There’s a distinct coffee “flavour” to our latest digest with two stories related to the bean. We hope you enjoy the articles we’ve found and as always please leave your comments down below or suggest any good articles that you’ve come across that we could include in future posts.
20 Things You Didn’t Know About… Noisehttp://discovermagazine.com/2014/june/24-20-things-you-didnt-know-about-noise1. The Big Bang was noiseless. Everything in the universe expanded uniformly, so nothing came into contact with anything else. No contact, no sound waves.
Coffee Bean Acousticshttp://www.cnbc.com/id/101694658#_gusPeople around the world are drawn to coffee’s powerful allure– for its beloved smell, taste, and the caffeine boost it provides.
Watch Sodium and Water Levitate and Collidehttp://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/13/1307016-levitation-acoustic-soundwaves-physics-science/Engineers in Switzerland have successfully levitated both a particle of instant coffee and a droplet of water using high frequency sounds to make them collide. The result was a very tiny cup of coffee.
Large Hadron Collider: scientists create sound of ‘God particle’ – Telegraphhttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/large-hadron-collider/7848453/Large-Hadron-Collider-scientists-create-sound-of-God-particle.htmlSounds set to be made by the subatomic “God” particle at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have been simulated by scientists aiming to make the £6bn experiment more accessible.
BBC News – Grown hearing-hairs ‘beat’ deafness in micehttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-20960418Tiny hairs in the ear which detect sounds have been regenerated to reverse deafness for the first time, say US researchers in the journal Neuron.
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Chris Mason
General Manager at Prosig
Chris' early love of computers & technology (Sinclair ZX80's, Commodore PETs & Apple ]['s) grew into a career in software development, product development, team leadership, web development, and marketing. He is now General Manager at Prosig, part of CMTG. Chris graduated with an HND from Portsmouth Polytechnic and in 2019 completed an Executive MBA at the University of Winchester where he focused on innovation and strategy.
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