Where Am I?

Radiolab

WNYC Studios

Natural Sciences, History, Documentary, Science, Society & Culture

4.6 • 44.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2006

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

OK. Maybe you're in your desk chair. You're in your office. You're in New York, or Detroit, or Timbuktu. You're on planet Earth. But where are you, really? This hour, Radiolab tries to find out.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Radio Lab.
0:06.9	From New York Public Radio.
0:08.7	Public Radio.
0:09.8	WNYC.
0:13.7	Testing.
0:15.9	Testing, testing.
0:19.6	This is Radio Lab. I'm Chad Abumrad.
0:21.9	And I'm Robert Crowley.
0:23.2	And since this hour, we'll be talking about brains and bodies and how they communicate.
0:27.4	We thought we'd begin the program with a guy that we go to quite often.
0:31.9	He knows about this sort of thing.
0:33.4	Oliver Sacks.
0:35.4	Oliver is a neurologist, a very famous author,
0:38.8	he took us to his study to show us something that just fascinates him.
0:42.9	I've become fascinated.
0:44.7	Incidentally, I hope you have to be careful with your watch or your computers.
0:51.2	He showed us a silver ball.
0:52.7	I should just describe here.
0:54.0	I am looking at a silver ball about the size of a small, small ping pong ball.
0:58.9	Which he handed to you.
1:00.5	Would you care to lift up that little steel ball?
1:04.4	And as soon as he did,
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