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The Biology of Music: Why we like what we like Boing Boing



  • The sounds humans make matter most, he said, because that's where we get information about our competitors and our potential mates--the things we need to know to be successful creatures. We developed an ear for the tones common in human vocalizations, the same way a sommelier might develop a taste for fine wines.

  • Purves and Gill found that you can correctly predict which scales are the most popular by how similar they are to the spectrum of human vocalizations.

Hidden sensory apparatus discovered in human skin Boing Boing

  • We didn't think they could contribute to conscious sensation. However, while all the other sensory endings were missing in this unusual skin, the blood vessels and sweat glands still had the normal types of nerve endings.

NYRblog - Are Classics Classy? The Roman View - The New York Review of Books



  • My job in these discussions, in other words, would be to explain how and why the Romans saw literature in these hierarchical and ultimately conservative terms—before the other discussants went on to have fun taking that idea to pieces.

"Do you See What I See?: Visibility of Practices through Social Media"

  • All too often we interpret content we see completely out of context, thinking that our expectations of how the world should be apply to others.


  • Just because we have the ability to see does not mean that we're actually looking. And often, as in this case, we aren't looking when people need us the most.

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Antifascist Calling...: Letting the Beast Out of the (Corporatist) Bottle: Obama Channels Bush on Bioweapons


  • However, not a single word in the 23-page NSC document addresses the vital issue of verification. Indeed, while no-holds-barred inspections of nuclear weapons' facilities undergird international treaties governing the destruction of warheads and missiles, thus ensuring compliance with treaty obligations by states, when it comes to biological weapons the "National Strategy" skirts the question entirely. Why?
  • the fact is, the "private sector" and the secret state's own Defense Department are dead-set against any initiative that give international arms' control monitors access to their facilities.
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Antifascist Calling...: Public Menace-Private Profit: America's Biowarfare Alliance



  • Noting that "the relevant details of the 2005 anthrax accident were kept from the public at the time, just as happened with the illegal experiments that are coming to light today," TVC learned that this work is expanding, with little in the way of effective oversight by Congress or indeed, by any regulatory agency.


  • Cole unearthed documents, including a 1968 official history of Ft. Detrick penned by a Pentagon bioweaponeer who asserted forthrightly that "research and development in the offensive aspects of BW proceeded hand in hand with defensive developments for, in truth, the two are almost inseparable."
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Freedom by Necessity - Lapham’s Quarterly

  • What we share most with our fellow human beings is our fleshly weakness. Any solidarity based not on this, but on some community of noble purpose, is likely to prove fragile. Solidarity of weakness is mutual forgiveness, and forgiveness represents the ultimate form of realism since, in order to be authentic, it must reckon with the full horror of the offense in the act of setting it aside.
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