Blood, sweat, tears, and now screams

Even if you are a professor of physics, I do not think you can explain why this man is screaming at his paint canvas. I mean, I understand, art makes me aggravated too, but what is the point of this? 

I've written about sound, and how it travels before, so I'll explain again! Sound is really just a series of vibrations made by a moving object. In this case, it's the man's vocal chords! These vibrations travel by coming in contact with air molecules and bouncing around. This is why if you see amplifiers they usually have a circular part behind a screen which moves to make a bigger vibration. This is also why you become deaf at concerts. Also this is why you can't hear in space because there aren't air molecules. 

So maybe this man's scream spreads out the paint molecules. Congratulations, you can make thicker lines on a canvas? Knowing art, this will probably sell for two million dollars! Enough nonsense now. 

Luxury... ice?

In a world where people are buying the stupidest products for obscene amounts of money, I have undoubtedly found the product that tops this list. Luxury ice. Yes, Gläce Luxury Ice, is selling luxury ice cubes and spheres for $8 a piece. Warning, if you ask your parents for $325 to buy this bag of ice, they may slap you! Rightfully so!

So basically fancy snowballs for $325.

When ice trays simply won't cut it... Anyway for the relevancy of this article, these ice spheres are made using chemistry! So each sphere is hand carved from an extremely large ice block therefore this is a waste of time and money. These ice blocks are frozen from the outside in. Woo phase changes! The center of the ice is constantly agitated so that gases will escape. Then when the block is almost completely frozen, the middle is cut out and inserted with frozen layers.  

And this gives you "tasteless" ice! Which we apparently didn't have before...?

So study chemistry in college and you can charge people $325 for ice. Watch out for their hot (buh dum tsss) new product, luxury water! Only $50 per bottle! Just in case your parents haven't slapped you yet. 

Almost scary teamwork

Well I have another video for everybody because I was too lazy to read an article and comment on it. Odds are you are sharing the same feelings right now. Or maybe not otherwise you wouldn't be reading this. Since you already put in the effort to start this post, watch this video!

See! The team work is scary. Hire a team of ants as construction workers. They'll build a house in the time you'd use to call a real construction company! Ants are able to communicate better than people by using chemical scents known as pheromones (the link to the article is on "pheromones"). Scientists believe ants could have anywhere between ten or twenty different types of pheromones that they keep mainly on their antennae. 

So take away an ant's antenna, and it'll probably be more pissed than a teenager who just got their phone taken away. It's really depressing to know ants could probably build amazing things but instead they decide to construct piles of dirt with holes.... And this is why humans are the dominant race holding the magnifying glass. Woo mankind! 

Flying By in a Racecar

Is how I get to school. No, I wish. Somehow I'd still manage to be late. Well anyway I found this video which tests your hearing by using different sound frequencies!

I was playing this video, and I thought, "Wow! This sounds like I'm in a racecar!" Anyway I wondered why the frequency of the wave mattered in correspondence to the pitch of the sound. Thanks for the information from here. So everyone knows (or at least I hope) that sound is made by a series of vibrations. This is really what your vocal chords do when you talk. 

As you saw in the video from the animation, a greater frequency corresponded to a higher pitch and vice versa. This is why if you play a string instrument, the string is shortest during a high pitch note since it vibrates faster whereas a long string is used to play a note with a low pitch taking long for the whole object to vibrate.

People who are trained in music have been capable of noticing a difference of 2 Hz in a sound wave. In case you didn't know, that's very small. And if you are a music nerd thinking "Wow I'm a special!" well distinguishing between sound waves doesn't really count for anything in life. So good for you?