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The Sounds of Our Sun: Early this March, our sun erupted with the strongest solar storms in eight years.
The Sounds of Our Sun: Early this March, our sun erupted with the strongest solar storms in eight years. For the first time, the frenzy of charged particles unleashed can be heard through a process of sonification, not unlike the way a Geiger counter clicks when it detects radiation. But these sounds are unlike anything you’ve heard before: a million shards of glass? The terrifying roar of a caged beast?
If you enjoyed the sights and sounds from NASA’s shuttle booster rocket, you will love this! Robert Alexander, a doctoral student at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor created this to bridge between science and art, in anticipation as the sun ramps up toward the peak of its current solar weather cycle in 2013.
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Jane Goodall: Chimpanzees still need our help desperately.
Jane Goodall: Chimpanzees still need our help desperately. There are less than 300,000 chimps left, spread thinly over 21 African nations. Their numbers have been plummeting now that hunters can gain ready access into the bush using logging roads. We lose 10 hectares of forest per minute on this planet. Goodall says that the most effective way to save the chimps is to save the forests.
Source: http://tinyurl.com/7e26ccl
#threatenedthursday in support of conservation and the new themed page curated by Sumit Sen et al.
Mathematics and Art: Living in the Overlap.
Mathematics and Art: Living in the Overlap. Continuing our series on Science and Art , here are some superb examples of Fractal Art, which uses self-similar mathematical transforms of different assigned geometric properties to produce multiple variations of the shape in continually reducing patterns.
Many Thanks to +J Huntemann for the find! You can create similar images with Apophysis –a freeware Windows application (http://apophysis.org/).
For more, see: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/10/17/50-phenomenal-fractal-art-pictures/
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madame scientist's not-so-mad musings 