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Monthly Archives: May 2008

Be careful what you say

If you are a presidential candidate, or you think you may one day become one, remember the following simple piece of advice: the internet makes it difficult to lie.
Facts have become easier to check, and inconsistencies easier to display. And while the internet of a few years ago was a rather more boring place, [...]

Accents

Just a silly clip – one woman introducing herself in twenty one different accents. As someone who is incapable of mimicking accents, I’m impressed by two things. Firstly, by the fact that she captures the subtleties of several similar accents. Secondly, that she does it all in what appears to be a [...]

Turning off bits of the brain

I don’t know what you think, but I don’t think this can be good for you:
An editor for the Telegraph, Roger Highfield, recently volunteered to allow a UK researcher to shut off the speech center of his brain with a high-powered magnetic pulse.