Scientists discover most relaxing tune ever - Music. A British band and a group of scientists have made the most relaxing tune in the history of man, an Mp3 of which is at the bottom of this article. Sound therapists and Manchester band Marconi Union compiled the song. Scientists played it to 40 women and found it to be more effective at helping them relax than songs by Enya, Mozart and Coldplay. Weightless works by using specific rhythms, tones, frequencies and intervals to relax the listener. A continuous rhythm of 60 BPM causes the brainwaves and heart rate to synchronise with the rhythm: a process known as ‘entrainment’. Low underlying bass tones relax the listener and a low whooshing sound with a trance-like quality takes the listener into an even deeper state of calm. Dr David Lewis, one of the UK’s leading stress specialists said: “‘Weightless’ induced the greatest relaxation – higher than any of the other music tested.
The top 10 most relaxing tunes were: 1. Listen to it on Soundcloud here. Image: Rex Tags: Music. A Ball of Super Hot Metal Is an Awesomely Noisy Way to Heat Your Water. These Exploding Droplets of Glass Are a Bewildering Quirk of Physics. How Far is it to Mars? Spectrum of Colors Revealed Through Lit String Vibrations. British artist, physicist, and all-around science enthusiast Paul Friedlander produces kinetic light sculptures that provide a colorful feast for the eyes.
Each piece in his body of work offers a visual medley of light and motion by rapidly rotating a piece of string through white light. The vibrating rope becomes invisible to the human eye, but colors from the light (which would normally be invisible to the naked eye) are revealed in rapid succession. The scientific artist gives insight into the history of his career shift into the arts and explains the science in it all: "I decided to focus on kinetic art: a subject in which I could bring together my divided background and combine my knowledge of physics with my love of light. In 1983, at London's ICA, I exhibited the first sculptures to use chromastrobic light, a discovery I had made the previous year.
Check out the video, below, to get an idea of this fantastic visual in motion. Paul Friedlander website via [My Amp Goes to 11] Magnetic Putty is Completely Amazing/Terrifying. Magnetic putty is just like any other putty in that you can handle it, sculpt it, and squeeze it in a fist as you visualize your enemies. But place it anywhere near a strong magnetic field and it will SPONTANEOUSLY ANIMATE and move to consume anything magnetic in its path like a voracious mutated slug. In fact the putty won’t stop moving until the object has been equally engulfed on all sides. PBS Digital Studios and Shanks FX used the putty in parts of their recent film short SCI-FLY, and just posted this extended cut of special effects shots that explore its heinous capabilities. To be fair, these clips are sped up quite a bit as the actual motion of the putty consuming other objects is only faintly perceptible in real time.
Want to experiment with magnetic putty yourself? Infinity Imagined. Space Audio. Is This How Our Ancestors Sounded? Linguist Recreates Proto-Indo-European Language (AUDIO) What did our ancient ancestors sound like? Between approximately 4,500 and 2,500 B.C., the ancestors of much of Europe and Asia once spoke the same mother tongue, a language referred to as Proto-Indo-European, or PIE.
Although there is no written record of such a language, linguist Dr. Andrew Byrd recently attempted to reconstruct his own recordings of PIE language for Archaeology magazine, building off three centuries' worth of scholarly work on the topic. Byrd is an expert in ancient Indo-European linguistics, focusing on phonology, and teaches at the University of Kentucky.
For his recording, he edited and recited his own version of a reconstructed PIE fable known as "The Sheep and the Horses," as well as a version of a Sanskrit story called “The King and the God.” "The Sheep and the Horses" is an interesting case because it was actually written in 1868 by German linguist Dr. Here is the passage translated into English: Also on HuffPost: 21 500 Computer Pod Work Station | Gadget. Would you ever stop using shampoo? Until recently, I’d never heard of the “No ‘Poo” method for washing hair. I had no idea that giving up shampoo altogether was even an option. Surely hair would turn into a huge greasy mess! But then a friend showed up one day with her thick, silky, shiny hair looking fabulous, and announced that she’d ditched the shampoo months ago. I was stunned. I found out that two more friends had gone the no ‘poo route, too. One had great success with her long, curly hair; the other, who has thinner hair, had to switch back to natural shampoo because her adjustment period lasted too long.
It seems there’s a new natural beauty trend underfoot, and I wanted to find out a bit more. According to The Skintervention Guide: Purely Paleo Skincare, written by Liz Wolfe, the No ‘Poo method allows the scalp to rebalance itself. How does it work? Have you gone the “No ‘Poo” route? How to Go Green: Natural Skin Care. With reporting by Manon Verchot It turns out beauty is more than skin deep: The average person slathers, lathers, rubs and sprays, 10 different skin care products on his or her body every day--and since our skin acts more like a sponge than a barrier, we absorb the nearly 130 chemicals we regularly expose ourselves to.
Cosmetics companies and the FDA maintain that these chemicals are safe, and many of them are--in small doses at least. But consider that the average woman wears makeup every day, and you begin to understand how a little dab here a quick spray there begins to add up. The fact is, no one really knows how certain chemicals affect us over time, or how they react in our bodies in combination. Other chemicals have known dangers: Phthalates, for example, which are often found in artificial fragrances, are a class of hormone disruptor which can be linked to birth defects, sperm damage, infertility, and the feminization of baby boys, for instance. © Adivasi Body LLC © K Martinko. This is what the Universe would look like if it were a tiny model. Heat maps reveal where you feel emotions in your body. DURR shivering bracelet by skrekkøgle alters perception of time. Dec 25, 2013 DURR shivering bracelet by skrekkøgle alters perception of time durr time-sensitive + shivering bracelet by skrekkøgleall images courtesy skrekkøgle DURRvideo courtesy skrekkøgle the interactive experiment investigates how users perceive time through a display-less braclet making of DURRvideo courtesy skrekkøgle the limited edition bracelet was built using arduino, ATTiny85 and a PCB board coding the bracelet [h/t] rodrigo caula I designboom.