Word: loudnesses
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...night with a vote of no-confidence, the mood in the House of Commons took a jovial turn: The Speaker, Peter Milliken, rose in his black robes to announce that an all-party reception would follow the vote to allow Parliamentarians to "exchange season's greetings." The invitation elicited loud guffaws, because everyone knew it was a dark joke. The only thing seasonal about greetings between the ruling Liberal Party and its main, Conservative opposition has been the frostiness of the exchanges. And now the two sides, with a push from minority parties from the left and right, are launching...
...effectively kicking them off campus—will irreparably damage their college experiences and disrupt the community here. And letting visiting students stay will not cause a housing crunch when other students return from time abroad; visiting students have been living in rooms that were originally deemed too loud and too dangerous...
...learned these songs as I grew up. It was fun to come back to. Do you think opera needs celebrity singers to get younger people interested? [Audiences] want to hear the most thrilling singing. When a human being without amplification makes a sound that is high and loud, it is almost unworldly. To get younger people interested, you also need a sense of theater and spectacle. Titles have made it more accessible. But I think the real future is streaming video over the Internet - then you can be heard not just by 3,000 people in the hall but live...
...produce stathmin. The brain activity of the mutant mice showed that they had difficulties strengthening connections between their nerve cells, raising questions about their ability to properly learn fear. To test this ability, researchers exposed mutant mice and the control group to a small shock immediately after hearing a loud noise. When hearing the same noise 24 hours later, the “knockout” mice froze in place only about 60 percent as long as normal mice. Other tests were conducted to see if the mice had abnormal hearing or pain sensitivities, but this did not appear...
...They're loud...