radiolab

radiolab
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http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab -- is an awesome program

If you are born in the '50s and '60s or you were born in the '80s and '90s, I think you have different jokes, different music, different conversations in your head, a whole different set of how you read life. - Robert Krulwich,[| Making Radiolab]

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 * Walter Murch:** As far as we can tell from the evolutionary record, the oldest sense that we have is either the sense of smell or the sense of touch, that's what amoebae and bacteria use to navigate around in the world. Hearing is a very refined sense of touch, and of all the five senses, it is the latest to be developed by living entities on Earth. The paradox about hearing is that as the child is growing in the womb, it is the first of the senses to get hooked up. About four-and-a-half months after conception, which is to say halfway through gestation, the child begins to hear. The child is not seeing anything because it's dark in there, the child isn't tasting anything or smelling anything, but hearing. For all intents and purposes, the world into which the child is developing, which is to say the mother's middle, is full of sound, it's got the mother's heartbeat 24 hours a day, it's got her breathing 24 hours a day, the gurgling of her intestines at certain times of day, it's got her voice, and remembering that the womb is pretty thin, there is nothing to prevent sounds from outside (the father's voice, music) penetrating in and being heard by the developing child.


 * [|Radiolab - from The New York Times Magazine]**


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