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	Healing Sounds - Science of Harmonics
		The universe is alive with sound and within all sounds are harmonics.
		Sound is a vibrational energy which takes the form of waves.
		The first of these overtones to sound is vibrating twice as fast as that fundamental, at a ratio of two to one (2:1), at 512 cycles a second.
	healingsounds.com /articles/science-harmonics.asp (380 words)

	Auroral Sounds, Alaska Science Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		People who are used to listening to the sounds of the wilderness away from the noisy background of urban living are most likely to have heard aurorally associated sound usually described as a rustling or crackling noise.
		It is fairly certain that the sound cannot be generated within the aurora itself and propagated to the hearer.
		Also, it is possible that there are no sound waves as such, but that the sensation of sound is produced inside the hearer's head by physical or psychological processes.
	www.gi.alaska.edu /ScienceForum/ASF2/265.html (356 words)

	NPS: Nature & Science » Natural Sounds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Both natural and human sounds may be desirable and appropriate in a soundscape, depending on the purposes and values of the park.
		The number of pressure variations per second in the air or the number of peaks and troughs in the sound wave is called the frequency of the sound and is expressed in hertz (Hz).
		This height (or the distance between the peaks and troughs in the sound wave) is known as the amplitude and is measured in decibels (dB).
	www.nature.nps.gov /naturalsounds (983 words)

	Sounds, Sights of Science sought for project exploring where science and art meet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Materials Research Science and Engineering Center invites all Chicago students, faculty, staff, spouses and alumni to participate in the S3 Project: Sounds and Sights of Science, to provoke a dialogue between the arts and sciences.
		The S3 Project includes an art contest that encompasses recorded sounds and sound collages, along with films, videos and animation that were inspired by the center’s work and its work environment.
		The contest categories are Sounds of Science (recorded sounds and sound collages): short clips (no longer than 60 seconds), and longer pieces (no more than five minutes); and Sights of Science (film, video or animation, with or without soundtrack): short clips (no longer than 60 seconds) and longer pieces (no more than five minutes).
	chronicle.uchicago.edu /030501/sounds-sci.shtml (353 words)

	The Sounds of Science \| Ask MetaFilter
		The concept of "science" as technically skilled, precise rhyming is interesting; as science, mathematics, and higher education in general are typically deprecated for African-American youths (moreso than their white counterparts, or so studies have shown).
		As to roots, A quick google suggests that the term "drop science" is somehow related to The Temple of Moorish Science the early 20th century religious cult that was a forerunner of the Nation of Islam and the 5 percenters.
		For science positive hip-hop, my two favorites are Deltron 3030, a collaboration between Del the Funky Homosapien and Dan the Automator which has a cool science-fictiony feel, and Rip the Jacker by Canibus which name-checks Steven Jay Gould and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, among other scientific topics (lyrics).
	ask.metafilter.com /mefi/37471 (1889 words)

	Insight into Auroral Sounds?, Alaska Science Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Since the aurora is at high altitude where the air is too thin to effectively transmit sound waves to the ground, it is certain that no audible sound is produced by the aurora itself.
		The idea here is that one is so used to fast-moving objects also making sound that he or she assumes the fast-moving aurora makes a sound and thereby 'hears' a sound.
		One test of the signal mixing hypothesis suggested by Roederer is for observers of auroral sound to close their eyes to see if the sounds go away, a requirement of this hypothesis.
	www.gi.alaska.edu /ScienceForum/ASF3/357.html (328 words)

	Listening to Leonids
		Sound takes about five minutes to travel such a distance, while light can do it in a fraction of a millisecond.
		The sounds weren't rumbling sonic booms or the loud crack of a distant explosion arriving long after the meteor's flash had come and gone.
		The sound was definitely simultaneous with the observation of a rather large streak."
	science.nasa.gov /headlines/y2001/ast26nov_1.htm (1302 words)

	The Chronicle: 4/28/2006: The Sounds of Science
		It is designed to provide schoolchildren with vivid science lessons taught by young, enthusiastic experts; to provide graduate students with firsthand experience in communicating better with people from a wide range of backgrounds; and to emphasize to universities that outreach to local schools should be one of the normal functions of a science department.
		Thompson's own research, she records elephant sounds in hopes of finding an aural way to distinguish between male and female, young and old, so as to categorize the animals that live in dense forest.
		Outlined in blue rectangles are the marks of an elephant roaring and the sound of a flag's metal ring striking the school's flagpole.
	chronicle.com /temp/reprint.php?id=9446npw4qm1t5fptw9b0x7ytcvkswwl5 (1270 words)

	AssortedStuff » Blog Archive » Sounds Like Science But It’s Not
		Mooney shows how the phrase "sound science" originated with the tobacco industry who were denying the connection between the use of their products and numerous diseases.
		But "sound science" and "peer review" as adopted by W and friends has been so corrupted that the Union of Concerned Scientists, a peer-reviewed group that includes 20 Nobel laureates, released a statement this month that was scathing in it’s criticism of the misuse of science in policy making by this bunch.
		Remember that the population of this country is largely illiterate when it comes to understanding the principles of science and scientific research.
	www.assortedstuff.com /index.php?p=484 (585 words)

	Sounds Like Science - Drums
		Understanding how sound is produced makes it possible for us to manipulate it so we can decrease the number of unpleasant sounds created by things as diverse as airplanes and vacuum cleaners.
		Sound is caused by a movement or vibration created by force.
		The pitch of the sound (how high or low the sound is), depends on how fast an object vibrates.
	reachoutmichigan.org /funexperiments/agesubject/lessons/other/una4.html (618 words)

	How Sounds Are Made: Science of Sound in the Sea
		The following figure shows a basic cross-section of a sound source that uses an internal driver and pistons to vibrate the walls of the source.
		Sound is generated by the in-and-out motion of the surfaces at the frequency at which the pistons push in-and-out.
		To make sounds efficiently, the height or diameter of the sound source walls should be roughly the size of one wavelength of the sound that is being made.
	www.dosits.org /science/whatis/3.htm (411 words)

	The sounds of science -- ExperiMentors bring physics to life
		Andrea Kurtz '01 explains the nature of sound waves and the meaning of frequency to an audience of schoolchildren from Cambridge.
		Science Day brings the children to Harvard for a day of lessons and experiments.
		In keeping with this year’s theme, the Physics of Sound, the children learned how sound is generated, how the ear functions, and how it is constantly a part of everyday life.
	www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/2000/05.18/experimentors.html (239 words)

	sounds of science, The Teaching Pre K-8 - Find Articles
		However, if school architecture allows, this activity could drag on for upwards of three seconds when students drop their weighted strings from a second floor window or the top row of gymnasium bleachers.
		From a point nine feet high, students drop their strings on the floor and listen to the sound pattern.
		Strange as it sounds (pun intended), the unequally sped nuts make the equally spaced sounds, and vice versa.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3666/is_199602/ai_n8745548 (1026 words)

	Morning Edition - How a Cell Sounds
		This, in essence, was the question NPR Senior Science Editor Anne Gudenkauf asked several months ago during a meeting about NPR's coverage of the Human Genome Project.
		With some digital nips and tucks (and some muffled guffaws edited out), these sounds provided the cell background ambience, and the rain-like popping noises at the end of the piece, as the cell vessicle fills up with lactase.
		the studio myself to see what kinds of "traveling" sounds I could produce with a drinking straw; my ill-mannered slurps were digitally processed to produce the sounds of enzymes and messenger RNA migrating from one part of the cell to another.
	www.npr.org /programs/morning/features/2001/010212.cellsounds.html (1015 words)

	How Sounds Are Characterized: Science of Sound in the Sea
		Perhaps you thought of describing a sound with the words loud or soft; high-pitched or low-pitched.
		Because sound travels in a wave, we can relate the words that scientists use to describe sound to a picture of a wave.
		It is important to remember, though, that in a sound wave, the particles are moving back and forth as if they were being pushed and pulled.
	www.dosits.org /science/whatis/2.htm (379 words)

	Yo La Tengo
		The groupâs sound is instantly identifiable as its ownâ”a rarity these daysâ”and while Yo La Tengo has somehow avoided sounding âsameyâ over the course of its long career, it has managed to stay musically consistent, if not downright dependable, on its recordings.
		The Sounds of the Sounds of Science (Egon)â”Containing material originally designed to be performed live in accompaniment to the films of Jean PainlevÃ©, this hour-plus long CD is full of evocative, imagistic sounding instrumental tracks.
		The group released the material written for the PainlevÃ© films on CD as The Sounds of the Sounds of Science (Egon) and have occasionally revisited the project on the roadâ”to a few very select citiesâ”in the years since.
	artvoice.com /issues/v5n27/yo_la_tengo (2291 words)

	ESA - Space Science - Sounds from space
		Sound of an Auroral Kilometric Radiation (AKR) collected by Cluster resembles the one of R2D2, the little robot from 'Star Wars'.
		It is produced in the auroral zones at an altitude between 3000 and 20 000 kilometres.
		Afterwards, the sounds escape outward in the space from the magnetic field lines.
	www.esa.int /esaSC/SEMLAJWO4HD_index_0.html (587 words)

	TIME \| CNN: Our Interactive World \| Entertainment \| The Sounds of Science
		Progressive music and sound creation is increasingly moving out of the hands of guitarists and keyboardists in smoky studios and into the chat rooms of tech boffins in cyberspace.
		Much of it is now rooted in software engineering where sound, in all its forms, is prey to previously uncharted dissection and such exotic musical genres as glitch, minimal and microscopic.
		Glitch, for example, is a school of music born of the mistakes and errors found in the digital-editing process itself.
	www.time.com /time/interactive/entertainment/music_np.html (1407 words)

	Steve Spangler Science Experiment Halloween Sounds - Screaming Cup
		It's the perfect sound effect to carry door-to-door on your Trick-or-Treat adventure.
		Sound is transmitted through the air by vibrations.
		The vibrations caused by "stick and slide" cause the cup to vibrate, which results in the amplification of sound.
	www.stevespanglerscience.com /experiment/00000081 (298 words)

	Sounds Like Science - Bottle Organ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The sounds we hear coming from our instruments are referred to as notes, as in musical “notation.” Each note represents a specific sound.
		Discuss the various sounds the students have produced in the other Sounds Like Science activities.
		Talk about the different sounds that are made by a variety of instruments, as well as the different sounds individual instruments make.
	www.reachoutmichigan.org /funexperiments/agesubject/lessons/other/una7.html (449 words)

	Listening to the sounds of science - Mysteries of the Universe - MSNBC.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The instrument may not be for everyone: Its sound has been compared to that of a hyena.
		The instrument’s shimmering, sitar-like tones are created by longitudinal waves in the strings – in contrast to standard string instruments such as the violin or guitar, which generate sound through motions transverse to the length of the string.
		Wakeland illustrates the principle with a blowtorch and a single glass tube with a wire screen inserted within: When the air inside the tube is heated and expands, it sets up a resonance in the glass tube that generates the musical tone.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/3077403 (1156 words)

	Sights and Sounds of Science competition returns
		The Materials Science Research Center is soliciting contributions to the second annual Sights and Sounds of Science (S3) Project, a competition that aims to foster dialogue between artists and scientists in the University community.
		The competition is open to University faculty, students, staff, spouses and alumni and focuses on the science of the Materials Science Research Center, which addresses fundamental scientific problems of technological significance through its research groups at both the University and Argonne National Laboratory.
		The S3 Committee will select three prizes in each of two categories: Sounds of Science (recorded sounds and sound collages), and Sights of Science (film, video and animation, with or without a soundtrack).
	chronicle.uchicago.edu /040219/sightssounds.shtml (159 words)

	Interviews
		Science Experiments, Market Report Evan talks about science experiments you can do while waiting for a table in a restaurant.
		RESTAURANT SCIENCE: NPR's Joe Palca goes out for a bite to eat with Eric Muller, who is writing a book called 'While You're Waiting for the Food to Come." The book illustrates a number of fun science experiments that you can do on restaurant tabletops.
		Muller is a science educator on staff at the Exploratorium in San Francisco.
	www.doscience.com /interviews/interview.html (478 words)

	Wired News: The Sounds of Science
		Currently, Vibration Lab only works to model sounds of percussive instruments like drums, but she's working on modeling sounds of wind instruments like flutes and clarinets.
		The strumming and plucking of stringed instruments could also be modeled, she said, though she'd also have to determine how strings sound when combined with, say, a violin's resonant wooden body.
		"Every model will be different in some ways, because the material will be different, which will change the actual pitch of the sound you hear, and if the shape is different, you'll hear different qualities in the tone," she said.
	www.wired.com /news/technology/0,1282,69252,00.html (572 words)

	Forest Guardians - Endangered Species: Science Under Seige
		In an effort to enhance corporate profits and marginalize the public interest, the Bush administration has distorted science as a means of weakening regulations.
		The tactics used by the Bush Administration include censoring independent scientific research, manipulating or ignoring data, silencing government biologists, attacking watchdog groups that counter the political meddling, and finally by stacking the deck with industry biostitutes whose scientific integrity extends no further than their paycheck.
		Forest Guardians is currently compiling a list of examples of the Bush Administration's "sounds good science" that have occurred in the greater Southwest.
	www.fguardians.org /es/science.asp (369 words)

	The Sounds Of The Sounds Of Science - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Sounds of the Sounds of Science is a score written by Yo La Tengo for filmmaker Jean Painlevé.
		The live performances are known as “The Sounds of Science.” The program debuted in 2001 at the San Francisco Film Festival.
		What was different was that it was all sound for the most part.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Sounds_Of_The_Sounds_Of_Science (313 words)

	Amazon.com: The Sounds of Science: Music: The Beastie Boys (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Between 1986's Licensed to Ill and 1999's hits package, The Sounds of Science, the Beastie Boys matured from attention-starved brats to insightful, funky, trendsetting brats with an ace record collection and top choice in collaborators.
		You get to hear a variety of Beastie Boys sounds and in doing so get closer to the complete picture of what the band is all about, but if you don't care for their speed metal punk early days you might find yourself always skipping to the next track.
		The Sounds of Science is an impressive catalog of one of the most interesting bands of the MTV generation.
	www.amazon.com /Sounds-Science-Beastie-Boys/dp/B00002NDUA (1542 words)

	William Forsythe's Sounds of Science
		Indeed, as seen Tuesday, at the end of this section, the dance-iest, the two couples return to the corps before marching off.
		It's a pageant really, and in some ways his maneuvers are more effective seen en masse because then it's easier, at least for a non-dancer looking for more than just inventive mechanics, to relate to the movement purely as science, geometry.
		And the section that was about more than the science of dance, the one in which Lang, goaded by Champion, exploded, and the dialogue suddenly made theatrical if not entirely logical sense, while the dancers were given the choreography to respond.
	www.danceinsider.com /f2002/f0329_2.html (1796 words)

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