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Acoustic fire extinguishers
In 2004 Dmitriy Plaks and several of his fellow students at the University of West Georgia tested whether sound waves can douse fires in hopes of using sound to extinguish flames in a spacecraft. They placed a candle in a …
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Sukhumi: home of Stalin's super-ape
Stalin’s space monkeys It looks like a neglected zoo. But the Institute of Experimental Pathology and Therapy has its own macabre chapter in the history of the Soviet Union. Shaun Walker reports from Sukhumi, Abkhazia. Tuesday, 15 April 200, the …
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The Tone Generation on Resonance FM
Over 10 programmes, artist/musician Helliwell delves into his archive to look at the development of electronic music right across the world in the classic era of analogue technology. Starting in Europe and finishing up in the Southern Hemisphere, he will …
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Don Buchla interview
A lengthy and often fascinating interview with electronics genius Don Buchla, who in 1963 developed one of the first synthesiser systems on America’s west coast, just as Robert Moog was developing his own, soon to be more famous system on …
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Monkey talk
How do monkeys hear each other? Are there voices in their heads? Pascal Belin of the University of Glasgow discusses the implications of ‘A Voice Area in the Monkey Brain’: The use of vocalizations, such as grunts, songs or barks, …
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Rupert Sheldrake stabbed
Bizarre news from Santa Fe, New Mexico, where maverick British biologist Rupert Sheldrake narrowly avoided a potentially fatal attack while presenting at the 10th International Conference on Science and Consciousness. From the Santa Fe New Mexican Rupert Sheldrake of London …
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Black Ops Superstars
More on the US military’s multi-billion dollar ‘black ops’ world, from the New York Times, with comment from Trevor Paglen and Steven Aftergood: The classified budget of the Defense Department, concealed from the public in all but outline, has nearly …
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From squid to squawk
You’re looking at the beak of the fearsome Humboldt squid, Dosidicus gigas – up to 14 feet of cephalopodic bad attitude known for its attacks on human divers in the Pacific. This can chop its way through a fishy spinal …
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Time and Mind
SAJ pal and contributor Neil Mortimer, formerly editor of the mighty Third Stone magazine, and veteran author-researcher Paul Devereux have joined forces as editors of Time and Mind, a new ‘Journal of Archaeology, Consciousness and Culture’. As you would hope …
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Dissecting UN UFO rumours
For the past couple of weeks the Internet UFO community has been abuzz with rumours of a secret meeting held at the UN building in New York City in mid-February. The meeting, alleged to have been attended by representatives from …
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Disinformation vs Strange Attractor in Newcastle
That dynamic sonic duo SAVD will perform both National Grid – utilising live mains electricity and antique laboratory equipment – and Circuit Blasting – in which we attack cheap electronic keyboards with high voltage electrical devices – at Newcastle’s Centre …
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Audio illusions
As part of a music special, New Scientist has a great selection of audio illusions on its web site, including Diana Deutsch’s phantom words as featured in Joe Banks’ Rorschach Audio piece in the first volume of SAJ. Pictured here …
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