For example, you cite effects on discriminating phonemes, prosody, and emotional cues (I assume like intonation and volume). These are a far, far cry from the levels of processing needed to, as you say, attend to and process facts and details "in a group meeting where the manager is talking about information."
...now that I look back, yeah, there were times when it really helped.
"Then again, I'm no scientist :)"
"It depends on the type of input: speech is heard 'better' with the right ear, if the characteristics to be processed are those connected to the sounds of a given language (i.e phonemes), whereas the left ear might have an advantage in discriminating non-phonemic aspects of speech (i.e. prosody, emotional cues,…
Chewing peppermint can improve sustained attention:
Well Hollywood hasn't had an original thought in years, and they already ruined Starsky and Hutch, so, why not?
[Just replying here in general, not so much specifically to your post]
That's weird. Where I live, the sunsets happen once a day.
Or more riders than Chicago, but fewer than NYC - depending on the source/definition of types of rail, apparently.
It's the second-busiest rapid transit system in the US, just a bit fewer riders than the article-praised Chicago. So apparently it isn't that worthless for getting around the city.
WHAT? You can get anywhere (except Georgetown) on it! Where the heck are you going that isn't Metro convenient?
An F-15C fighter jet flying out of a Washington, DC-area airport has reportedly crashed near the town of Deerfield, Virginia, according to the local News-Leader. UPDATE
"An F-15C fighter jet flying out of a Washington, DC-area airport..."
EIGHT??? Jeez, who am I, Martha Stewart?
I still don't understand why we would petition the White House about a legislative matter.
I get what you're saying. Beetle should be off the list, then, too, by that standard.
I just assumed Tudor meant it was approved by Queen Elizabeth.
Holy buckets! Nice to see a somewhat progressive ad way back then! Businesswoman buying a car? That's a foreign concept to today's salesmen.
Indeed. WTF? "No, don't land here in open space, away from cars and everything else - shoehorn that thing in between the cars, with the wires on your approach!"