What if a cat ran your town? That’s not a joke. It really happened. In a small Alaskan town called Talkeetna , the people once elected a cat—yes, a real cat—as their mayor. No political platform, no speeches, no promises. Just a yellow tabby named Stubbs , and a whole lot of people who were fed up with traditional politics. It started with a protest vote The year was 1997 , and local elections were approaching in Talkeetna. This wasn’t a formal city with an official government—it was an unincorporated town with no legal need for a mayor. Still, symbolic elections were held. But that year, the official candidates disappointed the locals. As a joke—or perhaps as a statement of frustration—residents rallied around a kitten from Nagley’s General Store . They wrote in "Stubbs" on the ballot. He won. Just like that, Mayor Stubbs became a thing. What began as satire turned into a 20-year-long story. Talkeetna in the late 1990s Snowy rural streets, wood-paneled shops...
🎧 Can you imagine life without music?
We hear music everywhere these days.
On the subway, walking down the street—even in the shower.
But if there had never been music…
We might be living like emotionless robots.
Like ramen without seasoning—bland and quiet.
🔍 Who really recorded sound first?
Edison is often credited as the “father of recording,”
but in truth, the first person to record the human voice
was a French printer and inventor named
Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville.
On April 9, 1860,
he sang the lullaby “Au Clair de la Lune”
into a machine he created, the phonautograph.
It didn’t play sound back.
Instead, it captured sound visually—on paper.
🧠 Historical Impact & Scientific Value
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17 years before Edison’s phonograph
→ Edison invented sound playback in 1877
→ But Scott recorded sound much earlier -
A turning point in the history of memory
→ The human voice was recorded
not as letters, not as photos—but as waves -
A leap in acoustic science
→ The first attempt to visualize sound
→ A foundation for modern audio and wave analysis -
Restored in 2008
→ A U.S. team used modern tech
to play back that 148-year-old voice
🎬 DISNAM’s Closing Thought
Scott recorded it. Edison played it back.
And because of them, we now
share voices, feelings, and music across the world.
One man’s recording—164 years ago—
became the spark for everything we now hear.
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👉 Read it in Korean (Naver Blog)
https://blog.naver.com/disnamedu/223819907425
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