“Today, I was baking with chocolate and it ended up all over my face and when I saw my reflection, I cracked up. Maybe it is a societal construct, or maybe I’m off kilter, but I laugh even when no one can hear me.”
–Liz
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Listen to Laughter.
“It seems to me that the week’s news about Elliot Spitzer is a perfect
example of the effect that Joanna Starek uncovered in her research.
Politics is at least as competitive as swimming. The same ability of
self-deception that made Spitzer a success in politics also allowed him
to believe that what he was (allegedly) doing was not wrong, or at least
that he would not be caught.”
–engineer27
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Listen to Deception.
“…it resonated with me when Robert chastised Jad for using the word “Awesome.” I’m going to be 31 tomorrow, and I still use “Awesome.” And I’m embarrassed about it. But, sorry Robert, “delightful” just doesn’t cut it.”
– John Umbaugh
“After hearing the stuff about consonance and dissonance, it got me thinking that our brain probably reacts the same way for other things besides sound. It is possible that our brain looks for patterns in images or even maybe ideas as well. Which is probably why change or new things sometimes scares us.”
— Lawrence
“So, now that artists run the gamut from consonance to pure random screeches, what can possibly be new for our brain? Noises at the edge of hearing?”
— eiaboca
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Hysteria Then and Now
April 4, 2008 – 9:52 am
“Remember the lite-brite advertisements for the Aqua Teen Hunger Force movie that appeared overnight in Boston that depicted martian-like creatures flipping you off? Remember the hysteria about that? More or less ridiculous than this original War of the Worlds incident?”
–Kyle K
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Listen to War of the Worlds.