Put That In Your Pitch Pipe And Smoke It
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MJ had perfect pitch and everything turned out great for him.
Perfect pitch – the ability to identify or sing a note without any context – is a pretty rare gift. But of course, perfect pitch and five dollars will get you five dollars worth of scratch cards. It’s like being able to multiply and divide huge numbers in your head. Try a calculator, nerd. My iPhone has a tuner with perfect pitch and I drop that shit on the ground all the time.
Ok, perhaps I’m a bit jealous. But I might not have to be for long. All I have to do is take drugs. Or so says this study, which has lead to the development of a drug that gives adults the ability to cultivate perfect pitch by inhibiting histone-deacetylase or HDAC. They tried it on mice and then on humans, and it seems to work. Hopefully the adults won’t go all Flowers For Algernon on us – further tests pending. (h/t 405)
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