Archive for October 25th, 2006

Music and Language

Wednesday, October 25th, 2006

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Various STFT spectrograms for the mathematical analysis of sound

Via cosmicvariance (Clifford) I found this very nice podcast by radiolab.org at New Yorks public radio WNYC.

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Invisibility cloaks

Wednesday, October 25th, 2006

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The invisible woman by marvel comics, Art by Steve McNiven Image from wikipedia

Sometimes its better to be unvisible.
This is not so impossible.
I.e. the theory is developped at various places, e.g. here at St. Andrews by physicist Ulf Leonhardt who has an easy to read introduction to the field.

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