On Sep 21, 2012, at 7:11 AM, Bob W wrote: > those wacky physicists will really be letting their hair down when they > celebrate this year's Ig Prize: > <http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19667664>
The Acoustics prize amused me. Each year, the science club at my high school (The Brotherhood of Natural Philosophers, Chemistry and Physics affiliated) would hold it's annual installation of new members (we weren't allowed to call it initiation) at the house of our faculty advisor: http://home.comcast.net/~pqboom/tour/tour.html One of the traditions would be to quiz (interrogate) each of the perspective members (specimens) in front of everyone, while they spoke into a microphone that was connected to a reel to reel tape deck that could play things back with either a slight delay, or an echo loop. People would be given some simple task such as reciting the alphabet (backwords) or the Oath (*), and part way through, the person running the tape deck would kick in the time delay on playback. Hearing your own words after a slight delay, I can assure you, is a very disconcerting and disorienting (maybe that's why Tsukada developed his invention, he wanted to be disoriented) experience. * I swear by the beard of Sir Francis Bacon that I shall never loaf in chemistry May the pain of 500ml of the most terrible reagent to be found in the laboratory be inflicted upon my wretched being if I should ever indulge in the transgression of procrastination. So help me Dalton. ** https://www.google.com/search?q=boomeria > > Sort of Pentax content (ergo not OT) - the Medecine Prize gets my vote! > > B > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
