Word: rhythms
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...study published in the July 27 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) shows that orangutans keep their footing - and their fingering - in the trees by moving with an irregular, offbeat rhythm that effectively counters the shaking caused by their considerable weight. "Orangutans rock flexible tree trunks from side to side with increasing magnitude until they can cross gaps in the [tree] canopy," says Susannah Thorpe, a bioscientist at the University of Birmingham in England and the lead author of the PNAS paper...
...fictionalizing than processing events at home? Doesn’t retrospection add ambiguity, even to conversations that didn’t have a language barrier? Aren’t we in the habit of corralling observations into metaphors, even when we aren’t trying to discover the rhythm of a foreign place? Don’t we simplify un-mined personalities of even the people we know until they’re stock characters for our unwritten autobiographies...
...Delivered," which he has kept ever since. His taxi's dashboard is decorated with stickers of Obama's face. And during the hours he spends chugging through Bamako's streets, he has created his own jingles, which he belts out - windows rolled down, fist pumping the air to the rhythm - with a grin on his face: "O-bama! O-bama! Nôtre frère! Nôtre ami!" (See pictures of Obama's family tree...
...says Zipes, "looks like a bag of squiggly worms, totally uncoordinated, disorganized, with no effective pumping." In a normal heart, the pumping chambers beat 70 times a minute or so, while an organ in cardiac arrest can spasm anywhere from 400 to 600 times per minute. Unless a regular rhythm can be restored, brain death and ultimately death can result...
...think they never appealed to black Americans in the same way? It's about rhythm. In all of pop music up to the arrival of the Beatles, whenever we talk about a hot new trend - from ragtime to jazz to swing to R&B to rock 'n' roll - what we're talking about is new dance rhythm coming in. The British bands were modern in their harmonies and songwriting, their song forms were very interesting and they did new things with instruments. But their rhythms were steadily old-fashioned...