English is considered one of the most difficult languages to learn for non-native speakers. However, perhaps even more mind-boggling (especially for Americans) is the English spoken in Singapore. Check out the grammar section to see if you can follow along too lah.
I have no idea how to describe this. Two figures dance, they make music, you can start them and stop them. Just know that without the magic of the internet you would never be able to see something like this.
An archive of once everyday sounds we no longer hear. Come here to listen to teletypes, weaving looms, propeller planes, and just to make you feel old, telephone dials. Also included are historical sounds such as the bombing of London, and Apollo 11.
Dedicated to the liberation of garden gnomes everywhere, Stop Oppressive Gardening provides news, links, and ideological tracts. The organization hopes someday to create a world in which gardening is not linked to the opression of our tiny, silent brothers.
The target of shaman and witch doctors for millenia, endangered species can finally breath a sigh of relief, now that Viagra can serve in their stead. As this article explains, the widespread use and availability of Viagra is significantly cutting into the market for and trade in endangered species parts for consumption as traditional aphrodiasics.
Hopefully not something that will catch on in America or anywhere else with large squirrel populations, a British squirrel has many Brits running scared.
Phonetics Group at Utrecht University provides an acousitc analysis of singing with demonstration by professional singers. The Group shows that a number of special physiological and acoustic phenomena in singing can be observed in the way emotions in singing is realized, in singing at super high pitches, and so on.
A new study conducted by researchers at the University of Heidelberg suggests that spouses may actually help prolong their partner's nagging back pain...by paying too much attention to it.
Composer Terry Riley has a new collaborator, the Solar System. Space probes pick up the varying magnetic waves that surround planets and moons. These waves can be converted into sounds, sounds which Riley is drawing from for his newer compositions. Speaking of his inspiration the composer reported that in listening to patterns produced by the magnetic field around Ganymede, a moon of Jupiter, It sounded to me like a voice saying, 'beebopterismo,' so that's the starting point for one of the movements. The universe has spoken.
An enlightening cartoon giving the Buddhist perspective on what some of us do every day.