Tag: conditioning

How to Be a Tourist

Paris in the summer is hot and not really built for heat. Air-conditioning is rare, as is ice, and the only cold things we regularly experience are the looks from Parisians after confirming their suspicions that we are Americans. Still, even sweaty this city earns its reputation as beautiful and anc...

The Neurological Conditioning of Sound

Remember that time when you were alone in that quiet house for the first time and heard a creepy sound? Maybe it was a windy day and the floor creaked and the window bellowed. That sound you heard, was clearly the logical result of wind pushing into a creaky wooden structure, yet the audit...