I finally know what those things on cars are for.

Apparently, the Co$' legal department is more of a paper tiger than previously thought.

Cats can hear from 48 Hz to 85 kHz! They can probably still feel the subwoofer.

I'll have to tie two cats to the side of my head the next time I need to test my speaker setup.

Quote:So back she went to Gilead, for The Testaments, published in 2019 and co-winner of that year’s Booker Prize. But finding her way back into the original novel’s world was complicated; she didn’t want to re-create the voice of Offred, who narrates The Handmaid’s Tale. And, because the Hulu series The Handmaid’s Tale, of which Atwood is a consulting producer, had already gone beyond the events in the original novel, she needed to be careful not to contradict a story already being told.

The solution was to set the new novel 16 years in the future – the show hadn’t gotten that far yet – and to find new voices to tell it.

Concord Monitor

(October 20, 2022 at 10:21 pm)Tomato Wrote:

Quote:So back she went to Gilead, for The Testaments, published in 2019 and co-winner of that year’s Booker Prize. But finding her way back into the original novel’s world was complicated; she didn’t want to re-create the voice of Offred, who narrates The Handmaid’s Tale. And, because the Hulu series The Handmaid’s Tale, of which Atwood is a consulting producer, had already gone beyond the events in the original novel, she needed to be careful not to contradict a story already being told.

The solution was to set the new novel 16 years in the future – the show hadn’t gotten that far yet – and to find new voices to tell it.

Concord Monitor

I listened to the audiobook recently and have to say that I like the series much better.  That's unusual as I tend to prefer a book over the movie adaptation.

(October 20, 2022 at 9:54 pm)Angrboda Wrote: I'll have to tie two cats to the side of my head the next time I need to test my speaker setup.

You're going to need to find room for a cow to pick up the really low end.

(October 21, 2022 at 9:00 pm)Jackalope Wrote:

(October 20, 2022 at 9:54 pm)Angrboda Wrote: I'll have to tie two cats to the side of my head the next time I need to test my speaker setup.

You're going to need to find room for a cow to pick up the really low end.

Well, it seems bats can echo locate at 270kHz, while blue whales can communicate at 7Hz.

So you will need to find room for 2 blue whales if you want to hear in stereo at the really really low end.    And you can tie two bats to the top of your head for these really really teeny tweeters.

(October 21, 2022 at 9:35 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote:

(October 21, 2022 at 9:00 pm)Jackalope Wrote: You're going to need to find room for a cow to pick up the really low end.

Well, it seems bats can echo locate at 270kHz, while blue whales can communicate at 7Hz.

So you will need to find room for 2 blue whales if you want to hear in stereo at the really really low end.    And you can tie two bats to the top of your head for these really really teeny tweeters.

Well, now you're just being silly, aren't you?

Bats and dolphins are not the only mammals who can use biological sonar to echo locate.    Humans can learn to do it too.    Some Blind people such as Daniel Kish make clicking sounds with their tongue and uses the faint echo to paint their surroundings and do things sighted people can not, such as identify from a distance whether visually identical objects are made of metal or wood.     Some of those, Such as Ben Underwood, can do it with such dexterity, and process so much information from the echos so quickly, they can skateboard, play basketball, and ride bicycles.

Magnetic resonance imaging of the brains of human echo locators shows the primary visual cortex, part of the brain normally to process visual signals, have been repurposed to process auditory signals.    They literally see with sound.