Wes Phillips

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What Did Swords Really Weigh?
Wes Phillips  |  Feb 09, 2006  |  0 comments
You know those scenes in movies like The 13th Warrior where the hero can't even lift a sword? It's BS. A heavy two-handed sword probably weighed about 4 lbs; most single handed blades were under 3 lbs.
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What Do an Oscilloscope Do?
Wes Phillips  |  Nov 29, 2005  |  0 comments
And how do you do that voodoo it do so well?
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What Does [Blank] Sound Like?
Wes Phillips  |  Dec 18, 2006  |  0 comments
An audio dictionary.
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What Goes On In Your Mind
Wes Phillips  |  Feb 17, 2006  |  0 comments
When you're listening to music?
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What Happened To Dynamic Range?
Wes Phillips  |  Mar 20, 2006  |  2 comments
What a great question; what a great essay. Thanks, Bob Speer.Via Jeff Wong.
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What Hath the PC Wrought?
Wes Phillips  |  Feb 13, 2007  |  1 comments
Robert P. Crease's article on the importance of letters between scientists in helping us appreciate the evolution of ideas planted the thought, but Adam Kirsch's review of Robert Frost's notebooks really has me wondering: Now that we communicate so much through email—and revise our drafts without saving them—will future scholars have to judge us only on our published copy?
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What Ho, Wodehouse!
Wes Phillips  |  Mar 29, 2006  |  1 comments
The Guardian presents Wodehouse 101. If you aren't already a fan, this is a good place to find out what Pelham Grenville (aka Plum) is all about.
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What I Learned at the Record Shop
Wes Phillips  |  Mar 27, 2006  |  0 comments
Imagine that, Michael Fremer send me a link that isn't political—and it's about records.
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What I Need for KwanzMasAka
Wes Phillips  |  Dec 09, 2005  |  0 comments
A ½W tubed guitar head—now with matching 1W hi-fi power amp.
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What if Godot Finally Showed Up?
Wes Phillips  |  Mar 06, 2006  |  1 comments
On re-writing unhappy endings.
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What If We Taught English Like We Teach Mathematics?
Wes Phillips  |  Apr 04, 2007  |  1 comments
"Imagine that your only contact with 'English' as a subject was through classes in school. Suppose that those classes, from elementary school right through to high school, amounted to nothing more than reading dictionaries, getting drilled in spelling and formal grammatical construction, and memorizing vast vocabulary lists—you never read a novel, nor a poem; never had contact with anything beyond the pedantic complexity of English spelling and formal grammar, and precise definitions for an endless array of words."
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What is Being Human?
Wes Phillips  |  Nov 06, 2006  |  0 comments
Is it in the genes?
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What Is It That's You?
Wes Phillips  |  Mar 07, 2006  |  4 comments
If you answered "my consciousness," then what happens if you wake up one day and it's not the same? This is a strange and frightening essay.
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What Makes Women Happy?
Wes Phillips  |  Jun 12, 2006  |  0 comments
Interestingly enough, this essay is by a woman. Sheesh, obviously only a guy would be qualified to handle this question. No, wait a minute, I 'm a guy and even I know better than to try to answer that one.
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What the . . .
Wes Phillips  |  Aug 18, 2006  |  1 comments
As often as I photograph Bagheera, you'd think she get over being surprised by it.
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