Curling Open House in Norfolk Connecticut

For folks in Dutchess County in NY, or Western Connecticut, that have been enjoying Curling, you should know that the Norfolk Curling Club is running an Open House this weekend. Today’s events are over, but tomorrow between 1 and 5 pm you can go and check out the sport.  We did this back in 2006 during the last Olympics.

As you can see, you will get to throw stones, which is just awesome.  This picture is of Pyg, one of the members of our Poughkeepsie contingent that came out out for the open house in 2006, we ended up taking a 2 week course, which was brilliant.  They seem to be running things a bit earlier this time around, I suspect in hopes of getting more play in for people before they close down the clubhouse for the year.

If you have any interest in Curling, you should check it out.

Audio Perception of Distorted Speech

Listening to the sine-wave speech sound again produces a very
different percept of a fully intelligible spoken sentence. This
dramatic change in perception is an example of “perceptual insight” or
pop-out. We have argued that this form of pop-out is an example of a
top-down perceptual process produced by higher-level knowledge and
expectations concerning sounds that can potentially be heard as speech:

There are audio samples at their website which demonstrate this.  It’s really neat to hack your perception.