- SYMBOLS.com -- encyclopedia of Western signs and ideograms (via del.icio.us)
- Nonverbal Dictionary of Gestures Signs Body Language (ibid.)
- Memes, and Related Ideas about the Evolution of Culture (ibid.)
- Hot Tub Monkeys Offer Eye on Nonhuman Culture -- When Japanese macaques began receiving food handouts more than 50 years ago— freeing them from the daily grind of foraging for food—they invented "cultural activities" to fill their newly acquired leisure time (via Anthropology in the News)
- Left-handedness common in Ice Age (ibid.)
- Did Neanderthals breed with humans? (ibid.)
- Human brain began evolving early (ibid.)
- MSNBC - How your brain handles love and pain -- Scanners reveal mechanisms behind empathy and placebo effect
- Meditation for clarinet and (optional) signal processing (1989)
- Sound Collage Lowercase Sound / Micro Sound / Sound Collage / Noise / Sound Art / Field Recordings / Sound Injury
- Beams cut need for cancer surgery -- Scientists are perfecting a 'virtual scalpel' which uses ultrasound beams to kill cancer cells
- Darpa Offers No Food for Thought -- the Pentagon is looking into ways for GIs to fight for up to five days without eating a single meal
- The Complete Newspeak Dictionary (via Michael Douglas)
- BBC News Quiz: Are you a cynic? (via plasticbag)