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Category Archives: Science
First Church of Zuppuology
R. Gayle Shiester: Welcome to the First Church of Zuppuology! Don’t you be Tarot-fied We are here to help you fill the cultural vacuum Don’t you be Tarot-fied Just pay your dues to the estate of the founder FRONK ZUPPU!!! … Continue reading
The Mp3 Encoding Debate: Results Are In
A follow-up to this post: Cognitive Daily yesterday published its rather (un?)surprising results: For both recordings, there was a significant difference between ratings of the 64 kbps sampling rate and the 128 kbps sampling rate, but no difference between ratings … Continue reading
An mp3 Is An mp3 Is An mp3?
Cognitive Daily is carrying out an online poll to determine just how audible the fluctuation in quality is between mp3’s that have different encodings: I created three different versions of two song clips — 64, 128, and 256 kbps MP3 … Continue reading
Music And Amnesia
In March of 1985, Clive Wearing, an eminent English musician and musicologist in his mid-forties, was struck by a brain infection—herpes encephalitis—affecting especially the parts of his brain concerned with memory. He was left with a memory span of only … Continue reading
Compact Disc is 25 Years Old
The first ones were produced aug. 17, 1982. And the “first CD to be manufactured at the plant was ‘The Visitors’ by ABBA.” And how long will this format last?
Posted in Music, Science
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G-Shot Tornado
Did FZ see it coming all those years ago? The G-Shot: By 4 p.m. she sat inside Dr. Justin Salerno’s office, readying to become the surgeon’s first patient to receive an injection called a G-Shot, also known as G-spot Amplification. … Continue reading
Posted in Bizarre, Science, Sex
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Darwin Who?
Yes Yes! The earth is flat, the entire universe revolves around it, and there is no way we could have evolved from apes. About time you turn in your common sense for some groovy Creationism! See also.
Posted in Religion, Science
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Hawking’s Zero-Gravity Flight
Doesn’t he look like one happy space cadet? “It was amazing,” Prof Hawking said after the flight. “The zero-G part was wonderful and the higher-G part was no problem. I could have gone on and on. Space, here I come!” … Continue reading
Posted in In The News, Science
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Homme Petit d’Homme
I’ve been scratching my chin for ten minutes now, trying to decipher this poem: Homme petit d’homme petit, s’attend, n’avale Homme petit d’homme petit, à degrés de bègues folles Anal deux qui noeuds ours, anal deux qui noeuds s’y mènent … Continue reading
Posted in Amusing, Science
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Chameleon
And you thought Zelig was fiction? Think again: When with doctors, AD assumes the role of a doctor; when with psychologists he says he is a psychologist; at the solicitors he claims to be a solicitor. AD doesn’t just make … Continue reading
Fundies Say The Darndest Things!
… and when they do, you can be sure there’s a website devoted to it. Some quotes? Hang on to your pointed stick: “A person who sold a slave did not make God sick like watching two men do it.” … Continue reading
Giant Steps
The John Coltrane classic, as played by… a robot: Oh, and they conduct orchestra’s as well, apparently. Crazy.
Posted in Bizarre, Music, Science
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Inside The Hungarian Psyche
Group Hug! Introducing someone as a ‘friend’ communicates more commitment to the Hungarian than what you probably mean using this word, especially if you come from the American culture. It takes time for someone to call you his friend in … Continue reading
Posted in Amusing, Pop Cult, Science
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Yellow Snow
Stranger than fiction: Snow ranging in colour from light yellow to orange and carrying a distinctive “musty” odour was observed yesterday in five districts of Omsk province, which lies in western Siberia and borders Kazakhstan. Ain’t no Huskie wee-wee either, … Continue reading
Posted in Bizarre, In The News, Science
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Dangerously Fun
One can only imagine what would’ve happened, had young FZ had an internet connection, and stumbled upon this. :)