As a result, usually only a small percentage of the population learned to read and owned books. In 1450, a goldsmith named Johannes Gutenberg in Germany invented the modern printing press. The impact of his machine is sometimes compared to the invention of the Internet. Although ancient Chinese...
With SZA, her shifting sound doesn't feel pretentious; rather, it's another way of showing different facets of herself. While accepting the BET Award for Best New Artist in 2018, she advised the audience to "follow your passion, ignore everyone" — and she has done just that from the st...
or a review of groups of studies. So that's a good start. Some of this is stuff I talked about in the last post, but because my only real function in the world is processing information and attending to the needs of five cats, I read everything again and will write anew about it ...
How to Use Either, Neither, Or, and Nor Correctly by Liz Bureman | 295 commentsWhat is the correct usage of either and neither and what grammar tricks can we use to remember which one to use? Read on for a quick brush up on some English language skills. My mother seems to ...
“There’s a basic setting designed to ensure the survival of the body,” I said, and everyone quickly went quiet. “If there weren’t, even visual and auditory stimuli would’ve been impossible to translate. I would be unable to make a sound like this. When the data is incomplete, th...
A real telephone is like a cross between a baked-bean can telephone and a telegraph. When you "call" a friend on a baked-bean can telephone, you speak into the can at one end and the sound of your voice makes the can vibrate. The string then carries the vibrations to the can your...
The release "CLACK" is the sound that the metal strip makes when it is no longer pulled by the electromagnet coil and it moves rapidly upward to strike the upper nail. The Morse Code Characters are called DOTS (or 'dits') and DASHES (or 'dahs') They are made from the CLICKS and CLA...
To reward anybody who managed to get to the end of this post, the ghost-of-Senna ad sounds pretty good, but the Shell-Ferrari one from a few years ago is much better: (I think that version's the best one on YouTube in both resolution and sound. Aspect ratio'swrong, though.) ...
To reward anybody who managed to get to the end of this post, the ghost-of-Senna ad sounds pretty good, but the Shell-Ferrari one from a few years ago is much better: (I think that version's the best one on YouTube in both resolution and sound. Aspect ratio'swrong, though.) ...