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...Even taste sensations can travel through the brain and loop back to muscles. Tasting a nutrient, he says, stimulates an area of the brain responsible for muscle reflexes, so that a patient with a liver condition can swirl bile salts on his tongue and feel his pectorals strengthen...
Even taste sensations can travel through the brain and loop back to muscles. Tasting a nutrient, he says, stimulates an area of the brain responsible for muscle reflexes, so that a patient with a liver condition can swirl bile salts on his tongue and feel his pectorals strengthen...
...powerful amplifier. Though theaters are required to lend listening systems to hard-of-hearing customers, Bernstein has purchased her own infrared unit. She's also bought a personal fm unit for lectures: the speaker wears a small microphone, which transmits via radio waves to a receiver connected to a loop Bernstein wears around her neck, which sends the signal to the telecoils in her hearing aids. She uses a caption decoder on her television, attends captioned theater performances and asks people to e-mail her messages rather than leave them on her telephone answering machine. Perhaps the most difficult listening...
...over copper has a typical download speed of 56 kilobits--or 56,000 bits--per second, at which rate it would take nearly 10 minutes to download a three-minute song. By contrast, a modem connected to a TV cable that feeds into a fiber-optic loop could claim that tune in under a minute. Yet even today only about 6% of U.S. households have cable modems or digital subscriber lines, which carry compressed data over copper wires at broadband speed. But that hasn't stopped carriers from blanketing the country with high-bandwidth networks...
Saying that relations with Harvard had deteriorated to a new low, councillors chastised University officials for the monetary disparity and blasted them for leaving Cambridge's elected officials out of the loop...