Jul 26, 2007

listen to radiolab (radiolab.org)

You know, while you're waiting for the next This American Life to come. So good.

After only being an audience member for one day, I have learned:
-most living things only turn off half their brain while sleeping. so they only experience that inbetween drowsy loopy feeling. (which doesn't sound entirely bad)
-it is, in fact, possible to have memories erased and implanted in your mind. (yes, just like Eternal Sunshine)
-memories are made of proteins. and with certain strategically timed doses of a drug that stops protein production, you can just prevent a memory from ever forming.
-ducks sleep with one eye open
-about 50% of people would be willing to suffocate their own crying baby to save an entire village that is hiding. (I don't know what I would do. Prolly just cry a lot.)
-100% of people would flip a lever to switch a train's track so that it would hit one man instead of 5. But 0% of people would push that man on the tracks to save the 5.
-when exposed to it for one 4 hour block, tetris will be present in 60% of those people's dreams

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