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...wonder What's more surprising: Finding a classically trained composer at M.I.T.'s Media Lab or discovering that his research there has produced a Fisher-Price toy? Either way, it is hard to question the pedigree of Symphony Painter, a new kind of electronic music software designed for the Color Pixter electronic sketchpad. The brainchild of M.I.T. professor Tod Machover, Symphony Painter ($20, fisher-price.com; Color Pixter sold separately) combines visual arts and music: you draw a picture and then press the triangular play button to hear a musical interpretation of your artwork. Experienced musicians might predict some outcomes: lines curving...
Imaging techniques, which build on biofeedback principles, are another psychological option used at pain centers. At Stanford, Mackey has taught patients to literally watch "their brain on pain," using functional magnetic resonance imaging. By relaxing, they can watch lighted areas change color as pain fades. "It's tremendously empowering," he says, "all without medication...
Harris and Feister use three subtly different color schemes: the book’s colors seem slightly washed-out in the political scenes, the outdoor scenes are rendered in lush, oil-paint-like detail, and most of Mitchell’s flashbacks are rendered in pale green tints reminiscent of the scenes in the virtual world of The Matrix...
Telescopes based in Arizona spotted the star, which is three times the size of the sun, relatively hot compared to its neighbors, and bluish in color. The star has been traveling for 80 million years and is headed for the vast darkness of outer space...
BOSTON—If you looked at a program for yesterday’s C.R.A.S.H.-B’s indoor rowing competition, which displays headlines such as “I Was Bigfoot’s Erg Slave” and “Puce is the Hot Winter Color,” you might have thought that the event was a joke. But while the program emphasizes the event’s fun spirit, don’t let it fool you: the competition is fierce and attracts the best rowers in the world...