"No," she said, "your brain is weird."
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I grew up in the South and I cannot pronounce "pen" and "pin" so they are distinguishable. I showed Ms Ph.D. in Linguistics this article and said, "See, my dialect isn't weird after all."
A site dedicated to the BBC's Old Radio Broadcasting Equipment an Memories. Lots of microphone porn—and lots of other audio-related goodness.
As a writer, I applaud the new essay section of the SAT, but Karin Klein got up close and personal with it by passing the test to score the essays. She discovered some interesting things about taking—and scoring—the SATs.
My favorite: "I will not have Henry throwing tomatoes at a spinning fan blade whilst yelling at Montjoy."
The way I figure it, the least Popular Science can do is publish articles like this about jet-packs. If I recall correctly, it predicted we'd all have one in the Twenty-First Century.
While riding the F train this morning, I, for some reason, found myself face down on the Hawkins Street School asphalt. All over again, on this hot, summer, 5th grade afternoon: Jose Quiros pushed his weight down against my lower spine, clenched his angry hands around my 10-year old throat, and announced, clearly and confidently: "I'm going to kill you, I'm going to kill you, I'm going to kill you..."
A few days ago, I asked George Kaye to provide me with the pros and cons of using a passive preamp in conjunction with his 401HR, and to also go into some detail regarding the benefits of…
This A/V presentation from the BBC is a three-minute vacation from your day job. Wonderful pictures.
I guess I never really thought about the uniqueness of sand, no matter how many times I heard that expression. Microscopy made me think about it—and the corollary notion that every beach and sandpit is unique as well.
I do have trouble with the concept of being a sand collector, but I suppose audiophiles have no right to cock an eyebrow at how strange other hobbies are.
This Hubble Space Telescope image of the face-on spiral galaxy Messier 101 (M101) is the clearest, most detailed piece of astronomy porn I've ever seen.