“Effect of Voice Change on Singing Pitch Accuracy in Young Male Singers,” Elizabeth C. Willis and Dianna T. Kenny, Journal of Interdisciplinary Music Studies, vol. 2, nos. 1 and 2, Spring/Fall 2008, pp. 111-119. (Thanks to Martin Gardiner for bringing this to our attention.) The authors, at the Australian Centre for Applied Research in Music […]
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Animation of a man who methodically cracked his knuckles for 60 years
A Chinese animation of 2009 Ig Nobel Medicine Prize winner Dr. Donald Unger, who methodically cracked the knuckles on one hand for 60 years:
‘Crackers’ (recordings of joints cracking)
Circa 1997, Professor Christof Migone (now at Western University, Ontario, Canada) placed an ad. in a local Ottawa newspaper requesting anyone with ‘cracking’ joints (fingers, neck, back, etc etc) to participate in an audio recording session. The Ottawa based Gallery 101 was about to host an exhibition called ‘Incredibly Soft Sounds’ in January 1998, which […]
Acoustical delight: The sound of coffee roasting
Many scientists having probed the smell of coffee, one, at least, is probing its sound. He has published a study about it: “Coffee Roasting Acoustics,” Preston S. Wilson [pictured here], Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 135, no. 6, 2014. (Thanks to investigator Daniela Müller for bringing this to our attention.) The author, […]
Anatomy lesson: “man caught with crack in buttocks”
The beginning of a news report on the Wicked Local web site, in Massachusetts: In Framingham, man caught with crack in buttocks By Norman Miller/Daily News staff The MetroWest Daily News Posted May 16, 2013 @ 12:01 AM FRAMINGHAM — A Dorchester man who sold drugs hid a plastic bag full of crack cocaine in his buttocks […]