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Feb 17, 2008 at 01:21 PM |
House is the most soulful genre. It's also the simplest, the oldest, the warmest, and where electronic music is concerned, easily the most human-sounding, making it the most popular, commanding the most producers, artists, labels, DJs, fans, and subgenres. The whole of top40 pop music gets its hooks, gimmicks, lines and melodies from house music (and vice versa). That is why it stands as the world's perennial party music, and it will probably stay that way until the end of time. Or until someone finds a more catchy beat than the 4/4 bassdrum.
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Feb 04, 2008 at 06:17 PM |
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Open your eyes at random and you are looking at more than could be described in a thousand years, and more than could be explained in a million. Lift your gaze to the complex, shifting irregularities of the clouds above your head. What sort of description could you ever give that would exhaust their possibilities? And what sort of explanation? Well, you certainly feel that it's possible to give a general explanation, just as it is to give a general description. A meteorologist could identify all the forces involved - winds, updrafts, temperature, moisture content etc. A physicist could name all the optical effects governing the appearance that this particular distribution of water droplets has for us - the angle of the incident light, its reflection or absorption by the droplets, etc. And very useful this might be for all kinds of purposes. But you mean more than this. You want an explanation of how these general forces have produced, not this general effect, but precisely this particular array of phenomena that you see in front of your eyes now.
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Feb 04, 2008 at 04:53 PM |
The clock spring is wound, the regulator releases its energy according to a certain inbuilt periodicity, brass wheels mesh finely with other brass wheels, and all the future states of this mechanism should be exactly specifiable. This is what makes it function as a timekeeper. We are not greatly surprised, though, to discover that it loses or gians a minute or two a week, which makes it plain that the specifiability is not as exact as all that.
Then one day it stops altogether. There was evidently a speck of dirt in the mechanism somewhere. One of the bearings has become a little worn. Well, we could have found the piece of dirt and worked out what it would do; we could have calculated the wear on the bearing. But we know that our predictivity is never going to be complete. We are never going to be able to isolate our clockwork completely from the other forces in the universe, or completely calculate the possibilities for wear and breakdown that lurk within it.
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Last Updated ( Feb 04, 2008 at 04:56 PM )
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Jan 30, 2008 at 11:01 AM |
Demikhov’s Two-Headed Dogs
In 1954 Vladimir Demikhov shocked the world by unveiling a surgically created monstrosity: A two-headed dog. He created the creature in a lab on the outskirts of Moscow by grafting the head, shoulders, and front legs of a puppy onto the neck of a mature German shepherd.
Demikhov paraded the dog before reporters from around the world. Journalists gasped as both heads simultaneously lapped at bowls of milk, and then cringed as the milk from the puppy's head dribbled out the unconnected stump of its esophageal tube. The Soviet Union proudly boasted that the dog was proof of their nation's medical preeminence.
Over the course of the next fifteen years, Demikhov created a total of twenty of his two-headed dogs. None of them lived very long, as they inevitably succumbed to problems of tissue rejection. The record was a month.
Demikhov explained that the dogs were part of a continuing series of experiments in surgical techniques, with his ultimate goal being to learn how to perform a human heart and lung transplant. Another surgeon beat him to this goal — Dr. Christian Baarnard in 1967 — but Demikhov is widely credited with paving the way for it.
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Jan 24, 2008 at 10:50 AM |
An image of a mysterious human-like creature on Mars that sparked a flurry of Internet activity is not an alien but a feature of the atmosphere, according to NASA.
The image, which was captured by NASA's spacecraft Spirit last November, circulated the Internet this week.
After seeing the photo, some called the image the equivalent of Big Foot pictures and evidence of an alien presence on Mars.
A version of the image was even magnified to show the apparent creature walking with his head tilted to the side.
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However, NASA said the creature is a feature of the atmosphere -- a rock 2 inches high and carved by the Martian winds, according to a CBS News report Thursday.
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