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After filing papers in June to end their 10-year marriage, Jon and Kate Gosselin’s divorce became final on Friday.
Here are a selection of box-set offerings this season:
For years we’ve taken our dogs to our friend Gregg’s house for an Independence Day celebration that stretches late into the night. His hilltop home offers a view of fireworks displays from the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif., all the way to Long Beach. But these days we leave before the fireworks begin. The rockets’ red glare and bombs bursting in air send our dog Twyla into a frenzy of fearful shaking.
Warning lights hover over the snoozing patients in Riley Hospital for Children's neonatal intensive care unit, ready to flash whenever sound levels creep beyond normal conversation. As decibels rise, the colors on the new monitoring system change from green to yellow to red, hushing chatty parents or doctors so the babies get the rest they need to develop.
When it came to monitoring her impressionable youngster's media habits, my friend Holly was in way over her head.
Mindy Roberts watches as two scientists draw water samples into a long, clear tube while a 25-gallon aquarium is lowered upside down onto the bottom of an inlet in Puget Sound.
Some musicians spend 18 months working on a whole album. At Microsoft Corp., that's how long it took to perfect just four seconds of sound.
In Puget Sound, pollution is forever. That's the message scientists hope residents of Western Washington will remember the next time they flush chemicals down their toilets or curbside drains.
The Future Is Here: Machine Translates Thoughts into Speech in Real TimeBy implanting an electrode into the brain of a person with locked-in syndrome, scientists have demonstrated how to wirelessly transmit neural signals to a speech synthesizer.
Music and speech based on human biology, new evidence showsA pair of studies by Duke University neuroscientists shows powerful new evidence of a deep biological link between human music and speech.
CAPE WIND AS PROPOSED FOR NANTUCKET SOUND POSES A THREAT TO PUBLIC SAFETY Zoning is Police Power intended to create order by law to prevent chaos that results in public safety hazards.
Wave Field Synthesis Gives Us Flat Loudspeakers With Big Cabinet SoundFlat speakers with full cabinet sound are just around the corner!
KENNEDY FLOOR STATEMENT ON THE CAPE WIND PROJECT May 9, 2006.
Who should pay less taxes and why? Who should pay more taxes and why? How should these taxes be levied? What kind of tax plan brings the most benefit for the most citizens for a long time into the distant future? What plan would have the broadest appeal and still be successful? …
Humans Can Learn to "See" With Sound, Study Says"A few days of training" enabled students to obtain "basic echolocation skills" according to scientists who report their results "in the March/April 2009 issue of the journal Acta Acustica."
Sasers: Sound-based Lasers Invented | LiveSciencesound based lasers invented, previously only a theory
Scientists Create Sonic Black Hole That Blocks Sound Scientists have created a sonic black hole by creating "two clouds of atoms, separated by a huge gap." The atoms move so quickly in it, they effectively block out all sound.
A Human Language Gene Changes the Sound of Mouse SqueaksPeople have a deep desire to communicate with animals, as is evident from the way they converse with their dogs, enjoy myths about talking animals or devote lifetimes to teaching chimpanzees how to speak.
'Cone of silence' keeps conversations secret - tech - 09 May 2009 - New ScientistThis article in New Scientist speaks of tracking employees and bombarding them with "White Noise" to prevent them from hearing the person standing near them.
Vibrations Visualized With Sand And SoundShake a metal plate covered in sand at certain frequencies and intricate patterns mysteriously appear. Jon Jacobsen, a mathematician at Harvey Mudd College, explains why this 200-year-old demonstration still captivates scientists and students.
Rochester draws the line on graffitiExcerpt: First came ShotSpotter, a gunshot detection system that blankets six square miles of the city with audio sensors to detect and pinpoint gunfire so police can respond.
Teens Experiment With Digital Drugs - Experimenting with digital drugs is just one of the latest online worries for parents. Many teenagers are already hip to a new thing called, "I-Dosers."
New Speaker System Clarifies Sound by Canceling Its Own Noise -- Tech-On!Toshiba Corp developed a new technology to accurately reproduce sound by using an auxiliary speaker
Spain bar owner jailed over noiseA Barcelona bar-owner has been jailed for five and a half years for injuring her neighbours with loud music.
Our Aging Ears And Brains: Why Listening In Background Noise Gets Tougher As We AgeOlder adults often have trouble understanding what someone is saying when surrounded by background noise, such as at a restaurant or party, but their ears may not be the only problem.
Hills are alive with the sound of ants talking to each otherAdvances in audio technology have enabled scientists to discover that ants routinely talk to each other in their nests.
The Primordial Healing Power of Sound The mechanical vibrations that we interpret as sound are unstopped by any form of matter, the way sight, touch and smell are. It permeates solids, liquids, gases and plasmas. Considering its unique abilities, it is an ideal candidate to be used in healing.
Law May Require Cellphone Cameras to Click When Taking Picture H.R. 414 , cleverly named the Camera Phone Predator Alert Act, is sponsored by Peter T. King who is the representative for New York's third district. The law would ensure every cellphone makes a sound when the camera function is being used.
An "Invisibility Cloak" For Sound?"We've now shown that both 2-D and 3-D acoustic cloaks theoretically do exist," Cummer said.
The Story of Joe MeekThe stories, near unbelievable, are strange but true. In a flat on the Holloway Road, four people bang their feet on the stairs, stomping their way to a sixties pop-defining number one. The microphones that record the din are attached to the banisters with bicycle clips.
Stonehenge was 'giant concert venue' - TelegraphA university professor who is an expert in sound and a part-time DJ believes Stonehenge was created as a dance arena for listening to "trance-style" music.
Revived 45 heads for 60th birthdayAs the production line grinds to its own industrial beat, it's clear that music formats don't get any more physical than this.
Dolphin Language : Picture Words Transmitted via Sound"I have long held the belief that the dolphin brain, comparable in size with our own, has specialized in processing auditory data in much the same way that the human brain has specialized in processing visual data.
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