Gaines: Prairie Madness

Gaines: Prairie Madness

Those who arrived from the East to farm the Great Plains in the 19th century did not have easy lives, and contemporary writers spoke of the mental illness, or “Prairie Madness,” experienced by many of them. James Gaines (@the_jmgaines) writes for Atlas Obscura about a...

Floyd-Pautler: What You See is What You Hear

Marimbas are the method in a story at The Hearing Lab, Nedra Floyd-Pautler’s website on hearing science. Each month, Nedra posts a feature about current auditory research. In February, she described how visual cues affect our perception of sound. Audio-visual...