It was this Yahoo! news item that sent me on a 45-minute cymatics binge. They seem to be very confident that this is what they're saying it is, and if it is, it's really incredible and probably shouldn't be relegated to the "offbeat news" pages of CNN and the like. It's the stuff of life, of the human story.

While flipping through the channels today, I didn't hear about this. But I did learn that Britney Spears lip-synced publicly for the first time in three years.

Anyway, here's Mitchell's video:

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I'd heard of cymatics before, but had never seen anything about cymatics until recently. This is some fascinating stuff. Suggestion: Turn down your volume a bit. Not because this is loud, but because the pitches near the end of this are of the dog whistle variety, and my ears are still ringing from the experience. You can also turn it down completely and just watch what the different tonal vibrations do to the sand. At the end, the patterns look almost Mayan to me.

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