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Paolo Cardini: Forget multitasking, try monotasking People aren’t just cooking anymore -- they’re cooking, texting, talking on the phone, watching YouTube and uploading photos of the awesome meal they just made. Designer Paolo Cardini questions the efficiency of our multitasking world and makes the...

if ya ever get it sorted, looks like Mike brought in the whole crowd

Mike Oldfield~Voyager 06-She Moves Through the Fair

the "no tuning slide flutes" often have a long tenon.
The tenon is in the same place as the slide would be and serves the same purpose.

Works fine, within all of the parameters of a tuning slide.

Munir Virani: Why I love vultures As natural garbage collectors, vultures are vital to our ecosystem -- so why all the bad press? Why are so many in danger of extinction? Raptor biologist Munir Virani says we need to pay more attention to these unique and misunderstood creatures, to change our perc...

Janine Shepherd: A broken body isn’t a broken person Cross-country skier Janine Shepherd hoped for an Olympic medal -- until she was hit by a truck during a training bike ride. She shares a powerful story about the human potential for recovery. Her message: you are not your body, and giving up old ...

Linguist Makes Sensational Claim: English Is a Scandinavian Language ScienceDaily (Nov. 27, 2012) — "Have you considered how easy it is for us Norwegians to learn English?" asks Jan Terje Faarlund, professor of linguistics at the University of Oslo. "Obviously there are many English ...

Making Music Together Connects Brains ScienceDaily (Nov. 29, 2012) — Anyone who has ever played in an orchestra will be familiar with the phenomenon: the impulse for one's own actions does not seem to come from one's own mind alone, but rather seems to be controlled by the coordinated activity of t...

maybe it's like sticking a spoon to the end of your nose.
Some people can do it all of the time, some none of the time & and the rest sometimes.

still, it makes one wonder how big LynnB's sample size is.