THIS is TRUE by Randy Cassingham A weekly column of oddities from around the world

HUH? Researchers at the California Institute of Technology say that the brain can recognize and decode speech even when it’s played backward. “When you distort speech, it distorts certain aspects, but other parameters are still able to convey the message,” says Caltech biologist Kourosh Saberi. For the study, spoken sentences were recorded, chopped into small pieces, switched backward, and re-spliced into sentences again. Test subjects had “no problem” understanding the distorted sentences, researchers say. “What this tells us is that speech is quite robust,” says University of Wisconsin’s Prof. Ray Kent, who studies communicative disorders. “Somehow the information is preserved or at least recoverable to us even when it’s played backwards.” (AP) …Llubtihs.

COUNT ON IT: A joint study by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Service Hospitalier Frederic Joliot in France have found that math computation tasks are spread among different parts of the brain, rather than centered in one special calculation area. Using brain imaging, they found that approximations are processed by the part of the brain involved in visual, spatial and analogical processes, but rote arithmetic, such as memorizing multiplication tables, takes place in the brain area responsible for verbal tasks. (UPI) …While basic concepts like “2+2″ are located in the fingers.

FISH STORY: U.S. National Swimming Team coach Jonty Skinner says he has the secret for teaching Olympic swimming hopefuls how to swim better: study fish. “A normal human being would say the fish is flapping its tail and creating propulsion,” Skinner said. “Actually, it’s not. It’s the total movement of the body.” Not bad advice, says West Chester (Penn.) University zoology professor Frank E. Fish. He cautions that humans can’t move like fish because, for instance, their knees don’t bend both ways, but humans can learn from fish by learning to be more streamlined, Fish says. Skinner says he got the idea of studying fish because “these creatures have evolved for millennia.” (AP) …Luckily, that kind of thinking hasn’t inspired Boeing engineers to study birds.

PART AND PARCEL: British sculptor Anthony-Noel Kelly says he “was a little naive and I don’t think I would do it again, but I don’t regret it.” Regret what? He was convicted of stealing body parts — to make molds so that his sculptures would be more realistic — and sentenced to nine months in jail. He paid a laboratory assistant to steal the parts for him, then took them home on the back of his motorbike. “They were wrapped up in black bags,” he said. “Every now and again there would be a part of a limb or a torso.” But, he added, “There was nothing strange… about it.” (Reuters) …That’s obviously a matter of opinion.

BRIEF MOMENT OF SILENCE: Heinz Berendes has died. The renowned pediatrician and epidemiologist spent a 38-year career at the National Institutes of Health, doing “groundbreaking work” on contraceptives. He was 74. (AP) …He is survived by his wife, but no children.

CREAMED: Derick Jones, 32, has been arrested after allegedly robbing a convenience store in Monroe, La. His weapon of choice? Police say he threw a cup of hot coffee on the clerk, who suffered minor burns. Jones has been charged with, yes, armed robbery. (AP) …At least he could have used it to rob McDonald’s, where they would be properly armed to fight back.

BOTTOMS UP: Jose Lopez woke up with a strange feeling. The Honduran fisherman slept off a hangover in a field after drinking a liter of aguardiente, a locally produced liquor. When he came out of his stupor he found that somehow a 4.4-inch bottle had been pushed up his rectum. “The foreign matter was stuck in his large intestine. We can’t figure out why it rose that high instead of descending,” said a surgeon in San Pedro Sula, who removed the bottle two weeks later. “I felt it moving up or down when I walked or changed my position,” Lopez said, adding he has no idea how it got there. “It was like being pregnant.” (Reuters) …It could have been worse: he could have had to give birth to it.

YOU’LL WANT TO COME BACK AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN: There is yet another museum being dedicated in Washington, D.C., area. The Drug Enforcement Administration has established a “museum on addiction” at its Arlington, Va., headquarters. In includes displays of weapons used on both sides of the drug wars and historical documents dating back as far as the Civil War, such as early autopsy reports of people who died of overdoses. (AP) …It will be funded by snack bar sales, which are “expected to be unusually high” for a museum, a DEA official said.

DON’T TRY THIS AT HOME: Britain’s Tesco supermarket chain claims that “an increasing number of customers” has been asking which of their pies are best for throwing. To answer the question, it has ordered its staff to test store-made cream and fruit pies by tossing them into each other’s faces. “Obviously we prefer our customers to eat cream cakes rather than fling them,” a spokesman says. “But since we can’t stop the trend, the most we can hope to do is offer good advice.” (AFP) …Good idea, if your staff consists of Larry, Moe and Curley.

AS IF ANYONE REALLY CARES: “Political Apathy Growing, Poll Shows” — UPI headline

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