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Auditory researchers would love to find, test, and document individuals with truly exceptional hearing, such as a greatly extended hearing range. Normal people are nice and all, but everyone wants to find a genetic freak for a really juicy paper. We haven’t found any such people in the past 100 years of testing, so they probably don’t exist. Sorry. We’ll keep looking.
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Some people are exceptionally well trained to hear nuances in sound and music most people don’t even know exist. There was a time in the 1990s when I could identify every major mp3 encoder by sound (back when they were all pretty bad), and could demonstrate this reliably in double-blind testing
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Where did all that legendary Apple love for typography and attention to detail go? Inside Scott Forstall’s leather underpants, that’s where. It’s in there, stuck to his pubic hair, smelling of sweaty cowboy balls.
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