* I swear by the beard of Sir Francis Bacon that I shall never loaf in chemistry May the pain of 500ml of the most terrible reagent to be found in the laboratory be inflicted upon my wretched being if I should ever indulge in the transgression of procrastination. So help me Dalton.
Wow. Maybe I should institute this in Gen Chem. On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 9:32 PM, Stan Halpin <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sep 21, 2012, at 7:07 PM, Larry Colen wrote: > >> >> On Sep 21, 2012, at 7:11 AM, Bob W wrote: >> >>> those wacky physicists will really be letting their hair down when they >>> celebrate this year's Ig Prize: >>> <http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19667664> >> >> The Acoustics prize amused me. Each year, the science club at my high >> school (The Brotherhood of Natural Philosophers, Chemistry and Physics >> affiliated) would hold it's annual installation of new members (we weren't >> allowed to call it initiation) at the house of our faculty advisor: >> http://home.comcast.net/~pqboom/tour/tour.html >> >> One of the traditions would be to quiz (interrogate) each of the perspective >> members (specimens) in front of everyone, while they spoke into a microphone >> that was connected to a reel to reel tape deck that could play things back >> with either a slight delay, or an echo loop. People would be given some >> simple task such as reciting the alphabet (backwords) or the Oath (*), and >> part way through, the person running the tape deck would kick in the time >> delay on playback. Hearing your own words after a slight delay, I can >> assure you, is a very disconcerting and disorienting (maybe that's why >> Tsukada developed his invention, he wanted to be disoriented) experience. >> > Going on fifty years ago, as an undergraduate I had a class in Perception. > Mostly visual perception, but we did have a chance to participate in one of > the grad student's experiments. He had one of the neurological > diseases/conditions, and he was using tape-delayed feedback as an analogue to > the sort of signal scramble he experienced all of the time. He hoped to > develop means for training those with such disabilities to be able to better > cope with their distorted signal reception. I have no clue whether any of > that work ever turned out, but it was an interesting idea . . . > > stan > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Steve Desjardins -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
