Bruce Walker, who runs the Sonification Lab at Georgia Tech University, notes another barrier to acceptance: “The tools have not been suitable to the ecosystems.” Auditory display makes no sense in a crowded office or a loud factory, for instance. At school, sound-based education tools are ...
The Books of Earthsea, collecting the short stories, novellas and novels, was published in 2018, with illustrations by Charles Vess, a new introduction by Le Guin as well as her “Earthsea Revisioned” Oxford lecture. If you prefer to have all your Earthsea stories in one place, we recommen...
self-replicating bacterial cell. but nothing so far has approached the ambitions of gp-write or hgp-write, which take their names from the original human genome project, the massive endeavor that sequenced the 3 billion pairs of letters making up a human genome at a cost of $2.7 billion...
but there’s also a whole galactic community just a relay’s jump away. Don’t ask how humansnever noticed the signs of that communitybefore discovering a cache of alien tech on Mars; it’s not important.
millions of deaths and injuries due to crashes, as well as elevated levels of particulate pollution and a strong incentive for citizens to sit down too much and self-propel around the city too little. once cars have taken over, humans become small, weak, scared, helpless, infantilized. the...
The Film Didn't Go Far Enough (or Went Too Far):Since the film was going to subvert our expectations, it should have gone further, by having Rey & Kylo join forces.Pull the band-aid off abruptly and let the past die completely.On the flipside, the Last Jedi should have honored the ...
another, the process will be relatively quick. However, if you're migrating a large library of high-resolution photos, videos, apps, and other files, it's natural for the transfer to take longer. The more data you have, the more time it will require to move from one device to...
even a clear sky isn't empty. our atmosphere is a massive fluid layer, and the right application of physics makes it possible for humans to traverse it. in this article, we'll walk through the basic principles of aviation and the various forces at work in any given flight. contents how...
the now-fossilized humans who couldn’t escape pompeii. all, though, have strange structures erupting out of their corpses. this is how ordinary ants become zombies. walking dead. pawns of an insidious and spectacularly clever fungus. adapted from plight of the living dead by matt simon. simon...
The universe is full of billions of galaxies—but their distribution across space is far from uniform. Why do we see so much structure in the universe today and how did it all form and grow? A 10-year survey of tens of thousands of galaxies made using the Magellan Baade Telescope at Car...