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You\u2019ve been a band throughout these two separate eras that we\u2019re talking about. How does it feel now to look out into the audience at a Metric show and see more and more cell phones? Is that distracting?
EH: Nah. I\u2019m of the mindset that we are just lucky that we\u2019ve been able to exist through the coolest time and we\u2019ve gotten the best of so many things. We\u2019ve had to adapt. I remember being sad about it, but I\u2019m over it. What are you gonna do?
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Princeton University researchers have come up with a new twist on the mysterious visual phenomenon experienced by humans known as the "uncanny valley." The scientists have found that monkeys sense it too.
The uncanny valley, a phrase coined by a Japanese researcher nearly three decades ago, describes that disquieting feeling that occurs when viewers look at representations designed to be as human-like as possible -- whether computer animations or androids -- but somehow fall short.
Movie-goers may not be familiar with the term, but they understand that it is far easier to love the out-of-proportion cartoon figures in the "The Incredibles," for example, than it is to embrace the more realistic-looking characters in "The Polar Express." Viewers, to many a Hollywood director's consternation, are emotionally unsettled by images of artificial humans that look both realistic and unrealistic at the same time.
In an attempt to add to the emerging scientific literature on the subject and answer deeper questions about the evolutionary basis of communication, Princeton University researchers have found that macaque monkeys also fall into the uncanny valley, exhibiting this reaction when looking at computer-generated images of monkeys that are close but less than perfect representations.
"Increased realism does not necessarily lead to increased acceptance," said Asif Ghazanfar, an assistant professor of psychology and the Princeton Neuroscience Institute, who led the research. It is the first such finding in any animal other than human. The paper, co-written by Shawn Steckenfinger, a research specialist in the Princeton's Department of Psychology, appears in the October Oct. 12 edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The work, according to its authors, is significant because it indicates that there is a biological basis for the uncanny valley and supports theories that propose that the brain mechanisms underlying the uncanny valley are evolutionary adaptations. "These data demonstrate that the uncanny valley effect is not unique to humans and that evolutionary hypotheses regarding its origins are tenable," said Ghazanfar.
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A telephone was pressed against my ear. Dylan's number was dialed, and I was to berate him for at least the third time in an hour. I looked at the phone, the hand holding the phone, then up the arm and shoulder, to the face of the woman I told "Forever and Beyond". It was creased with concern, flushed with frustration and emotions that she was still trying to learn to manage. She WAS managing them, though, and I found it difficult to get caught up in the turmoil of the conflict surrounding us. The person I was half a year ago would feel the need to snap back, to "win". As the dial tone droned on for the fourth time, my mind drifted to my childhood, and a memory of my grandfather on the phone, my grandmother passionately instructing him exactly what to tell the poor son of a bitch on the other end. My grandfather, placid and smiling. I tried not to smile. Ali wouldn't have gotten the humor of it in the moment, and I told myself that I would have to explain it to her later. I don't know if I ever did.