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  • August 2008

    • D'Oh!: 17 Sounds You Know

      Mental Floss Magazine  |  Aug 13, 08 1:55 PM CDT

      D'Oh!: 17 Sounds You Know

      (Newser) - Harley-Davidson's attempt to trademark its “Hog Call” V-twin engine sound stalled, but about 300 sounds have made the cut. Mental Floss sounds off on the 17 best-known: The first trademarked sound: NBC’s chimes, the notes G, E, C MGM’s lion’s roar More »

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      list  • sound  • trademarks  • Patent and Trademark Office

  • July 2008

    • Earth Hits Cosmic Pitch

      Space.com  |  Jul 1, 08 3:55 PM CDT

      Earth Hits Cosmic Pitch

      (Newser) - Earth’s atmosphere produces a natural sound and beams it off into the universe, Space.com reports. The sound—a painful series of chirps and whistles—is made by the collision of charged particles from the solar wind with Earth’s magnetic field. More »

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      space  • radio  • Earth  • aliens  • solar system  • radiation  • sound  • solar wind

  • April 2008

    • New Notes in Earth's Hum

      LiveScience  |  Apr 17, 08 7:45 PM CDT

      New Notes in Earth's Hum

      (Newser) - Scientists have discovered a new dimension to the sub-aural sound emanating from our planet’s crust, dubbed “Earth’s hum.” Researchers have known about the hum, detectable only by seismometers, for a decade, though its ultimate cause is unclear. They expected to find hidden oscillations, but the amplitude of the new “ring-like waves” dwarfed expectations, LiveScience reports. More »

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      science  • Earth  • scientific research  • sound  • Earth's interior

  • March 2008

    • Earliest Recording of Sound Finally Played Back

      New York Times  |  Mar 27, 08 11:29 AM CDT

      Earliest Recording of Sound Finally Played Back

      (Newser) - Thomas Edison and associates might've been first to hear recorded sound, but scientists have revealed they weren’t the first to create it, the New York Times reports. A 10-second recording of “Au Clair de la Lune” made in 1860—17 years before Edison patented the phonograph—has finally been played back by researchers who discovered it in a Paris archive. More »

  • February 2008

    • Scientists Near Invisibility Cloak for Sound

      Daily Telegraph (UK)  |  Feb 16, 08 12:30 PM CST

      Scientists Near Invisibility Cloak for Sound

      (Newser) - Researchers are making progress on something that sounds right out of the pages of Harry Potter —a sort of invisibility cloak for sound. A team of scientists in Spain is trying to turn theory into reality by creating a cloak that causes sound waves to slip around an object, the Daily Telegraph reports. Possible uses: shielding submarines from sonar, improving concert hall acoustics, or simply stopping the racket from noisy neighbors. More »

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      science  • scientific discoveries  • sound  • invisibility

  • April 2007

    • Time For Business to Listen Up

      Economist  |  Apr 27, 07 11:00 AM CDT

      Time For Business to Listen Up

      (Newser) - Companies that aren't tuning in to the business implications of sound are missing a beat, the Economist writes. And there are a lot of them. Sound affects everything from office productivity (noisy open-floor plans diminish it) to how much customers buy (slow music makes people linger longer). More »

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      business  • Intel  • marketing  • sound  • senses

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