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I write books and articles and am the director of @MIT_SciWrite. website: sethmnookin.com. Refusing to pay for checkmarks since April 2023.
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The Psychic Wounds of Being a Whistleblower Original

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By Seth Mnookin
| The Atlantic Verified
On November 14, 2003, a University of Minnesota psychiatrist named Stephen Olson advised a judge that Dan Markingson, a 26-year-old patient who believed that a secret world order was calling him to be part of a killing “storm,” was incapable of making decisions for himself and should be committed to a state treatment center. Less than a week later, Olson reversed his recommendation—a decision that allowed Markingson to take part in an antipsychotic-drug trial.
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自宅で巨匠の演奏を、スタインウェイ新技術が拓く未来の音楽体験

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By Seth Mnookin
| technologyreview.jp
パトリック・エリシャはボストン郊外のスタインウェイ・アンド・サンズ・ピアノのショールームで、ラフマニノフのピアノ協奏曲第2番の冒頭小節を弾き始めた。 同社のグランドピアノが世界各地のコンサートホールで絶賛される理由を実証するためだ。 スタインウェイのピアノは細心の注意を払って作られる楽器だ。職人たちが250人年かけて、グランドピアノ1台あたり1万2000個の部品を組み立てている。手作業で曲げたリム（ロックメイプルを十数層重ね、それぞれを熱してグランドピアノの古典的な曲線を出すよう成形されたもの）から、ピアノの動作に使われる小さなフェルトローラー（個々の音に必要な圧力を生じさせるのに必要）に至るまでの全部品は、同協奏曲の冒頭を飾るピアニッシモの鐘の音から、次の8小節で深淵から湧き上がるように轟くフォルティッシモの和音まで、明瞭に響く音色を生み出すために作られている。 世界最古のスタインウェイ・ディーラー「Mスタイナート・アンド・サンズ（M.
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The world’s most famous concert pianos got a major tech upgrade Original

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By Seth Mnookin
| MIT Technology Review Verified
Roughly half of all new Steinways sold last year included Spirio technology, which adds between $29,000 and $48,000 to what is already a $150,000 instrument. The most recent addition to the line is the Spirio | r, which has recording, editing, and playback technology.
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