Yes, sound can definitely produce heat.But you can't cook food by yelling at it. What we call sound is really a patterned, regular, ordered movement of individual particles.When we speak to each other, we force air through the small o...
Speaking requires the precise control of almost 100 muscles in the lips, jaw, tongue and throat to produce the characteristic breaths and sounds that make up sentences. By measuring the brain signals that control these throat muscles, Dr Chang has been able to use a computer to produce speech ...
You move, and it makes a noise that sounds very much like a fart. If you say, "Excuse me." People think you farted. If you don't say, "Excuse me." They think you farted and you are rude. You can't win. Then you have to move again, while people are looking your way, and...
“That’s the gentleman I’m telling you about.” whispered the shop girl and then she turned to him, “Would you like to sample them, sir Here’s a spoon for you.” The elderly gentleman, who was poorly but neatly dressed, accepted the spoon and began to sample one after another ...
If that sounds like it would be interesting to you, then you might have fun with it. Me? Yeah, I enjoyed it. As said, it took me a moment to get into the right mindset, but it helps that Mark Dacascos is the lead in this, because the guy is amazing. He might not be the...
their rejection of the consumerist formula always involves a loud avoidance of the first part of the equation, and a whole spirited devotion to the second. And because the premise of America requires the destruction of the old, and the constant, grinding acquisition of the new, the refinement ...
Dogs that are usually quiet have started to howl. Once a farmer kept tiny pet frogs. One Sunday, the frogs jumped around more than usual and made loud noises, like bigger frogs. That night, an earthquake struck the country.The animals can also do different things before an earthquake. ...
Manitoba – it’s a province, we cut Canada into pieces and then claimed that everyone needed different things; Alberta needed oil, B.C. needed hippies to eat organic produce, Manitoba needed winter coats, and Toronto, or as some might call it, Ontario, needed tiny, expensive condos to ba...
My graduate studies was on the conceptualization of home at various scales but one of the most painful aspects was learning about all of the violence within that space. Of course there’s physical abuse and the scars they produce but what about the emotional ones? What about being told ...
Until that experience I didn’t realize how much I took my own hearing for granted, or the sorts of emotions and experiences deaf people go through. If a deaf person asks you to repeat something, never think: “It doesn’t matter.” It does matter. 【1】Why did the author focus on ...