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Scientists/Heavy Metal Band ThE PhysicistS Release New Single “Wayne Newton Hulabaloo”

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Posted by JonathanBarkan on December 18, 2012 @ 9:00am
Category: Music / Videos

Finnish scientists turned heavy metal band ThE PhysicistS have released a new song entitled “Wayne Newton Hulabaloo”. If I’m reading the band’s website right, it’s the first new single from the band since 2008 when they released the The Old Religion EP. You can hear the track below as well as see their video for Oppenheimer, which was the title track of their debut album.

Honestly readers, it’s pretty badass stuff. I really recommend checking it out. It’s infectious, fun good ole’ heavy metal. READ MORE

[Random Cool] Scientists Figure Out The World’s Harshest Sound

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Posted by JonathanBarkan on October 12, 2012 @ 12:00pm
Category: Music / News

Okay, I wasn’t going to share this with you readers until I read precisely what the world’s harshest sound is: a knife scraping against a glass bottle. How freaking unnerving is that? It’s not nails on a chalkboard or even Jim Carrey. It’s something that is right out of a damn torture film.

The study didn’t test peoples reactions but rather the acoustics of the ear itself. The MRI detected blood flow and also monitored the amygdala, the portion of the brain dedicated to processing emotions. Only 13 subjects were tested, each of them listening to 74 different sounds in the MRI. The second most repulsive sound to the human brain was a fork being scraped against a bottle (big surprise) while flowing water was the most calming.

One of the purposes of this study is to determine how the ear works with disorders like misophonia as well as the more common tinnitus. READ MORE

[Awesome] Hear The Sounds That Maggots And Centipedes Make

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Posted by JonathanBarkan on March 21, 2012 @ 4:00pm
Category: Music / News

[Awesome] Hear The Sounds That Maggots And Centipedes Make

This is just WAY too cool not to share. BBC’s Bang Goes The Theory is running a series on the audio of life around us and they took the time to try and hear the quietest little critters possible: maggots, centipedes, and snails. By entering an anechoic chamber (a completely soundproof room that has zero acoustics) and setting up extremely sensitive microphones, the team gets to hear the sound of a maggot wriggling, a centipede walking, and a snail eating. Check out the video clip below.

For some reason, things like this simply fascinate me. Another example of this fascination is the guy who took slices of tree trunks and converted the age rings and wood grain into music. Check out that article here.