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fringeHomonid1706 karma

What has been your favorite moment of Bob Belcher having conversations with/giving voices to inanimate objects?

fringeHomonid31 karma

I think they mean get medicated so you can tolerate corporate life.

fringeHomonid16 karma

Science communication is a fun hobby.

fringeHomonid9 karma

What is somethiing striking (similarity and/or difference) in the travel times of PNS stimuli signals and brain region activations in primates vs non-primates? IOW, do touch/pain signals travel faster or slower? Do other animal's PNS behave like ours, in that, does a pain signal reach the spinal cord and then a "flinch/withdraw" signal get sent to the motor neurons in order to decrease exposure to the source of the pain stimulus?

Are there animals with a disproportionate balance of myelinated vs unmyelinated nerves?

Is there anything that you did not at all anticipate or anticipate but did not show up?

Has your work influenced or been influenced by works of philosopher and cognitive scientists like Dr. Dennett from Tufts University? (I know he doesn't much care to be known by the latter title)

fringeHomonid8 karma

I just finished listening to NDT's new (audio)book Astrophysics for people in a hurry, I highly recommend to anyone that's wants a brief tasting of the theories, laws, and concepts related to astrophysics in a digestible delivery. I've been watching, reading, and listening to space science stuff for as long as I can remember and this book is like a bellows to the embers of curiosity.