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Saturday, January 5, 2013

Surely you didnt hear this




Title: The universal sense

Listeners of the low end chapter on tadpoles that switch from opercular hearing to the ear. A human foetus switches from umbilical cord to lungs for breathing

Tuning fork on the book cover might/might not work as an attention monger depending on your experience in science class. If you think, the ear with its so many inner/outer/middle like levels of hell is too much on one thing, feel free to skip the jarg on it and still theres the 'How hearing shapes the mind' to be appreciated in the book.
All that pregnancy reading helped in seeing parallels of how foetus shifts from systems during birth. A human foetus shifts from umbilical cord to pulmonary route for breathing. And such a shift is found in bull frog tadpoles when they move from the opercular way of hearing under water to the ear.
There are so many things about hearing that we come across daily but havent put it into:

Do you know why you have preference for one ear when you talk on the phone
 Why you have to take care of alarms while it doesnt seem to bother others
How you can hear over the din in a restaurant/party - Cocktail effect

This is science amped All you wanted to know about hearing from a contemporary scientist who does his homework of popular/necessary reading.

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