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Url?sa=t&rct=j&q=jmemantzel&source=web&cd=4&ved=0CGgQtwIwAw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube. ZUCKERBERG: The Musical! (a Facebook opera by CDZA) Organize your interests naturally. The Life of flowers (Жизнь цветов) 6 Ultra HD Videos Test Your New iPad's Retina Display. If you brought your iPad 3 home raring to exploit the potential of its fantastic Retina display, you might find yourself without many options. Sure, there are a host of apps that take advantage of the display that Apple claims exceeds the perceptive capacity of the human retina--and naturally the OS itself displays at the full 300 ppi--but these options are hardly flashy. The real magic is ultra-HD video, the likes of which makes that Solaris on Blu-ray on your flat screen look like Dukes of Hazzard reruns on a Zenith Space Command. Unfortunately, few devices are built to capture images at a resolution better than HD, or 1080p--display tech has outpaced digital imaging tech.

So until consumer video cameras catch up with Retina, take a breath and enjoy this lag before the masses repopulate YouTube with cat videos so crisp the whiskers look tangible. The first place to look for extreme-high definition video is, of course, NASA.

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Getting started. Earth Songs. Our planet is a natural source of radio waves at audio frequencies. An online receiver at the Marshall Space Flight Center is playing these songs of Earth so anyone can listen. Listen to this story (requires RealPlayer) January 19, 2001 -- If humans had radio antennas instead of ears, we would hear a remarkable symphony of strange noises coming from our own planet. Scientists call them "tweeks," "whistlers" and "sferics. " They sound like background music from a flamboyant science fiction film, but this is not science fiction. "Everyone's terrestrial environment almost literally sings with radio waves at audio frequencies," says Dennis Gallagher, a space physicist at the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC).

Above: Lightning strokes like this one are the source of the eerie-sounding radio emissions that surround us. VLF receivers are simple, yet uncommon. If you have an internet connection you can now listen to a VLF radio anytime you wish. Listen to the VLF sounds of Earth Web Links.