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Hagia Sophia Music
The marble interior of Hagia Sophia was 70 meters long, while in height it reached 56 meters at the apex of the great dome. The vast chamber and its reflective surfaces of marble and gold resulted in unprecedented acoustics of over 10 seconds reverberation time.
Googol-to-1 Gear Ratio
This machine has a gear reduction of 1 to 10 a 100 times. In order to get the last gear to turn once you’ll need to spin the first one a googol amount around. You’ll need more energy than the entire known universe has to do that. gears are probably the most magical device of basic physics. such profound implications from such a simple setup.
Bridging time
Cole was born in 1826 during the administration of John Quincy Adams, was alive at the same time as Ludwig van Beethoven, and lived just long enough to be captured in voice and picture on film.
Musical Surgery
A patient at a British hospital played Mahler and Gershwin on the violin while a tumour was removed from her brain so that surgeons could preserve her ability to play music and honor her 40-year passion for the instrument. This takes “I’m fully awake during my surgery” to a new level.
Improving historical footage
this example of taking a video from 1896 and upscaling it to 4K is quite something.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dgLEDdFddk
Chocolate Simulations
so awfully specific!
EUV
interesting look into a clean room
Visualizing Atoms
if you imagine an atom being the size of a tennis ball, blood cells would be as large as a small town and a penny would be almost precisely the diameter of the Earth
Gregor J. Rothfuss 