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One of my favourite paintings.

When a fresh batch of snow falls to the ground, the world tends to quiet down.

That could partially be attributed to human factors: it’s likely winter, people aren’t out as much and traffic comes to a halt. However, there are more scientific reasons for the quietude. When a fresh blanket of snow settles down, it’s doing a lot more than turning the world into a winter wonderland.

“When snow falls, it does absorb some of the soundwaves,” says Bernadette Woods Placky, a meteorologist and director of Climate Central’s Climate Matters program. [x]

As snowflakes stack up, there is more space left between them, compared to the surface of liquids like water. With all that space, sound is unable to bounce off snow as easily as it would off water. As a result, the sound gets absorbed.

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HI (xhxix), Recent Work.

The latest dreams brought forth from the mind of HI aka xhxix (Previously on Supersonic Art) for us to gaze upon.

There is a running gag on the show “South Park” where Kenny McCormick dies in nearly every episode.

Sophie Rutschmann of the University of Strasbourg, found a mutated gene that causes adult flies to die within two days after they are infected with certain bacteria. She named the gene Kenny. [x]

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