Interesting Links for 18-05-2018

[andrewducker]

Here's what's actually going on with the Yanny/Laurel clip

(tags: sound age )

Accurate anti-drug slogans

(tags: drugs funny )

Some differences between Christianity and Judaism

(tags: Judaism Christianity history religion )

Exquisite Rot: Spalted Wood and the Lost Art of Intarsia

(tags: art wood history )

Deaths from fungal infections exceeding malaria, say researchers in new drug resistance warning

(tags: fungus )

Chinese mass-indoctrination camps evoke Cultural Revolution

(tags: China propaganda Education nationalism )

Edinburgh to ban all on-street advertising boards citywide

(tags: Edinburgh advertising )

GDPR Hysteria

(tags: privacy europe )

Comments

Yanny/Laurel

[agoodwinsmith]

My system won't play the clip you link to, but, our local news played the clip for us last night, so both SOGP and I were listening to the same clip at the same moment. I hear only Yanny and he hears only Laurel. They played the clip several times for us, and since I could only hear Yanny, on the last playing I listened very carefully for any sound of someone forming ELL sounds. Nada.

What I find odd is that I am 62 and SOGP is 69, and in a psych class when I was 24 there was already proof that I had lost my ability to hear the high pitched sounds the people younger than myself could still hear. I wonder if my issue is a larger inability to hear the low sounds anymore?

I mean - I have a processing disorder, so that unless I am watching your mouth, I can't *hear* the difference between bad socks and Dad's ox. But Yanny and Laurel are formed completely differently in the mouth, so this is weird.