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Tymoczko's answer, which led last summer to the first paper on music theory ever published in the journal Science, is that the cosmos of chords consists of weird, multidimensional spaces, known as orbifolds, that turn back on themselves with a twist, like the Möbius strips math teachers love to trot out to prove to students that a two-dimensional figure can have only one side. Indeed, the simplest chords, which consist of just two notes, live on an actual Möbius strip. Three-note chords reside in spaces that look like prisms--except that opposing faces connect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Geometry of Music | 1/26/2007 | See Source »

...Vortexx Chandelier Want to jazz up your dinner parties? With a Möbius-strip-like structure and recessed LED, the Vortexx chandelier by Zaha Hadid Architects for Sawaya & Moroni casts "an endless ribbon of light," according to its designers. Sci-fi fans might think it resembles something out of the movie Tron. And you can check out more of the Iraqi-born, London-based Hadid's work at her Guggenheim retrospective, in New York City until Oct. 25. www.sawayamoroni.it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shining Stars | 9/19/2006 | See Source »

...know very little about how social interactions work on the micro level,” says Möbius, who hopes TheFacebook will eventually be used for person-to-person relationship studies...

Author: By Aria S.K. Laskin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Friendometer? | 2/24/2005 | See Source »

Regardless, obscure Facebook friends can become a useful asset, and that kind of networking is of great interest to researchers like Möbius and Ward...

Author: By Aria S.K. Laskin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Friendometer? | 2/24/2005 | See Source »

...bius also thinks that TheFacebook can provide a window into the under-studied world of one-on-one interactions, even among people who don’t consider themselves best friends...

Author: By Aria S.K. Laskin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Friendometer? | 2/24/2005 | See Source »

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