Monday, October 24, 2005
Thursday, October 20, 2005
Franz de Waal's Inner Ape
Scientists used to consider the frequency band of 500 hertz and below in the human voice as meaningless noise, because when a voice is filtered, removing all higher frequencies, ne hears nothing but a low-pitched hum. All words are lost. But then it was found that this low hum is an unconscious social instrument. It is different for each person, but in the course of a conversation people tend to converge. They settle on a single hum, and it is always the lower status person who does the adjusting
Tuesday, October 18, 2005
Monday, October 17, 2005
Greenhouse Effect, by Thomas C. Schelling: The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics: Library of Economics and Liberty
Friday, October 07, 2005
Thursday, October 06, 2005
Wednesday, October 05, 2005
Mike Snider's Formal Blog and Sonnetarium
Silliman's Blog