Why do we go bald?
Moment Of Um
Lemonada Media
4.4 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 14 June 2024
⏱️ 7 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | From the brains behind brains on, this is the Moment of Um. |
| 0:04.6 | I'm Arthur, and I'm a bald eagle. |
| 0:24.8 | I have a bone to pick with whoever decided to make us bald eagles the official animal symbol of the United States. |
| 0:33.8 | I mean, sure, we're big majestic-looking birds who soar over forests and canyons, blah, blah, blah. Do you know how much pressure we're under to uphold the image? Seriously. Some days, I just don't have it in me to perch stoically, feathers gleaming. Sometimes, I just don't have it in me to perch stoically, feathers gleaming. Sometimes, I just don't have it in me to perch stoically, feathers gleaming. |
| 0:56.2 | Sometimes, I just want to roll out of the nest without preening, |
| 1:01.7 | grab a fish from the river, and chill out. |
| 1:05.9 | There's a lot of hype around us, eagles, that isn't always true, too. |
| 1:13.6 | I mean, for one thing, have you ever heard an eagle scream in a movie? I got news for you. That's not what we sound like. That's a red-tailed |
| 1:24.2 | hawk. Human movie-making types thought it sounded a lot fiercer than our actual calls. |
| 1:33.4 | And another thing. Bald eagles aren't even bald. Our heads are fully covered in feathers. |
| 1:41.3 | Thank you very much. Humans are the ones who go bald. No idea how that works either. |
| 1:49.0 | One of my human friends was just asking about this too. |
| 1:54.5 | Humans are mammals, and that means that we have hair over our entire body, except for our lips, |
| 2:02.1 | the palms of our hands, and the souls of our feet. |
| 2:03.6 | My name is Emma Gerstam-Zang, |
| 2:05.6 | and I'm a pediatrician in Philadelphia. |
| 2:08.6 | Having hair on our head keeps us from getting a sunburn on our head, |
| 2:13.6 | keeps our head in our neck, which is, you know, |
| 2:15.6 | remember your brain's inside there, so you want to keep your brain safe from getting too cold, too hot, and things like that. |
| 2:23.3 | So if you take a look closely, every part of your skin over your entire body has hair. |
| 2:29.3 | Sometimes that hair is super thin, so tiny, doesn't have any color, you can barely tell it's there, but if you look |
| 2:36.1 | super close, you can see little tiny, fine hairs. And we have some parts of our body where we have |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Lemonada Media, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Lemonada Media and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.

