Stephen Ambrose gently suggested that the ingenuity of the American soldier was a contributing factor in the Allied victory in WWII, pointing to the GI-engineered solutions to, say, Normandy's hedgerows as an example. That creative spirit is illustrated linguistically, too, as shown in the linked list of acronyms and expressions.
Sitting in Hong Kong harbor one afternoon, I watched container ship after container ship set sail across the Pacific, piled unbelievably high with cargo modules. I asked my host, "How can that be stable?"
Things are coming together and we're moving right along. We're gearing up for <a href="http://www.homeentertainment-expo.com/">the Home Entertainment Show</a> and preparing for all the spring and summer fun.
Timewise, that is.
That's what Tommy and Stuart Mitchell think. They claim the 15<SUP>th</SUP> century chapel's ornately carved patterns and cubes contain a musical sequence, concealed "because knowledge of harmonics may have been seen as dangerous, even heretical, by 15th Century church authorities."
<I>The Times</I> has published a lost Daphne du Maurier epistolatory short story unpublished for 70 years.
<I>Scientific American</I> tells you how to construct a quantum eraser at home—a devise that proves that actions in the present can change our basic interpretation of what happened in past events.
Judging from the response to last week's poll, <I>Stereophile</I> readers love headphones. Do you use dedicated headphone amplification?
B&W Group North America (Equity) has announced that Doug Henderson will assume the position of vice president of sales and marketing as of April 30. Henderson has been a principal of Audtek Associates for more than 20 years. "I'm excited about this move," Henderson told <I>Stereophile</I>. "At Audtek, we specialized in brand building, and we accomplished a lot with some very good companies. With B&W Group, I have the opportunity to use those skills with some of the finest equipment available today—and I have a great independent sales force to work with. It's an unrivaled opportunity."
When the brief flowering of quadraphonics began in the early 1970s, I was still at school. As a nascent but impecunious audiophile, I therefore had a ringside seat at the audio industry's first attempt to go multichannel—and, even for the disinterested onlooker, it wasn't a pretty spectacle.