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The apparent victim of a ship collision, a dead 70-foot (20-meter) blue whale (pictured) washed ashore in a forbidding northern California cove this week.
Though unable to move the blue whale, scientists and students are leaping at the research opportunity, scrambling down rock faces to take tissue samples and eventually one of the 11-foot-long (3.5-meter-long) flippers.
Though relatively infrequent off California until recent years, ship collisions are “the number one human threat to blue whales,” according to marine biologist Joe Cordaro of the U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service.
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Supermarket in C by Malcom Goldie
An experiment in ‘public sound’ - the checkout tills in this supermarket are re-programmed to emit their ‘beeps’ as a random note from within the scale of C Major.Ends up sounding something like Eno’s Discreet Music, minus all the delay. Soothing, really.
8-Bit Eno for real



