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Secrets of Beatboxing Revealed By MRI
united_notions writes "An international team from UCSD and Philips Research have published a paper (article paywalled; extensive free related resources at UCS here) in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, showing the results of real-time magnetic resonance imaging conducted on a beatboxing performer. The authors make interesting comparisons to sounds in many minority languages around the world (such as the 'click' consonants in many African languages); they also show how beatboxing sounds can be represented using the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)."
Step 1, spend about a decade getting a PhD.
Step 2, work for another, more senior researcher for a decade, building up credit in academic research.
Step 3, spend another decade writing grant proposals and doing research that ties into others' research or acts to confirm or refute others' research.
Step 4, write this grant proposal and begin this study
Step 5, profit!
Don't worry that it only took 30 years to get there...
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
I didn't even know that people cared about "beatboxing". What's next, revealing the secrets of twerking and queefing?
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Rather you than me frankly.