Node.js based web application to create audio files for SuperCollider, with SoundCloud integration.
By Nik Khilnani
https://github.com/khilnani/supercollider.web
Earth from Saturn
by NASA
EX1 printer lets you 3D-print circuit boards onto paper
1.8 million year old stone tool
The First Human
Stefani Germanotta in the future
From SNL
The oldest flutes
“Scientists led by Thomas Higham of the University of Oxford in England reported last week (May 2012) that improved radiocarbon tests determined that animal bones found with the flutes were 42,000 to 43,000 years old. This is close to the time when the first anatomically modern humans were spreading into Central Europe, presumably along the Danube River valley”
By John Noble Wilford at The New York Times
Hurrian Music
Proto writing
Earliest musical instruments
“Musical instruments may have been used in recreation or for religious ritual, experts say…”
from the BBC Science-environment
“And some researchers have argued that music may have been one of a suite of behaviours displayed by our species which helped give them an edge over the Neanderthals – who went extinct in most parts of Europe 30,000 years ago.
Music could have played a role in the maintenance of larger social networks, which may have helped our species expand their territory at the expense of the more conservative Neanderthals.”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18196349
A link to the source for this article with a silly song played on a replica of this flute.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8117915.stm