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Maybe there is already a word for this phenomenon but what I've coined this term for is cultural works in which the writer/musician/director etc. describes the history of their interest in a particular genre using that genre e.g. tunes in...

Is listening to music on a 'good system' important to you? What is your home setup and do you plan to improve it?

Does anyone else have any examples of TV series or films making a similarly postmodern move through the medium of baked goods?

Trailers give too much away. Which trailers have given a good feel for the film without giving anything away? In other words, which trailer gives the largest value for f/i where f is Feel and i is Information?

https://openpsychometrics.org/tests/OSRI/ The OSRI measures two scales. Scores are adjusted so the average is 100. Masculinity 99 Femininity 96 Sandra Bem's theory was that both masculinity and femininity were good and the ideal was high levels of both, which she called androgyny. Your...

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Do you think we have it?

Pale nimbus, friendless I did err A sad puff, skystuck o’er the scene When suddenly I spy a burr A bunch of lily-pals serene Fast by lake, beneath the willow All the e’entide gust does billow Strung on as do the garland lights That sparkle under midnight’s roof Self-neighb’ring in unending...

Any manual labourers on the forum? What's it like?

This is a safe space in which we fire self-produced diss tracks at each other without anyone getting killed further down the line.

Anyone willing to back the Tories' rationale when we soon get locked down for a mild cold?

Need help to build a list of the best in each genre: garage: Todd Edwards rock: Oasis gabba: The DJ Producer skullstep: Lucio De Rimanez psytrance: Shpongle rave: The Prodigy prog metal: Opeth heavy metal: Iron Maiden dub, lounge: Fat Freddie's Drop jazz: Miles Davis post-punk: The Police...

Earthing (grounding) refers to the human body being in contact with the surface of the Earth by barefoot exposure outdoors or using special indoor systems connected to the Earth. Previous studies have showed multiple beneficial effects as a result of such contact, including better sleep...

Has anybody here got any experience of launching a product/business etc? Have come up with an idea and a friend of mine, who is an entrepreneur, has offered me the chance to 'lead a team' (of ppl he knows) to take it to market. :eek:

I've cracked it. :cool: 1) the first bit is the hardest: work through a basic primer in the target language - older books are better as there is more of an emphasis on grammar. This is just to get a feel for the basic structure and to be able to spot verb tenses, conjunctions and prepositions...

Early to bed, early to rise, or the opposite?

Never been to one of these before but might make an exception tomorrow: Suppose that humans succeed in understanding just what it is about the human brain that makes us smart, and manage to port that over to silicon based digital computers. Suppose we succeed in creating a machine that was...

If you were to do a Continental Philosophy PhD, what topic might you direct your energies towards?

Are there any acoustic instrument-only bands that play music intended to sound electronic? Just realised that this question might lead to some really godawful music involving jazz drummers playing drum and bass and beatboxers. Abort! Abort!