themanfromnantucket

There once was a man from Nantucket...

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themanfromnantucket

12 years ago

...almost.

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12 years ago

“ I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale. ” ~ Marie Curie; (Born 145 years ago today, November 7, 1867)

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themanfromnantucket

12 years ago

A lot of people on tumblr have fandom feels. I have solar system feels. Don't even get me started on Pluto.

Aw, cheer up moon; President Obama has a surprise for you!

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themanfromnantucket

12 years ago

Stumped?

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12 years ago

There Once Was a White Whale Who Tried to Speak to Humans

This recording appears to be a beluga whale named NOC trying to imitate human speech. NOC was captured in 1977 and became a part of the Navy’s Marine Mammal Program in San Diego. After seven years, NOC started to make noises that humans in the water mistook for human speech. Shortly thereafter, NOC was identified as the source of the sounds and the researchers began to run experiments to figure out how he was doing it. Four years later, NOC stopped “talking,” and almost 25 years later, Sam Ridgeway and colleagues published a paper on his vocalizations in the journal Current Biology.

As you can hear yourself, the white whale was not very good at talking. Then again, the whales, like dolphins, don’t have a larynx. That meant that the whale had to come up with a way to use his existing mechanism to imitate the rhythms of human speech. In fact, the researchers found that these vocalizations were not much like his normal whaletalk. For starters, they were several octaves lower, and they displayed a cadence that matches human speech.

[Image: Spatial Agency]

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