How to Beat Nine Chess Champs Simultaneously

Jedi Baseball

The Sad Truth About Relationships

The Sad Truth About Relationships

The IB Olympiad Results Are Out : 19th

They just posted the results here and I did about how I expected, 19th place. I'll post more on the final results of the competition later but just wanted to throw this up there. Thanks for all the support, and thanks IB for doing this thing. I hope that check is in the mail!

War on Terror Porno Musical

Kid Does His War on Terror School Project using Porn (Clean) from Arman Noory on Vimeo.

Happy Pi Day (3/14)

Happy pi day everyone, let me direct your attention to this article by the BBC or Wikipedia on pi here. Pi kicks ass!

Tesla Coils Instead of Speakers

Last night I saw this concert performed here on the UIUC campus. Two Tesla coils were set up and connected to a continuous note keyboard called a continuum. The Tesla coil on the left was filtered for higher frequency signal while the coil on the left was filtered for lower frequency signals that came from the continuum keyboard. The Tesla coils then generated these lightening bolts at the frequency of the electronic signal generated by the continuum keyboard so that the net result was lightening that created the sound of and was synced to the music. Essentially, these two Tesla coils replaced speakers. As air becomes ionized in a lightening strike it heats and expands rapidly, this pressure disturbance leads to the sound of thunder. If you could control the pitch of that sound with an electrical signal then you could play music with lightening, and thats exactly what they did last night. It was pretty wicked, like something from the distant future. Here's a picture of the musician before he started playing the continuum:


If you liked that video, I found another one on youtube from a show they put on without the continuum keyboard. It has some more recognizable tunes in it. Click here to check that one out.