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>New Earplugs Won’t Amplify the Sound of Your Own Voice I think part of it is that most of us speak more loudly to others when we can't hear them very well, e.g. when wearing headp…

Tangential to the topic but regarding the supposed Snowball Effect there is in real life no such thing. I have pushed large 'snowballs' down slopes --in reality they are snow cylin…

I agree swores. Your comment did say 'traditional' and my comment was facetious. There's been an historical transition from small chains owned by individuals (e.g. the Victorian Mr…

Thank you, I'll remember that next time I pay a visit to Sainbury's's!

The '666' portion doesn't inspire confidence either. We love apostrophes so much we have them on our supermarkets. If they're not there we add them. e.g. I'm going to Sainbury's e.…

Beautiful: humans, flowers, orchids, bumble bees, butterflies, ladybirds, birds of paradise, big cats... Ugly: most other insects, maggots, spiders, deep sea fish, proboscis monkey…

I think it's because when we get to know other people IRL what they say is of secondary importance to how we perceive their intentions and motives. These determine how we feel abou…

OK I'm playing it now and it's brilliant. This is the way The Sentinel was meant to be!

Pardon my ignorance...is it safe to install on Windows? It wants to bypass defender. Would very much like to try it.

...and so is Selection Bias.

I think it's vasopressin deficiency that is claimed to drive those symptoms.

And very occasionally it's a serendipitous name!

>Fully elucidating these economic and cultural factors is a major future project of this blog One rule of thumb seems to be that a new technology needs to be not merely better but …

More than a few middle-aged westerners would find it impossible to sleep with bent knees owing to a high prevalance of artherosclerosis (I think). Also one of the great pleasures o…

I think this speaks to an important factor which is that most of us have little awareness of our posture and typical sofa designs reflect this. We want sofas to 'collapse' on rathe…