Happy Thanksgiving to one and all! Here's a little something to mull over

[JC]

the next time an engineer puts an arbitrary figure on human "hearing":

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20091125/sc_livescience/surpriseyourskincanhear

Just think of all the double-blind testing that will have to be done over!

[Len]

And everyone thought synesthesia was a pathology until now.

The more we learn about people, the more we see that everyone has varying degrees of what we used to think as craziness and sickness. In a couple of thousand years, even I would be considered normal to a degree.

[Grainger49]

I find this interesting.  I had been saying the same thing since the 70s when I took a Perception course in college.  

(200th post!)

P. S. I'm an engineer and don't believe everything I read.  My schooling taught me that.