Rita Hayworth and Charles Quigley in a promotional shot for The Shadow (1937)
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Music to Our Ears: How Headphones Changed Our World
If you are reading this on a computer, there is a 50% chance that you are wearing, or are within arm’s reach of, a pair of headphones or earbuds.
To visit a modern office place is to walk into a room with a dozen songs playing simultaneously but to hear none of them. Up to half of workers listen to music on their headphones, and the vast majority thinks it makes us better at our jobs. In survey after survey, we report with confidence that music makes us happier, better at concentrating, and more productive.
Science says we’re full of it. Listening to music hurts our ability to recall other stimuli, and any pop song — loud or soft — reduces overall performance for both extraverts and introverts. A Taiwanese study linked music with lyrics to lower scores on concentration tests for college students, and other research have shown music with words scrambles our brains’ verbal-processing skills. “As silence had the best overall performance it would still be advisable that people work in silence,” one report dryly concluded.
If headphones are so bad for productivity, why do so many people at work have headphones? And why are our bosses letting us drive ourselves to distraction?
Source: The Atlantic
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Revere T-2200 4 track Stereo Tape Recorder 1960
Citizens Get Conflicting Messages About Their Right to Record
“A mobile phone is a First Amendment device, and our right to connect with people and record public events is fundamental to a functioning democracy. But we still have a long way to go to ensure those rights are protected.”
What I Was Arrested For: The Performances That Got Lenny Bruce Busted
It’s a good record to have around for laughs, among other reasons, because Lenny Bruce was funny in juxtaposition to the times which helped to do him in. If you know about that era, that climate, it’s very funny; and if you don’t because you are too young, or old and just turning on for the first time, or just fucking stupid, you will probably relate better to people after hearing it. — Leonard Brown, The Staff (1971)
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Dame Julie Andrews-Edwards… she rocks in Hawaii.
— Look magazine, December 28 of 1965.
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The Ladybirds performing in Bergen, Norway (1968)
Cozy Dog sign
Springfield, IL
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