The total absence of sound outside your body makes you keenly aware of what’s going on inside your body. Your heart pumps. Your lungs inflate and deflate. Your ears buzz. Your blood pulses. In an anechoic chamber, you are one noisy organism. With no reverberation in the room, you have no spatial orientation cues. After about half an hour in the dark, you can become disoriented. Eventually, you might experience visual and aural hallucinations.
The anechoic chamber doesn’t exist as a kind of engineering curiosity. The researchers at Orfield Labs use it to test products such as hearing aids, automotive parts, heart valves, hard drives, and sleep-apnea machines.
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A simple mistake turned one lucky person into a millionaire. In Flint someone said they mistakenly fed a $20 bill into a lotto ticket machine. They meant to only use $10, but decided to buy a Cash for Life ticket anyway.
It turned out to be a big winner. It was worth at least $4.1 million. Workers at the store where the ticket was bought say the recent win has business booming.
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These photos, taken by Father Browne SJ show a glimpse of what things were like before the ship went down.
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Atheists and agnostics, Jews and Mormons are among the highest-scoring groups in a 32-question survey of religious knowledge by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life. On average, Americans got 16 of the 32 questions correct. Atheists and agnostics got an average of 20.9 correct answers. Jews (20.5) and Mormons (20.3). Protestants got 16 correct answers on average, while Catholics got 14.7 questions right.
How will you do on the quiz?
