Here are three sounds and a click-able Processing js sketch for your Sunday. Pots and pans 1: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Pots and pans 2: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Sweeping vacuum chamber: [Audio clip: view full post to listen]
Last weekend I had a great time covering the NASA Lunar Regolith Challenge–a competition to see who could build the best remotely operated digging moonbot. Between each round, the judges would pack down the material with a machine that sounded like this (not quite exactly like this…I’ve played with the pitch somewhat): [Audio clip: view [...]
Here’s a healthcare multimedia/interactive story that I helped put together. It all started when Peter Aldhous and Jim Giles found a bunch of healthcare data from the OECD and Dartmouth. We’ve been drooling over Gapminder lately, so we decided to have a go. Peter and Jim analyzed the data and wrangled them into the charts. [...]
It’s been a long time since I posted, but I’m finally set up again, living in San Francisco now, working at New Scientist magazine. In addition to more sounds and beats, I will be posting occasional science pieces as I complete them. Here’s one to start, a climate change map for the US based on [...]