By Allison Kubo Hutchison Graphs are the bread and butter of scientists. We love them. Lines plots, bar graphs, line plots. Visual representations of data are the default on science. However, sonification, the transformation of data into sound rather than images has been gaining interest. One reason is that our ears actually have better time
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Win a Round Trip to Complete Oblivion Izumi Suzuki  Share article If you enjoy reading Electric Literature, join our mailing list! We’ll send you the best of EL each week, and you’ll be the first to know about upcoming submissions periods and virtual events. “That Old Seaside Club” by Izumi Suzuki  Sunlight floods the bay.
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Photo © Matika Wilbur For the 44th Annual Writers Week, the University of California, Riverside Department of Creative Writing, in partnership with the LA Review of Books, honored three US Poets Laureate with Lifetime Achievement Awards: Rita Dove (1993–95), Juan Felipe Herrera (2015–16), and Joy Harjo (2019–present). As part of honoring these poetry luminaries—three visionaries representing
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WASHINGTON — Six months after including it on the team that was a NASA technology contract, Lockheed Martin has quietly dropped in-space transportation company Momentus from that project. Lockheed was one of 14 companies that received Tipping Point awards from NASA in October 2020 to demonstrate key technologies needed for sustainable lunar exploration. Lockheed’s award
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In keeping with an ongoing theme of addressing many issues and disparities of the healthcare system, the hour focused on maternal health. Each of the doctors had a maternal/pregnancy case on New Amsterdam Season 3 Episode 8, and the installment produced some powerful content yet again. It also was directed by none other than Shiri Appleby. How
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Unexpected motion: disorder mixes excited states, which allows transport to occur. (Courtesy: iStock_piranka) Under the right conditions, the transport of electrical charges through wires with nanometre-scale thicknesses could become more efficient as disorder in the nanowire increases. This counterintuitive behaviour could be possible following a theoretical discovery made by physicists in Italy and Mexico. Nahum
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