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Bad luck much?

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No matter how long the slinky is, the bottom of the slinky will stay still (hover) until the top reaches it. Even if the slinky is over 1000 feet long.

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jtotheizzoe:

The Science of Why Adele’s ‘Someone Like You’ Makes Everyone Cry

Tension, resolution, and the ever important “buildy-ness” (which is a term I invented but is accurate), these are the characteristics behind the most extreme emotional reactions to songs:

Twenty years ago, the British psychologist John Sloboda conducted a simple experiment. He asked music lovers to identify passages of songs that reliably set off a physical reaction, such as tears or goose bumps. Participants identified 20 tear-triggering passages, and when Dr. Sloboda analyzed their properties, a trend emerged: 18 contained a musical device called an “appoggiatura.”

An appoggiatura is a type of ornamental note that clashes with the melody just enough to create a dissonant sound. “This generates tension in the listener,” said Martin Guhn, a psychologist at the University of British Columbia who co-wrote a 2007 study on the subject. “When the notes return to the anticipated melody, the tension resolves, and it feels good.”

Chills often descend on listeners at these moments of resolution. When several appoggiaturas occur next to each other in a melody, it generates a cycle of tension and release. This provokes an even stronger reaction, and that is when the tears start to flow.

There’s just about the most detailed scientific analysis of a Grammy-winning song ever at the link.

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That’s actually really interesting.

Oooh that would explain why I always describe the appoggiatura intro of “So Close” as “tugging on my heartstrings”…

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“Is this haunted room actually stretching? Or is it your imagination?”

WOW that is an amazing shot

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So clear…O_O

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WOW LOL

That’s actually really scary

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elledark:

How Much Does the Internet Weigh ?

As much as a fat strawberry, apparently. It seems that a physicist named Russell Seitz wondered one day, “How much does the Internet weigh?”  By which he meant the vast mass of data passing constantly through 75 to 100 million servers around the world rather than the hardware itself. You or I would probably have left it at that and gone for a pizza but Mr Seitz was made of sterner stuff as well as clearly being a man with too much time on his hands.

He knew that the Internet runs on electrons. That’s how the information is stored. And electrons are very small but they do have mass. Einstein taught us that. So he reasoned that it was possible to take all the energy (E) powering the internet and, using Einstein’s equation, (E=mc2) turn that energy into something we can weigh. And it turns out a lot of energy doesn’t weigh very much.

To store a typical email, for example, takes about 8 billion electrons. Eight billion sounds like big number, but put them on a scale, and they weigh only about “two ten thousandths of a quadrillionth of an ounce.”

So Seitz did the math, and discovered that while the Internet sucks up vast amounts of energy, something like “50,000,000 horsepower,” if you put it on a scale it does have a weight. It all totals around “two ounces.” In other words, he says, the whole internet weighs about as much as a “fat strawberry”. Others, recalculating, say it’s even lighter, more like a teeny grain of salt.

So there you have it .. I bet you feel better for knowing that .. I certainly do ..

(read the rest of the article this came from here)

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Are you serious?

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thedailywhat:

Kickass Artwork of the Day: Guy Laramée’s stunning book sculptures. Check them out here and here.

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