Third Thumb with Dr. Shannon Odell

We Have Concerns

Anthony Carboni/Jeff Cannata

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4.9 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2021

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Researchers trained people to use a robotic extra thumb and found they could effectively carry out dexterous tasks in only a few hours. Doctor of Neuroscience Shannon Odell joins Anthony and Jeff to share her expertise about how the brain could be handling this new appendage. Then, she sticks around to answer questions from our Patrons!

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0:00.0	["Full of Love"]
0:04.3	["Full of Love"]
0:10.2	["Full of Love"]
0:13.7	There are two things that I know now, and one of them is that my bones are squishy, and
0:18.4	the other is that I'm never getting on a plane again.
0:21.0	This is We Have Concerns.
0:22.5	Hi, Jeff Kanata.
0:24.0	Hi, Anthony Carboni.
0:25.5	Hello, Concerns citizens.
0:26.7	Jeff, you know I take our No Scientist policy on the show very seriously.
0:30.9	Yeah, we are an award-winning science podcast with No Scientist.
0:35.3	Well, because I understand, just like you understand, that science is a feeling.
0:40.7	Science, it can't be quantified.
0:43.9	It refuses, it refuses to be explained.
0:47.7	There's one thing we know about science, it's that you can't really write it down.
0:52.7	No, science comes from somewhere deep inside, where we don't know.
0:57.7	No one will ever know.
0:59.2	No one will ever know, and that's science.
1:01.9	And yet somehow, every once in a while, a scientist warms their way into the anxiety chamber.
1:09.4	And today we are joined by one of them.
1:11.1	I actually like this one.
1:13.1	I actually like this one just fine.
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