Life in a Northern Virginia suburb of Washington, D.C. B.M.A.T.C., and Etruscan typewriter erasers. Blogged by David Gorsline.
Smith and Wolfe of the University of New South Wales use bioacoustics to explain why the words are hard to understand in grand opera. Their own site has a copy of their published article from Nature, and sound files that demonstrate the effect they've described.
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