”It’s magic!” exclaimed David Giovannoni when he heard a shaky and distant voice fill a spacious auditorium at Stanford University. This 10-second excerpt from the French folksong Au Clair de la Lune made before the American Civil War was nothing less than the world’s earliest sound recording.
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/ 13 October 2007
For years, former United States vice-president Al Gore and a host of climate scientists were belittled and, worst of all, ignored for their message about how dire global warming is. On Friday, they were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their warnings about what Gore calls ”a planetary emergency”.