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California parrot that vanished 4 years returns speaking Spanish…

(Reuters) – The owner of a parrot that spoke English with a British accent says the bird went missing for four years, only to return speaking Spanish and asking for someone named Larry, a Southern California newspaper reported on Monday.

Darren Chick told the Daily Breeze newspaper that he doesn’t know where African grey parrot Nigel has been for four years but that aside from the language switch, the bird is doing fine back at home…

Un museo en la Universidad de Cornell donde se guardan todo tipo de sonidos de nuestro planeta. Suena ocioso, pero si pensamos que muchos de los audios que guardan ya estan extintos y solo pueden escucharse ahí, la idea es tan fascinante como nostálgica…

What if you could build a radio so powerful that you could detect sounds made long ago?

This, obviously, is impossible, but that’s not what Guglielmo Marconi, one of radio’s early pioneers, believed.

“Marconi became convinced that sound never dies,” Nate DiMeo, of the podcast The Memory Palace, tells it.

In his 60s, having suffered a series of heart attacks, Marconi dreamed “of a device that would let him hear lost sounds, let him tap into these eternal frequencies. He would tell people that if he got it right, he could hear Jesus of Nazareth giving the Sermon on the Mount.”

DiMeo continues, “At the end of his life he could sit in his piazza in Rome, and hear everything that was ever said to him or about him. He could relive every toast and testimonial. And we all could – hear everything: Hear Caesar. Hear Shakespeare give an actor a line-reading. Hear my grandmother introduce herself to my grandfather at a nightclub in Rhode Island. Hear someone tell you that they love you, that first time they told you they loved you. Hear everything, forever.”

You can listen to DiMeo tell the story here…

http://bit.ly/Yzw67F

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