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Brainiac

You'd sound smarter if you wrote less clearly

By Christopher Shea
September 27, 2009

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The Berlin-based designer Daniel Dendra recorded sound levels at dozens of intersections in Cairo, then fed the data into the computer program controlling a milling machine. He was able to create, in wood, a topographic map of that teeming city’s soundscape. (Full article: 810 words)

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