Every day, inventor Simone Giertz is making the wo...  ...utube.com/watch?v=-OYYQBlgui8](Video Link)For her Applause Machine, Giertz took salad tongs from her kitchen...

Just who decided that we should slap our hands tog...  ...g?Scholars aren't quite sure about the origins of applause . What they do know is that clapping is very old,...  ...y instinctually. The Bible makes many mentions of applause - as acclamation, and as celebration. ("And they...  ...r would yell, "Valete et...

American music critic Alex Ross recently presented...  ...the eighteenth century listeners often burst into applause while the music was playing, much as patrons in j...  ...s that many classical composers actually expected applause during the course of a concert, and he is support...