14 Comments on How do cicadas make sounds / noise Some people hear a cicada sing, and hear a beautiful song, while others hear an irritating noise. But how do they create the sounds? The ridged organ in this photo is a tymbal, the organ male cicadas use to create their songs. Cicadas...
(2014) identified two studies on invertebrates and noise that found: 1) positive correlations between noise levels and both call frequency and chorusing in the cicada Cryptotympana takasagona in urban parks, and 2) a greater low-frequency component in the songs of male grasshoppers (Chorthippus...
But in the Papua New Guinea highlands, witches don’t bother with the faff of transmogrification. They can, I mean, if they want. They might become a quick, highly mobile creatures: bat, rat, bird, moth, grasshopper, butterfly, cicada… or they might simply become invisible. Odilon Redon...
a cicada’s voice 一Matsuo Bashō The opening word, stillness, sets the tone of the scene. This is reinforced by an image of rocks in which a cicada's voice suddenly appears and disappears. In just a few words the poet depicts the tension between silence and noise, tranquility and chaos...
“Carrying a heavy tripod around the woods while looking for tiny bugs and insects does not sound fun, and even if it wasn’t that bad, it takes a lot of time to set up, which goes against my goal of creating as many photography opportunities with as many subjects as I can in the ...
Incandescent light bulb longevity and how to make it last longer General Electric Company was the first to patent a method of making tungsten filaments for use in incandescent light bulbs back in 1906, and the method hasn’t changed a great deal during that time. Although they do have the ...
People spend a lot of time trying to guess when the trend will change. They react to the first green candle in a downtrend or the first red candle in an up trend. They keep guessing. Ed does not guess. He follows the trend as far as it will go and then he ...
On the drive home we stopped in to buy oysters from a row of sheds on the foreshores of Pambula Lake. The sun was out that day, and the waters were still and blue, and the surrounding bush rang with cicada song. But when I look back at the photographs I took that day I am most...
George Saunders put it this way: “You can choose what you write but you can’t choose what you make live.” How does this necessary humility of the writer translate to the work of an editor? I don’t exactly know, but it is to do with this same particular surrender, an ...
“Carrying a heavy tripod around the woods while looking for tiny bugs and insects does not sound fun, and even if it wasn’t that bad, it takes a lot of time to set up, which goes against my goal of creating as many photography opportunities with as many subjects as I can in the ...