Word: stuttering
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People who stutter--and there are 3 million of them in the U.S.--tend to do better when they speak in unison, as in a group reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. That's why a new hearing-aid-like device called the SpeechEasy seems to help. Invented by researchers at East Carolina University in Greenville, N.C., it's a tiny, programmable earpiece that alters the pitch of the speaker's voice and echoes it back into the ear. This "choral effect" tricks the brain into thinking someone else is talking and encourages fluent speech. In initial tests, the SpeechEasy worked...
Fortunately, Timbaland rises to the challenge with some of his most potent work to date. Looking to old-school predecessors for inspiration, he ditches his trademark angular stutter-step to anchor the beats in thunderous boom-bap, charging them with a newfound immediacy. The low-end artillery in “Funky Fresh Dressed” sounds made for a gargantuan boom box, and “Slide’s” ominous boom reels in the body like a black hole. Though technology coats the beats in platinum, the classic hip-hop samples laced throughout the album lend...
...that's the problem: no matter what they do, academics always ruin sex by refusing to stutter. They intellectualize it until you realize why they spend so much time alone "writing dissertations." Museums are designed to illuminate the inanimate: mummies, Renaissance paintings, Richard Nixon. Flash-freezing the ephemeral is too difficult. If you think too long about kissing, it starts to seem like a ridiculous impossibility. (It also means you're very, very lonely.) And, honestly, that's the problem: the Museum of Sex undermines the real purpose of museums - which is to pick up women. Coming up with...
...display, and says she has been impressed by how thorough and serious the curators have been. "But I know they have lewd interests," she says. "It's just hidden. You can tell when you talk to them. They like to keep a stiff upper lip because otherwise they'll stutter...
...Chancellor may also calculate that telling Brussels where to get off will garner him votes in September as well. It may or may not. Meanwhile, who is going to take care of Europe? For decades, Germany was the engine of integration. If that engine begins to stutter, neither France nor Britain is going to provide the push. In fact, they must be quite happy to watch mighty Germany play brakeman in the caboose...