What is the sound of one hand clapping? If said hand claps 403 times per minute, enough for an Everett teen to set a Guinness World Record, does it matter what it sounds like? Actually, yes, said ...

WHEN I WAS GROWING UP, I ENVIED SALLY CULVER. Though she was five years younger, she had somehow managed to get herself a fan club. It began one summer evening, when Mrs. Culver brought her 1 year-old ...

“Hand Stories” uses puppets to play out its creator’s past, but the story gets a thumbs down. Mario Del Curto It hits you when the angel puppet with the Queen fixation starts warbling “We Will Rock ...

It might be hard to imagine yourself in ancient Rome, but if you were dropped into the audience of a play 2000 years ago, you’d probably know what to do when it finished – start clapping. Making a ...

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What is the sound of one hand clapping? You may have encountered this cryptic question at some point. It is a koan, or riddle, devised by the 18th-century Zen Buddhist master Hakuin Ekaku. Such ...

A round of applause, please: Scientists have finally figured out what’s behind the sound of clapping. The research pinpoints a mechanism called a Helmholtz resonator — the same acoustic concept that ...