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  • How to Find Your Voice, With Hollywood Vocal Coach Denise Woods

    How to Find Your Voice, With Hollywood Vocal Coach Denise Woods

    This week we’re fine-tuning our instruments with help from Hollywood vocal coach, Denise Woods. Denise has been a professional vocal and dialect coach for over 20 years and has worked with stars like Will Smith, Halle Berry, Rachel Weisz, Jessica Chastain, and Mahershala Ali, to name just a few. Listen to hear Denise gives tips…


  • How To Listen To Stereo Music And Podcasts In One Earbud

    Sometimes you want to play music, podcasts, or audiobooks, but you need one ear open to the world, so you only put one earbud in. But if the song, podcast, or binaural ASMR dub of Steamed Hams is in stereo, then some sounds are only coming out through the earbud that you’re not using. To…


  • Rapid Review: Sonos Beam

    With Sonos doing a great job of making exceptional speakers that fit in almost every situation in your home, three further battlefields remained – becoming a less proprietary option so you can stream music from any device to the speakers without having to go through the Sonos app all the time, smart speakers and home…


  • The True Story Of How Laurel Became Yanny

    The True Story Of How Laurel Became Yanny

    In the beginning, the laurel-or-yanny clip said laurel and nothing but laurel. Here is the original version of the clip, recorded by an opera singer working for Vocabulary.com. Chances are, you’ll hear it as laurel too. Let’s compare it to the viral clip and we’ll see exactly what changed, and why half of us hear…