Daily Archives: 20.01.2015

Here’s What Embroidery Patterns Sound Like Played Through a Music Box

By Andrew Liszewski

Here's What Embroidery Patterns Sound Like Played Through a Music Box

If you step back and compare the two, the intricate patterns you’ll find in a detailed folk embroidery don’t look that much different than the series of punched holes you’ll find on the scrolling scores used in a traditional hand-cranked music box. Artists Zsanett Szirmay and Bálint Tárkány-Kovács saw the same similarities, and discovered that when played through a music box, …

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Source:: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/_sMXDq5W1ao/heres-what-embroidery-patterns-sound-like-played-throug-1680677885

      

15 hours on a Boeing 787 Dreamliner, in coach

By Geoffrey Morrison Boeing’s new 787-9 promises the next generation of air travel: better efficiency and better passenger comfort. But how does it hold up from the comforts of coach class on one of the longest routes you can take, from L.A. to Melbourne?
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Source:: http://cnet.com.feedsportal.com/c/34938/f/645093/s/4283ea54/sc/10/l/0L0Scnet0N0Cnews0C150Ehours0Eon0Ea0Eboeing0E7870Edreamliner0Ein0Ecoach0C0Tftag0FCAD590Aa51e/story01.htm

      

Astrophysicists Find That Cities Grow Just Like Galaxies 

By Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

Astrophysicists Find That Cities Grow Just Like Galaxies

We’ve all looked out at the night sky and wondered at how much the stars look like strings of cities. But there’s more than a passing resemblance—according to a team of astrophysicists who compared the two, there’s a much deeper connection at work. We aren’t just made of stars, we act like them too.

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Source:: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/EfrY3-DFnSU/astrophysicists-find-that-cities-grow-just-like-galaxie-1680462544