by gofromjrocknyc
May 19, 2013 04:25 pm · 47544
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by gofromjrocknyc
March 24, 2013 12:15 am · 2
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A JavaScript implementation of the simulations presented in the paper Collective Motion of Moshers at Heavy Metal Concerts. More details are available at Itai Cohen’s group website including videos of mosh pits, full simulations, and a brief description.

 

http://mattbierbaum.github.com/moshpits.js/

slate: Oops, I’d forgotten that science, the world, etc., revolves around what males find attractive Annual revenues in U.S. in 2011 for: makeup industry: 316 billion dollars fashion industry: 427 billion dollars dieting industry: 394 billion dollars dating industry: 190 billion dollars post-secondary education (50% of): 322 billion dollars Yeah, she’s right, men don’t care about women’s looks, and women don’t care what men think! That’s crazy!  Gotta love her use of the present tense in an article about THE DISTANT PAST, too. You can tell she’s really mastered the topic, understands how hypothesis work, “etc.”… ps - i made up all those dollar figures m^_^
by gofromjrocknyc
February 24, 2013 05:37 pm ·
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slate:

Oops, I’d forgotten that science, the world, etc., revolves around what males find attractive

Annual revenues in U.S. in 2011 for:

  • makeup industry: 316 billion dollars
  • fashion industry: 427 billion dollars
  • dieting industry: 394 billion dollars
  • dating industry: 190 billion dollars
  • post-secondary education (50% of): 322 billion dollars


Yeah, she’s right, men don’t care about women’s looks, and women don’t care what men think! That’s crazy! 

Gotta love her use of the present tense in an article about THE DISTANT PAST, too. You can tell she’s really mastered the topic, understands how hypothesis work, “etc.”…

ps - i made up all those dollar figures m^_^

by gofromjrocknyc
February 20, 2013 12:34 pm ·
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I brought him two shopping bags filled with a variety of chips to taste. He zeroed right in on the Cheetos. “This,” Witherly said, “is one of the most marvelously constructed foods on the planet, in terms of pure pleasure.” He ticked off a dozen attributes of the Cheetos that make the brain say MOAR. But the one he focused on most was the puff’s uncanny ability to melt in the mouth. “It’s called vanishing caloric density,” Witherly said. “If something melts down quickly, your brain thinks that there’s no calories in it … you can just keep eating it forever.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/magazine/the-extraordinary-science-of-junk-food.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

Let Me Hear You Scream The growls and screams of hardcore/metal bands like Bitterness Exhumed (pictured) sound painful, but those vocal pyrotechnics might be less damaging to the singer than you might expect. There’s not much scholarly work on what happens in the throats of heavy metal singers when they perform, says musicologist Marcus Erbe of the University of Cologne in Germany. So Erbe, who has been doing field work in the heavy metal, death metal, and hardcore band scene in Germany for several years, teamed up with linguist Sven Grawunder of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig and ear, nose, and throat physician Michael Fuchs of the Leipzig University School of Medicine to investigate. The researchers used an endoscope to make videos of vocalists emitting growls, screams, and other standard-fare sounds of the genre. Initial results from six participants indicate that the performers—whose range rivals that of classical opera singers—produce their characteristic sounds with not only the true vocal folds but also with the vestibular folds and aryepiglottic folds, which are located higher in the larynx. And part of the desired sound comes from vibrating mucus in the singers’ throats—which might also help protect their voices. Several participants have voice-intensive day jobs as counselors or teachers, but none reported any voice problems, Fuchs says. Grawunder also plans to compare the sounds with those found in, for example, unusual consonants in various languages and Tuvan throat singing in Siberia. Metal performers push the human voice to its limits, says musicologist Michael Custodis of the University of Münster who is not part of the project. To use high-quality scientific methods to study that process “is fantastic.” http://www.sciencemag.org/content/338/6114/1517.2.full
by gofromjrocknyc
February 6, 2013 04:57 pm · 4
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Let Me Hear You Scream

The growls and screams of hardcore/metal bands like Bitterness Exhumed (pictured) sound painful, but those vocal pyrotechnics might be less damaging to the singer than you might expect. There’s not much scholarly work on what happens in the throats of heavy metal singers when they perform, says musicologist Marcus Erbe of the University of Cologne in Germany. So Erbe, who has been doing field work in the heavy metal, death metal, and hardcore band scene in Germany for several years, teamed up with linguist Sven Grawunder of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig and ear, nose, and throat physician Michael Fuchs of the Leipzig University School of Medicine to investigate.

The researchers used an endoscope to make videos of vocalists emitting growls, screams, and other standard-fare sounds of the genre. Initial results from six participants indicate that the performers—whose range rivals that of classical opera singers—produce their characteristic sounds with not only the true vocal folds but also with the vestibular folds and aryepiglottic folds, which are located higher in the larynx. And part of the desired sound comes from vibrating mucus in the singers’ throats—which might also help protect their voices. Several participants have voice-intensive day jobs as counselors or teachers, but none reported any voice problems, Fuchs says. Grawunder also plans to compare the sounds with those found in, for example, unusual consonants in various languages and Tuvan throat singing in Siberia.

Metal performers push the human voice to its limits, says musicologist Michael Custodis of the University of Münster who is not part of the project. To use high-quality scientific methods to study that process “is fantastic.”

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/338/6114/1517.2.full