FURTHER READING. ARES, Inc., Port Clinton, Ohio, was awarded on Jul. 25, 2008, a $10,214,127 cost-plus fixed fee contract for the design, engineering, manufacturing, test and performance evaluation ...

This is how noise-canceling headphones work—they produce a sound wave that resembles the wave responsible for the unwanted sound, but with the original phases of rarefaction and compression flipped.

And that’s a damn shame, because a lot of Hokusai’s non-‘Wave’ stuff is stunning. The British Museum knows that better than most, because the institution has just bought 103 ‘lost ...