News tagged with rock concerts

Surviving dance club music (noise) with hearing intact

By tweaking a system in the ear that limits how much sound is heard, a global team of researchers has discovered one alteration that shows that the ability of the ear to turn itself down contributes to protecting against ...

Biology /

created Jan 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0




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Dropbox co-founder aims to build his own Google, not sell to them

Four years ago, Drew Houston was just another super-smart hacker with ambitions of starting his own company.

Technology / Business

created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 3

People don't just think with their guts; logic plays a role too

For decades, science has suggested that when people make decisions, they tend to ignore logic and go with the gut. But Wim De Neys, a psychological scientist at the University of Toulouse in France, has a new suggestion: ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 29, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Seeking a pot of geological gold

Researchers are moving a step closer to solving one of the greatest murder mysteries of all time. It happened roughly 200 million years ago, marking the boundary between the Triassic and Jurassic periods, ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 3

SAM I am

The Mars Science Laboratory is on its way to the red planet, and its rover Curiosity should touch down next summer. If the mission hits paydirt and comes across organic material, then one instrument in particular ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 06, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Put yourself in someone else's shoes: What type of perspective makes consumers self-conscious?

Certain emotions are heightened when we view ourselves from a first-person perspective, while others amplify when we observe ourselves from the outside, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Research explores virus movement in Madison groundwater

According to the conventional wisdom, drinking water taken from a deep aquifer protected by a semi-permeable layer of rock should be protected from many contaminants, including viruses.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 10, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Concert experiments with all-mobile ticketing

(AP) -- A recent concert featuring the dance duo LMFAO and rapper/producer Swizz Beatz seemed like a typical summer concert. But the fans who attended were actually taking part in an experiment in mobile ...

Technology / Other

created Aug 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Groupon, Twitter, other tech companies grapple with hypergrowth

Mark Johnson is something of a miracle worker for Groupon. No, he isn't a Master of the Universe salesman, nor a code-slinging prodigy. What he does is just as important.

Technology / Business

created Aug 12, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Gobbler lets musicians collaborate over the Internet

The light bulb moment for Chris Kantrowitz came in the form of a broken disc drive.

Technology / Internet

created Jul 22, 2011 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

T-shirt charges your phone by absorbing ambient sound (w/ video)

First there was tie-dye, then there was hypercolor. Could piezoelectric fabrics that charge your mobile phone while you wear them be the next big T-shirt fad? That's what the French telecom company, Orange, is counting on, ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Jul 04, 2011 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (5) | comments 3


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