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• From thatsinteres

  21:38:33 Wednesday Feb 06 2013

  In Poland, American shows aren’t dubbed by actors mimicking the original, English-speaking actors. A lektor, the Polish term for voice-over artist, simply reads all the dialogue in Polish. While the lektor drones on, viewers hear the original English soundtrack faintly in the background. The approach is popular in Poland, where viewers still feel comfortable with a style deeply rooted in the country’s communist past. Lektors, traditionally men with husky voices, pride themselves on their utterly emotionless delivery, a craft honed through thousands of hours in recording studios.

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• From thatsinteres

  18:14:00 Thursday Jan 17 2013

  Such faith in technology in the absence of critical analysis or empirical support is an example of “techno-fundamentalism,” the belief that we can, should, and will invent a machine that will fix the problems the last machine caused.

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• From thatsinteres

  14:29:45 Wednesday Nov 07 2012

  Now an entirely new organ has been developed, which …translates music into corresponding odors

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• From thatsinteres

  14:27:27 Wednesday Nov 07 2012

  most odor-cued memories were located to the first decade of life (

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• From thatsinteres

  10:10:47 Wednesday Nov 07 2012

  [The Anti-Camera] coerces our mind into recollecting the essence of a moment – something less tangible than an image can capture.

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• The thrill engineers (on the science of roller coasters)

  22:36:01 Friday Nov 02 2012

  Scientists from the University of Nottingham recently turned the Alton Towers amusement park, in Staffordshire, into an open-air lab. They rigged up over 100 volunteers with equipment that measured everything from their heart rate to the minute muscle movements in their faces as they rode on the park’s rides. The data produced is now being sifted to uncover what riders really do, or don’t, enjoy. 

  also:

  the illusion of danger is vital

  From Focus Magazine. By Andy Ridgway. No publication date.

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• From thatsinteres

  21:27:00 Friday Nov 02 2012

  an accessible laboratory for scent innovation” in Los Angeles, opening in March 2013. How convenient.

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• From thatsinteres

  21:23:33 Friday Nov 02 2012

  ode is a wellbeing product [for people with dementia] that creates the link between…scent & its effect on our relationship with food.

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• Dough Globe

  15:12:12 Tuesday Oct 30 2012

  foundry2012:

  It was Foundry’s last few days together at Mint last week, and it was a very busy time, finishing things off and waiting for prototypes to arrive back. But it was also full of excitement because we got to show everyone what we have been up to over the last 3 months.

  
  So without further ado…

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• Scratch & Sniff NYC

  14:02:36 Thursday Oct 25 2012

  there’s a lovely section here about the relationship between smells & maps. Here Nicola Twilly describes the theory behind her installation, Scratch N’ Sniff NYC:

  Scratch ‘N Sniff NYC consists of two maps, twelve smells, thousands of scratch ‘n sniff stickers and a variable number of linguistic descriptors. A “majority preference” map on the left-hand side extrapolates from Vosshall’s “olfactory demography” to show the dominant odour perception framework in each neighbourhood. Next to it on the right, a crowd-sourced “personal favourite” map will ask each exhibition visitor to position their own smell biases and understanding within the city. It’s hardly a scientific study, but I can’t wait to see the different patterns that emerge over the course of the exhibition.

  With links to the Smell Lab at Rockefeller University.

  HT @kthread

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