Sight off the Bat

We Have Concerns

Anthony Carboni/Jeff Cannata

Pop, Society & Culture, Culture, Games, Gadgets, News, Internet, Comedy, Science

4.9 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2018

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

While hunting for dinner, the big brown bat must hone in on flitting insects and keep track of its surroundings to avoid crashing into them. Now, scientists have taken a peek at what’s going on in these bats’ brains while they swoop and dive. They identified a brain region that helps the animals map where objects are in relation to their own bodies, and saw that individual brain cells changed their behavior while the bats focused their attention on a particular object. The findings could help us understand certain aspects of attention issues in people as well as how bats and animals navigate while on the move. Jeff and Anthony check with their doctors to see if Batterall is right for them.

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0:00.0	If you're enjoying the show and you'd like to get more, maybe you want to get bonus episodes,
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0:08.8	Jeff and other fans of the show. The way to find out how to do that is to go to patreon.com
0:14.2	slash we have concerns.
0:30.4	I try to survive without them as much as Paul's. I try to survive without acne on my
0:34.1	eyelid, but I guess that's not going to happen anymore. This is we have concerns. Hi, Jeff
0:37.5	Kanada. Hi Anthony, Karboni. Hello, concerned citizens. Bats. What?
0:43.0	Flying winged bugs of the night. Rodents of the skies. There was this whole thing in Calvin and Hobbes.
0:50.8	It was like a multi-week storyline where Calvin had to write a report about bats.
0:58.4	He refused to study or do any work for it. The very last minute, he's like, all right,
1:04.5	what do I know about bats? Let's start there and he put bats equals bugs.
1:10.4	Can I tell you something really strange about you bringing that up?
1:13.1	What? Last night before I went to bed as I was lying in bed for no discernible reason.
1:19.1	You were wondering if bats were bugs? No, no, no. I was thinking about Calvin and Hobbes.
1:23.6	I was deep, deep regret about the fact that the world is without Calvin and Hobbes.
1:29.8	I think about Calvin and Hobbes all the time. Yeah, it is. It was the best of us.
1:34.9	It was the best of us. It was the worst of us, as Gandhi said. Anyway, bats.
1:42.2	Yes, but a bunch of skirks. What's going on with these sky bugs?
1:45.6	Okay, so here's what's up. Bats obviously find their way around mostly via echolocation.
1:50.6	We know this. They screech and they got the radar and they hear the bounces and it lets
1:55.2	them know where things are. Because they can't download ways.
1:57.7	It's because they can't do ways. Google maps is basically useless to them.
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