{"id":6443,"date":"2012-03-04T13:25:37","date_gmt":"2012-03-04T18:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/2012\/03\/03\/"},"modified":"2012-03-04T13:25:37","modified_gmt":"2012-03-04T18:25:37","slug":"geek-month-in-review-february-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/?p=6443","title":{"rendered":"Geek Month in Review: February 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

By JB Sanders<\/p>\n

Is winter over yet?<\/p>\n

Nightingales and Bombers<\/a><\/strong>
\nBBC sound technicians were doing an outdoor recording of nightingales in 1942, when they noticed a slight drone noise. It gradually got louder. Then 197 bombers flew overhead on their way to Mannheim, Germany. Oops. Hear the recording.<\/p>\n

Also, if you’re into old stuff, the site <\/a>where that recording can be found has a truckload of other interesting items:<\/p>\n

A Past That Never Was<\/a><\/strong>
\nLithographs from a history that isn’t ours.<\/p>\n

Everything You Know About Learning is Wrong<\/a><\/strong>
\nAccording to this renown professor guy, who studies memory for a living. So he might know what he’s talking about.<\/p>\n

First Science Fiction Film, Now In Color<\/a><\/strong>
\nThe French are restoring a copy of Le Voyage Dans La Lune (A Trip To the Moon) by director Georges Melies. This is a film from 1902. Although you might have seen it before, or at least clips of it, the version where the director hand-colored every frame has never been widely released, certainly not in decades. Now they’re not only restoring the rare color version, but they got the French duo Air to do an all-new soundtrack for it. It’s all very surreal. It looks like a vaudeville act, with no sound other than the very modern music playing over it. Neat!<\/p>\n

A Swarm of Nano Quadrotors<\/strong>
\nLook upon the robot future and despair! Or, you know, cackle gleefully. Quadrotors flying in swarm formation, in and around obstacles.<\/p>\n