Come here often? I SAID, COME HERE OFTEN? “In other experiments, anurans (frogs and toads) living near highway noise could not determine the direction of sound sources as well as those living in quieter places,” reports Ronald Larkin in Illinois Natural History Survey Reports (January/February). “The males near highways altered their calling and spaced themselves differently when attempting to attract females. We obtained similar results by playing recorded highway noise from loudspeakers,” thus verifying “that it was the noise generated by the highway traffic and not other kinds of pollution or indirect causes that affected the anurans.”
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Most in need of getting a life. Why do workers spend work time playing games on the office computer? “We have deadlines for most things in the business world,” writes Alfred Tantillo of Elmhurst in Chicago Computer Currents (January), “and, it seems, the deadlines have no real value for, once attained, the work sits idly while someone else reviews it, decides upon it, and passes it on for further approval. The speed of the info-link is steadily increasing and yet the length of the decision-chain continues to grow….In that aspect, a diversion such as DOOM II provides what is sorely missing in business life: An Answer NOW! You’re either successful or you’re not. You’re either alive or you’re dying or dead.”
Well, yes. Announced topic of a discussion to be led by Rabbi Daniel Leifer at Evanston’s Jewish Reconstructionist Congregation on February 24: “Feminist God Language: So, You Like God Better Now?”
“Can a viable, vibrant work of audio art be made by actively subverting ideas like wholeness, continuity, and unity? Let’s find out,” says a brochure from the Experimental Sound Studio on North Paulina, describing a spring class, “Interruption as Artistic Practice,” to be taught by associate director Lou Mallozzi. “Related topics like interference, the value of mistakes, and invasion will also be attended to….Limited to eight interrupters.”
