Polyphonic singing is easier to understand by seeing
Throat-singing allows a singer to produce multiple tones at once, including harmonics and overtones. It can be baffling to hear, but when you see it visualized, it makes a lot more sense.
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The revolution will be self-driven
More complicated car tech could mean the return of auto manufacturing to the United States The opening of Tesla’s Gigafactory in Nevada signals the United States’ contention with the Asian companies that have dominated the battery cell market. The shift towards higher-tech manufacturing is already driving automakers like
January 4, 2017
1. Ford cancels a $1.6 billion plant in Mexico and gives credit/thanks to Trump. (Not much discussed: The cars that would’ve been built in the new plant will be built now in an existing Mexico plant.) Trump’s tweets also “nailed the coffin” on the House GOP’
Surreal worlds in snowglobes
A look inside the special snowglobes made by Walter Martin and Paloma Muñoz, where something often goes wrong.
It’s 2017. Women are better than men at most things. Get over it.
“Let’s get her some sex.” Many of today’s progressives are too young to remember the Mary Tyler Moore Show, which brought feminism, sex positivity, homosexuality, birth control, and pay equality to the small screen like never before. ↩︎ New York Times, posted Jan. 26, 2017 A film about women
The crazy, wild train surfers of Mumbai
The crazy, wild train surfers of Mumbai. Insane. From the filmmaker: “All around world, the exact same human dynamics are happening but under very different social circumstances. Whether in the rugged outskirts of Mumbai, these kids are in many ways behaving in the same way that New York kids would.
Time-lapse video of smog rolling into Beijing
Time-lapse video of smog rolling into Beijing within the span of 20 minutes. The Chinese government today issued its first-ever national red alert for fog, saying visibility would be as low as 160 feet.
And so begins a term of dirty tricks: a brief history
House Republicans (unethically?) vote to prohibit ethics investigators from communicating with the public As you may have heard, House Republicans voted in a secret ballot Monday night to severely restrict the investigative powers and independence of the Office of Congressional Ethics, a semi-independent non-partisan government agency tasked with
January 3, 2017
A hijabi beauty contestant in Minnesota. A bipolar woman who founded Kenya’s first mental health hotline. A female police chief in Cyprus fighting human trafficking. Women all around the world are changing it every day. Meet seven of them. / NPR “My commitment to the public and my commitment to
The Top Albums of 2016
The best music from 2016 meant more than usual this year.