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Tabletop science…
source: RSC Two bulletins… First, from New Scientist: An electromagnetic “black hole” that sucks in surrounding light has been built for the first time. The device, which works at microwave...
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From wailin’ to Waylon…
15 July 1972, Billerica, MA — Don Stover was a bluegrass banjo picker from White Oak, West Virginia. In 1952 he joined the Lilly Brothers from nearby Beckley, and headed for Boston, where they played...
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“Slow but steady wins the race”*…
Slow TV comes to the U.S… TV viewers in Duluth, Minnesota had the opportunity to witness a record-setting premiere last Staurday: the world’s first thirteen-hour-long commercial– an ad for the the...
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“Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not”*…
From the moment Elvis Presley landed, we wanted every piece of him. This turned his old records into vinyl and shellac gold. While the value of discs by other popular mid-century artists such as...
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“A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best...
Walter, later Wendy, Carlos was a pioneer of electronic music, a collaborator with Robert Moog in developing the Moog Synthesizer that changed music forever (among other things, she convinced Moog to...
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“The sound must seem an echo to the sense”*…
As devices once common fall out of use, we stop hearing the sounds that they made… “Conserve the sound” is an online archive for disappearing sounds. The sounds of a rotary dial phone, a Walkman, an...
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