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Real supermen?
I watched a TV show last night that talked about how there are people with special skills. She spoke of: 1. The Iceman: that ran a half marathon barefoot and almost naked in Alaska (snow and all). His ability to warm his body was his "power." Most people would have died doing what He did, but his body somehow protect themselves from the cold. 2. A blind man who never had sight of his life painting landscapes. A great artist! His ability was tested by having a particular building is not to draw effectively drawn up since the Renaissance, he is the second person to have learned in the history of good! 3. A lady whose senses merged. Sounds made ribbons of color in her vision, they have a special taste in her mouth on the basis of certain sounds. Neuropsychologists not sure how. 4. Scientists are coming up with a way to harvest human organs in animals by injecting the animal fetus. What would this mean for the future of mankind?
1.) ICEM commeth - and will the whole, half-naked people running through the snow covered expances is a permanent phenomenon in southern Argentina more than 200 years ago. The Europeans were very shocked to see native (South) Americans who could stand such low temperatures with so little clothing. These people are now extinct, but the people in general are unique in having primates Her first real "blubber". Unlike other apes, humans have a subcutaneous fat layer that can isolate us as the temperatures drop. Our closest relatives neandrethals lived in northern Europe during the last ice age. They were accustomed to temperatures exceeding 30 degrees below zero with nothing more then animal skins and campfires to warm. 2.) Blinded by the light - or not: When people have a loose sense, a meaning other than that develops to compensate. The blind tendency to excessively develop sensitive fingertips. With them they can "read" braile letters as soon as people can scan text. The concievable the artist had a clear picture of what a landscape looked. In short, it's a cardboard box stacked on another. The boxes are on the horizon. Even chimps can paint a pair of rectangles. The blind painter was through his sense of touch to the dimensions of what he had to set painting. Acrylic paint dries quickly and the height difference would his idea to the place where the paint was applied. He also a good mental picture of what looked like trees and buildings, and could easily be added to the composition. One thing he could do was distinguish colors. He had to know in advance that leaves are green and the sky is "blue" He had to know where the green and blue paint was. Given the opposing colors and told not to hand, he would have painted perefect photographic negative. 3.) Got mescaline? Psycoactive drugs work by interfering with sensory processing in the brains. To avoid the brains from being overloaded with the huge amount of raw senattion flooding is very much selective attention is concerned. It achieves this by immediate cessation of the stimulus trajectory once registers. This allows the brains to process the next signal. Drugs such as mescaline and LSD interferes with this process by feeding back the feeling brains. This creates Loops of sensation, sensory and individual networks can be so overwhelmed they begin to spill over into other networks designed to handle other types entrances. Hence the experience of sound as vivid ribbons of color. The novel "Just ask Alice" is the diary of a teenager who experimented with LSD. Carlos was a Castenita anthropoligist who studied Native American rituals. Both authors provide detailed narritives their hallucinogenic experiences. 4.) Pork - the other right meat: a special breed of hog dwarf is routinely used in medical research because its organs are almost the size of human organs. More than this, Hog tissue has many similarities with human tissue, in terms immuniological. The competition is so good live pig skin is an effective dressing for human burn victims. The tissue was finally rejected, but long not as fast as all other known species. Some of the first heart transplant the hearts of other animals. Baboons and pigs were used. The hearts were quickly rejected, but the cardiologists gave valuable insight into heart surgery. Future human organ donations could include a number of cloning organs grown from their own recepientient cells.
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Faith $6.43 No Description Available.Genre: Popular MusicMedia Format: Compact DiskRating: Release Date: 8-AUG-1988... |
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Shure Green Bullet 520DX Dynamic Harmonica Microphone $118.99 Contoured to fit comfortably in the palm of your hand, the Model 520DX "Green Bullet" microphone produces the unique sound that has made it a legend among harmonica players. The 520DX features a volume control knob at the base of the microphone that allows users to make adjustments to suit their needs during live performance. An attached cable with a standard 1/4-inch plug allows the microphone to... |
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Organ Sounds for Worship $15 By Fred Bock. For organ. Sacred. 3-staff. Book. Published by Sacred Music Press |
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Sacred Sounds from George Shearing $18 By George Shearing. For organ. Sacred. 3-staff. Book. Published by Sacred Music Press |
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Nord C2 Combo Organ $2999 The Nord C2 Combo Organ includes a B3 tone wheel organ, a Vox Continental, a Farfisa, and a beautiful baroque pipe organ. This makes the C2 an extremely versatile electric organ, giving not only rock organ players a new palette of sounds, but also making it the perfect instrument to use in churches, concert and congregation halls, or any other venue where a professional pipe organ is critical.The pipe organFrom the golden age of organ building, Nord has carefully chosen a baroque organ with a devastatingly beautiful sound and wide range of expression for the C2 pipe organ portion. Using a cutting-edge sampling technique, no efforts have been spared in producing the richest and most varied sound palette for the pipe organ player.The Nord C2 pipe organ is built upon two basic types of organ pipes; flue pipes and reed pipes. The flue pipes have a softer timbre and the reed pipes a more nasal tone quality. For each keyboard division the player can choose from different sets of pipes and stops to produce different timbres. The C2's setup of stops make up a well-balanced blend of tonal qualities capable of expressing the most dramatic music in addition to conveying the subtlest of organ pieces.Stops and couplersIn the pipe organ each manual has its own sound: the Great division being the part of the organ with the majestic sound, whereas the Swell has a more mellow tonal quality. The Couplers are used to activate combinations of different stops from both manuals, so that pressing keys on one manual also connects stops from the other manual or pedal. The Pedal division has three bass stops, which the user can choose to play from the lower manual by attaching the Nord Pedal Keys 27 (optional accessory), or by attaching a 30-note classic digital organ pedal (optional accessory).DispositionThe disposition has the fundamental tonal character of a baroque organ. The total number of stops is 21; 9 stops for every manual and 3 pedal stops (of which one is a combined Subbas 16 and Fagot 16). In addition to the three unison couplers usually found in two manual organs, the C2 electric organ also features three octave couplers and a special coupler that adds the Pedal to the leftmost note played on the Great manual.Swell pedal and tremulantOne of the crucial ingredients for creating a vivid sound is the swell pedal. In the C2, this functions exactly as in the real-life models, giving the player intimate control over volume and dynamics of the swell manual. Another indispensable aid to make the pipe organ sound even more vibrant is the tremulant. This is a function that basically gives small and very rapid variations in volume, thereby causing the sound to tremulate. The Nord C2 provides two speeds, each with three variable depths.It's not only about the music, it's also about the playerNot only does this Nord organ provide an extremely well balanced set of pipes, stops, and couplers, but it has also kept the setup close to reality for the pipe organ player to find |