song out of ice. Here's a video showing how to make an ice record (you need a pre-stamped mold), and a recording of the final product (not great, but still awesome):
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| Luis Alvarez Image: Dutch National Archives |
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Last week, the Guardian published several articles revealing an extensive, intrusive monitoring program hosted by the National Security Administration. Apparently, the NSA has required cell service provider Verizon to hand over huge troves of data covering all of its customers — data including call times, call recipients, and the length of conversations.
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| Edward Snowden, NSA Whistle Blower. Image Credit: The Guardian |
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| Daenerys and her dragon. (Photo: HBO) |
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The cores of black holes may not hold points of infinite density as
currently thought, but portals to elsewhere in the universe, theoretical
physicists say.
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Artist's concept of a supermassive black hole
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| NOAA Photo Library, NOAA Central Library; OAR/ERL/National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL) |
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Labels: atmospheric physics, Harold Brooks, meteorology, Moore, NOAA, Oklahoma, severe storms, tornado, tornadoes, tornados
At 1:00pm on Tuesday, June 11, 2013.
20 Rockefeller Plaza, New York NY.
Basement Level.
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| 20 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY Image Credit: Brad Holt |
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