Secret Codes
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The Math Trick Behind MP3s, JPEGs, and Homer Simpson’s Face
This theoretical physicist’s idea has an astounding legacy.
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The Secret Costs of Keeping Secrets
Sarah Horrigan via Flickr Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . Keeping a secret can be hard work. It may seem relatively easy to avoid mentioning your friend’s surprise birthday party or your co-worker’s recent breakup, but concealing even trivial information, let alone important things, can be exhausting. When keeping […]
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Hearing Hadrons, and Doing Research by Ear
Animation of data from collisions at the LHCCERN Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . Several years ago, particle physicist Lily Asquith was hanging out with a few musician pals in London after a band rehearsal, doing impromptu impersonations of what she thought the various elementary particles might sound like, […]
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Taking the Pulse of the City With Graffiti Artist EKG
Though New Yorkers are currently chasing down the next piece of Banksy street art, graffiti typically blends into the background. If you’re not a tagger, you most likely are not paying attention to the coded messages embedded in the endless stream of stylized names, faces, animals, and jokes that are constantly thrown up then torn […]
