Listen to What I'm Not Saying

"Please Hear What I'm Not Saying".

Pretending is an art that's second nature with me, but don't be fooled, for God's sake don't be fooled. I give you the impression that I'm secure, that all is sunny and unruffled with me, within as well as without, that confidence is my name and coolness my game, that the water's calm and I'm in command and that I need no one, but don't believe me. My surface may seem smooth but my surface is m...

Listen To Me - Don't Listen To Me: What Communities of Critics Tell Us About Music

Social knowledge and data sharing on the Web takes many forms. So too do the ways people share ideas and opinions. In this paper we examine one such emerging form: the amateur critic. In particular, we examine genius.com, a website which allows its users to annotate and explain the meaning of segments of lyrics in music and other written works. We describe a novel dataset of approximately 700,0...

Sleep talking ? What am I saying?

For the past two weeks, my roommate has been noticing that I talk in my sleep. It's not that it bothers him, because he's usually up at night anyway, but it bothers me. I wonder what I say while I am unaware (he never seems to remember) and I wonder why I just started doing this. Things were quiet around here first semester. Is this kind of thing stress-related? (I've got plenty of that recentl...

I see what you are saying

The motor cortex in the brain tracks lip movements to help with speech perception.

On Saying What You Mean without Meaning What You Say1