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conulyI'm fascinated by this account of old print size names. Of course, we still use the term "ruby" in a specialized context. Picked up the first link, in all places, on a baby name blog.
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How studying chicken butts cracked the inner workings of our immune system
Test Your Sense of Pitch (Those wrongly done tunes made me actually flinch in my seat.)
Yom Kippur, a children's bike festival on Israel's deserted roads
Changing size analogies and the trends of everyday things (As far as "size of a deck/pack of cards" goes, my amateur guess is that it exploded because it's a standard reference for eyeballing a diet-approved serving of meat. Come to think of it, diet advice might be behind the rise of "size of a golf ball" as well.)
Why a ‘Memory Town’ Is Coming to Your Local Strip Mall
Plants communicate distress using their own kind of nervous system
Cookie theft renewal
Meet the new species of deep-sea fish so gooey it melts when brought to the surface
How Connected Is Your Community to Everywhere Else in America?
Are today's white kids less racist than their grandparents?
Myths About Your Thirties — Debunked (Political!)
Vision Zero: has the drive to eliminate road deaths lost its way?
The Curse of America’s Illogical School-Day Schedule (A longer day in elementary would be great if lots of it was eaten up with recess and there was no homework. But what're the odds that this'll be done right?)
Borrowing strategy from NRA, activists quietly overturn knife restrictions across U.S. (I'm mostly okay with this. Oh, I certainly favor reasonable restrictions on all weapons - but there are a hell of a lot more legitimate reasons you might need to carry a knife on you all over the place than a gun.)
I'm not on the menu: McDonald's workers strike against sex harassment
Many babies still being injured in infant walkers
Lehman Failed for Good Reasons
The Postal Inspector Who Took Down America’s First Organized Crime Ring
Remembering the ‘Mother of All Pandemics,’ 100 Years Later
When Postpartum Depression Doesn’t Go Away
Rights group urges Kyrgyzstan to end 'abusive crackdown' on extremism
The Unequal Burden of Climate Change
Ballots and Bloodshed: The Militarization of Local Politics in South Africa
Why Stripping U.S. Citizens of Their Passports Is a Precursor to Genocide
How studying chicken butts cracked the inner workings of our immune system
Test Your Sense of Pitch (Those wrongly done tunes made me actually flinch in my seat.)
Yom Kippur, a children's bike festival on Israel's deserted roads
Changing size analogies and the trends of everyday things (As far as "size of a deck/pack of cards" goes, my amateur guess is that it exploded because it's a standard reference for eyeballing a diet-approved serving of meat. Come to think of it, diet advice might be behind the rise of "size of a golf ball" as well.)
Why a ‘Memory Town’ Is Coming to Your Local Strip Mall
Plants communicate distress using their own kind of nervous system
Cookie theft renewal
Meet the new species of deep-sea fish so gooey it melts when brought to the surface
How Connected Is Your Community to Everywhere Else in America?
Are today's white kids less racist than their grandparents?
Myths About Your Thirties — Debunked (Political!)
Vision Zero: has the drive to eliminate road deaths lost its way?
The Curse of America’s Illogical School-Day Schedule (A longer day in elementary would be great if lots of it was eaten up with recess and there was no homework. But what're the odds that this'll be done right?)
Borrowing strategy from NRA, activists quietly overturn knife restrictions across U.S. (I'm mostly okay with this. Oh, I certainly favor reasonable restrictions on all weapons - but there are a hell of a lot more legitimate reasons you might need to carry a knife on you all over the place than a gun.)
I'm not on the menu: McDonald's workers strike against sex harassment
Many babies still being injured in infant walkers
Lehman Failed for Good Reasons
The Postal Inspector Who Took Down America’s First Organized Crime Ring
Remembering the ‘Mother of All Pandemics,’ 100 Years Later
When Postpartum Depression Doesn’t Go Away
Rights group urges Kyrgyzstan to end 'abusive crackdown' on extremism
The Unequal Burden of Climate Change
Ballots and Bloodshed: The Militarization of Local Politics in South Africa
Why Stripping U.S. Citizens of Their Passports Is a Precursor to Genocide
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Date: 2018-09-20 02:54 am (UTC)This test is ridiculous. I got a perfect score, and I have a serious pitch discrimination deficit. This was a test of identifying wrong and right notes within a scale, which means it's no more sensitive than a half-tone. I was listening to one of those "Silent Nights" going, "I'm pretty sure from all the previous examples this is supposed to be 'correct', but I've been practicing it in a 16th c. mean tone E♭ temperament, and now I can't tell if their piano is out of tune, or I'm so accustomed to the mean tone temperament I can now hear the difference from equal temperament (which was the point of the exercise when I started it a decade ago), or I am just Slightly Off again.
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