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So much science-y goodness this past week! First up: I have a post at the newly launched Nautilus on the physics of the blues, focusing on the work of J. Murray Gibson. It’s all about the development of the “blue note” and how music, and our perception of musical notes, can shed light on the [...]
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Living in Los Angeles for the last six years, I’ve become quite familiar with the spread of wildfires, with a corresponding deepening respect for Nature’s power. Given the devastation an out-of-control wildfire can cause, it’s not surprising that there’s been quite a bit of research into modeling the specifics of how forest fires spread over [...]
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Many viewers who tuned into American Idol on April 4th expected the dismissal of Lazaro Arbos, a likeable young man with an endearing stutter but marginal talent and an unfortunate tendency to forget lyrics. They were stunned when Burnell Taylor was eliminated instead. Arbos inexplicably wound up in the top three of the remaining contestants, [...]
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It was a busy week! I hosted an hour-long discussion with Maria Konnikova, my SciAm bloggy sibling and author of Mastermind: How To Think Like Sherlock Holmes, in Second Life as part of Virtually Speaking Science. (If you missed it, I hosted astrophysicist Janna Levin back in April.) I also chatted with the folks at [...]
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This week saw the launch of a new science-and-culture magazine, Nautilus, with both print and online versions. I’ll be contributing regular blog posts to the site. First up: the psychological necessity of storytelling. To find out more, Matt Shipman talked to digital editor Amos Zeeburg. We’ve Got Data. A bunch of high school physics students [...]
