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Written by Dr. Samuel Centralia, Ph.D., D.D.S., Esq.
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Friday, 24 October 2008 |
A few years ago, when everyone was carrying a cell phone in one pocket and a digital music player in the other, it was clear what had to happen next. And it did. And the iPhone and its competitors hit the market. And it was good.
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Written by Dr. Samuel Centralia, Ph.D., D.D.S., Esq.
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Friday, 17 October 2008 |
A report out of Europe this week warns that millions of children and teenagers could suffer permanent hearing loss from setting the headphone volume on their digital music players too loud. This is a familiar warning, of course, but now there are some hard numbers coming in, and they're pretty scary.
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Written by Dr. Samuel Centralia, Ph.D., D.D.S., Esq.
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Wednesday, 24 September 2008 |
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I'm prone to a certain paranoia anyway, but after enduring all these terrifying headlines on the economy -- and recently reading a collection of Thomas Friedman essays -- I'm becoming convinced that unchecked capitalism is going to kill us. Seriously, I'm becoming a real communist over here. I've even busted out my old Mao jacket. Still fits, too.
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Written by Dr. Samuel Centralia, Ph.D., D.D.S., Esq.
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Friday, 19 September 2008 |
Among my many, many past professional incarnations, I once spent several years laboring in that most rarified of academic environs -- the university music department. When the bottom fell out of the international espionage market in the 1990s, I fell back on my musical training and ducked back onto campus for a few semesters. If you ever want evidence of the essential meaningless of existence, there's nothing like teaching viola to uppity sophomores, I'll tell you.
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