Hearing
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The Sound So Loud That It Circled the Earth Four Times
The 1883 eruption on Krakatoa may be the loudest noise the Earth has ever made. -
The Unusual Language That Linguists Thought Couldn’t Exist
In most languages, sounds can be re-arranged into any number of combinations. Not so in Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language.Brian Goodman via Shutterstock Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . Languages, like human bodies, come in a variety of shapes—but only to a point. Just as people don’t sprout multiple heads, […] -
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, […] -
44 Years of Debating the First Words Ever Spoken on the Moon
It’s amazing that we aren’t uncertain about words more often. -
Why Pianos, and Monkeys, Can Never Really Play the Blues
One of the last things you’d expect to see at a physics conference is a physicist on stage, in a dapper hat, pounding out a few riffs of the blues on a keyboard. But that’s exactly what University of Illinois professor J. Murray Gibson did at the recent March meeting of the American Physical Society […]