June 2008
2 posts
The Filter →
Peter Gabriel’s music, movie, tv and video recommendation site is now in a public beta. There are lots of interesting ways to tweak your personalized filter, the recommendation engine behind the service.
For music, songs are limited to 30 seconds, so unlike a service like Pandora, the Filter is focusing on just recommending music you may not own.
Its probably too early to tell, but as they...
BBC NEWS | Health | Smoking link to hearing loss... →
Dr Erik Fransen, of the University of Antwerp in Belgium, one of the lead researchers, said that the ability to pick out high frequency sounds was damaged in smokers and the obese, although to not as great an extent as those exposed to very loud noise in the workplace.
He said: “The hearing loss is proportional to how much you smoke and your body mass index (BMI).
“It starts getting...