Ep 994 | Much too Optimistic…
Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher
Blaze Podcast Network
4.9 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2022
⏱️ 47 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Plays radio network and now chewing the fat with Jeff Fisher. |
| 0:06.1 | How often have you asked yourself can bees count? |
| 0:12.6 | I know every day right? |
| 0:15.1 | Well not only are people asking can bees count but we wanted to know if bees count from |
| 0:23.4 | left to right. |
| 0:26.3 | So according to a new, I'm sorry, not a study, research, bees ordered numbers in increasing |
| 0:35.4 | size from left to right. |
| 0:38.4 | Oh it is a study with research. |
| 0:40.2 | Alright there you go. |
| 0:41.8 | This is a new study shown for the first time supporting the much debated theory and |
| 0:47.2 | like I said, I can't shut up about bees counting. |
| 0:52.2 | The much debated theory that this direction is inherent in all animals including humans |
| 0:58.7 | we count left to right. |
| 1:01.3 | Western research has found that even before children learn to count, they start organizing |
| 1:07.0 | growing quantities from left to right and that's been called the mental number line. |
| 1:14.3 | However, the opposite direction has been found in people from cultures that use an Arabic |
| 1:21.1 | script which reads from right to left. |
| 1:26.1 | So there's been recent evidence that newborn babies, some vertebrae animals including primates |
| 1:35.3 | organized numbers from left to right. |
| 1:39.0 | And this study published last week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy |
| 1:45.8 | of Sciences. |
| 1:46.8 | Man do I love the journal of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. |
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