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| 0:09.8 | This is Radio Lab. I'm Chad Abumrand. |
| 0:11.9 | We're going to start today's program with a brief diversion to Midtown Manhattan. |
| 0:18.2 | At the office of a neuropsychologist. |
| 0:20.4 | Good morning. Good morning. |
| 0:21.6 | How are you? |
| 0:22.6 | Cameron Fallonpore, a well-dressed man with a calm voice, calming presence, and uncanny ability to calm others. |
| 0:30.6 | Which is why we're here. |
| 0:31.6 | Are you going to be the volunteer? |
| 0:33.6 | Uh, yeah. |
| 0:34.6 | Should I should... |
| 0:35.6 | He walks me over to a small machine and asks for my left hand. |
| 0:39.0 | Have your left hand. |
| 0:42.8 | Okay, what we're doing right now, we're just putting a couple of sensors that measure basically the flow of electrons between the two fingers here. |
| 0:52.9 | That would be my index and middle fingers. |
| 0:54.9 | And there are electrons going between my fingers? |
| 0:57.0 | Oh, absolutely. |
| 0:57.7 | Well, there are salts and minerals that are going to enable a very tiny electrical charge |
| 1:04.3 | to travel from one finger to the other one. |
| 1:06.7 | And he explains the more anxious I am, the more sparks fly between my fingers. |
| 1:11.1 | In other words, this is a stress test. |
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