At times I felt like I had lost myself, cause people try to make you someone else
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I said I LIKE YOUR HAT
You’re at a crowded party with chaos and noise all around but somehow you focus on what your date says. Scientists have long puzzled over how we do this — filter out unimportant noise to concentrate on one voice out of many in a room.
At first, researchers suggested the brain distinguishes different sources of sound by analyzing which direction they come from. But people can still focus on a single voice among many over the telephone when they can’t tell where the speaker is in relation to other speakers.
Now scientists have discovered that the auditory system probably sorts different sources of sound based on their unique pitch and suppresses less important ones.
David Copperfield, ladies and gentlemen
photos { Naturalist Dr Brady Barr | Daily Mail }
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That Brings Up Another Point, Someone Was Bitching About Kristen’s Outfit
Employees of Nova Corp., Japan’s largest chain of private foreign language schools, hold a press conference in Tokyo Thursday, Nov. 1, 2007.
Collapsed English-teaching company NOVA Corp., which has filed for financial protection, is in talks with several firms standing as candidates to bail out the company, it has been learned.
The troubled foreign language school chain filed for court protection from creditors earlier this week and its teachers claim they are facing financial problems.
{ Mainichi Daily News | Continue reading | The rabbit outfit the girl is wearing is a mascot of the school }
Tonight We’ll Explore Some ‘Ancient Airs and Dances’
I’ve never been able to figure out what it is with Americans and Halloween. It’s bad enough you go into the bank to make a deposit and some fifty year old hag dressed as a witch with blacked out teeth and a big pointed fucking hat deals with you. I’ve even been on cross-country flights when all I want is a drink, but I don’t want it served by some guy dressed up as fucking Dracula. Grow the fuck up, this holiday is supposed to be for kids, except now, the fucking kids have to have hundred dollar costumes and face paint. Who started this shit… Fucking Hallmark?
related { Halloween Is an Economist’s Biggest Nightmare }
Every Day, the Same, Again
Identical twins, separated as infants in a bizarre social experiment, reunited after 35 years.
20 percent of India’s economy dependent on kids under the age of 14, working up to 15 hours a day.
Actually, FEMA PR chief loses new job after fake news briefing.
Immunity deals offered to Blackwater guards.
U.S. consumer group flags more toys with lead.
China said Monday that it had arrested 774 people over the past two months as part of a nationwide crackdown on the production and sale of tainted food, drugs and agricultural products.
Texas agencies issue too many reports, a new 668-page report says.
I’ve had migraine headaches since the age of 8. When I was younger, they were severe, but infrequent. When I turned 35, they turned chronic.
Irregular warfare may keep Western armies busy for decades.
Why there aren’t right-handed apes, or: handedness and the evolution of language.
How to fight monkeys.
Build your Dr. Octopus costume.
Britney Spears’ mother is writing a book on parenting for a Christian publisher.
Long wedding dress train.
Trojan lead users to believe they are accessing a striptease programme where each piece of clothing to be taken off requires entering a particular captcha.
My favorite local Japanese place served something provocative: BULL’S PENIS… $5.50.
How much do compact fluorescent bulbs really cost?
Airbus A380 cockpit. Size comparison between four of the largest aircraft (Airbus A380, Boeing 747, Antonov An-225 and Hughes H-4).
Food dogs in China.
The ‘I can bench/squat/leg press over 1200 lbs combined‘ t-shirt.
Didst Thou Ever Want to Be a Pirate?
I always had big dogs. Then my [ex-] wife brought home a Chihuahua. It had a cough that night. I remember going down to the kitchen and sleeping with the dog, holding her. I felt bad for her. Man, that was sixteen years ago, and I’ve had Chihuahuas ever since. (…)
See, these damaged dogs—they’re like people. I know damn well when I look in this dog’s eyes that somebody abused him—beat the fuck out of this little guy for years. I know about that stuff from my own life. But he’s not even that little. He’s the most muscular Chihuahua you’ve ever seen.
related { Times Square dog Halloween | photo gallery }
