Tag: hearing
For a Maverick Scientist, Curiosity Lead to Unexpected Adventures
In 1907, Forrest Mims’s great-grandfather lost his eyesight in a train track construction accident.
Jonathan McLatchie on the Gift of Hearing
“It strains credulity, to suppose that an unguided process of random variation sifted by natural selection could assemble such a delicately arranged system.”
The Sense of Hearing Is a Masterpiece of Engineering
It strains credulity to suppose that an unguided process of random variation sifted by natural selection could assemble such a delicately arranged system.
The Human Mind Is Wired for Music: How Did That Come About?
Most of us can correctly remember melodies and lyrics learned in childhood, even years after last having heard them.
Near-Death Research Slowly Fills in the Picture
When an 87-year-old man was having his brain scanned, he died — unexpectedly — of a heart attack. So, the scan recorded his unanticipated final brain activity.