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Sonorous rocks

Posted in Uncategorized by Mike Stay on 2019 July 24

http://www.geologyin.com/2019/07/ringing-rocks-geological-and-musical.html

A more plausible theory is that the elastic stresses remained in the rock when the boulder fields formed, and the slow weathering rate keeps the stresses from dissipating. A possible source of the stresses would likely be the loading stresses from the time when the rock crystallized. The diabase sill formed at roughly 1.2–1.9 miles (2–3 km) beneath the surface.

This “relict stress” theory implies that the ringing rock boulders act much like a guitar string. When a guitar string is limp it does not resonate, but a plucked string will provide a range of sounds depending on the level of applied tension.

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Neither animal, plant, fungus nor any recognized type of protozoan

Posted in Uncategorized by Mike Stay on 2019 July 22

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Bat-winged dragon existed! (Sort of)

Posted in Uncategorized by Mike Stay on 2019 July 14

Ambopteryx:

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Using EEG and TMS for low-bandwidth telepathy

Posted in Uncategorized by Mike Stay on 2019 July 11

EEG on people staring at flashing lights can pick up difference between different frequencies. TMS can create phosphenes.  These guys hooked them together and played Tetris.

https://www.sciencealert.com/brain-to-brain-mind-connection-lets-three-people-share-thoughts

Spiders use electric fields to launch into the air

Posted in Uncategorized by Mike Stay on 2019 July 11

Refraction in glass as neural net

Posted in Uncategorized by Mike Stay on 2019 July 9

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