Take A Computerized Look At 17th-Century London

For as well-preserved as Shakespeare's writing is, there's still plenty we don't know about 17th-century London. For example: we know town square-style speeches were an important part of life, but what was it like actually attending one? North Carolina State University researchers really went for it while trying to answer that question, constructing computer visualizations of St. Paul's Cathedral in 1622, running sound models through them, and displaying the whole thing on huge, 270-degree scree...