Russ McBee

Three very cool stories caught my eye today. 1) Researchers have managed to decipher and play back a recording made nearly two decades before Edison's phonograph. The phonautogram was made in France in 1860 and represents the earliest known recording of any sound. Although the recording (and others like it) have been known for a long time, only ...

A couple of random thoughts: Shortly after 7:00 PM tonight, it was still 101°F in Knoxville. A new computer model of climate change has been released which is able to model global warming over the next ten years. According to a story I just heard on the BBC World Service (no audio link yet), the model was verified by starting in a historic year ...