Many types of silencer are already commercially available – trumpet silencers, gun silencers, social media silencers & etc – now there is a new variant, a dog silencer (proposed by a research team at Niigata University, Japan) which can help to attenuate nuisance dog barks, especially at kennels. “This study is related to the use […]
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Shhhhhhhhhhhh
The “Silences of Science” conference in London, which seems to have happened, quietly, on July 2-3, described itself thus: The Silences of Science is an AHRC-funded research network examining different aspects of the paradox that science depends both on prolixity and on reticence. Read about the full program. (Thanks to investigator Tina Owens for bringing this […]
Ig Nobel winners on display in Hakodate July 1
Two of the most eloquent Ig Nobel Prize winners will give free public talks at Future University Hakodate, Japan, on July 1, starting at 6:30 pm: Toshiyuki Nakagaki, winner of two Ig Nobel Prizes for his (and his colleagues’) various experiments with slime mold Koji Tsukada, co-inventor of the SpeechJammer, a machine that disrupts a person’s […]
Sounds and Thinging Things
What do a coffee machine, a mosquito, a fridge, gastric ‘flu and silence have in common? One answer is sounds. Or lack thereof. And all have been researched by Dr. Salomé Voegelin who is Sound Arts Course Leader, and Member of CRiSAP at the London College of Communication, University of the Arts London. Dr. Voegelin […]