Tangled Bank #102
The latest issue of
Tangled Bank is #102. It's hosted at
Further Thoughts [
Tangled Bank #102].
Welcome to the latest issue of The Tangled Bank, the blog carnival dedicated to the world of biology, medicine, natural history…and Sarah Silverman.
We’re all getting older. And as we get older, we lose the ability to hear some frequencies. Diane Kelly of Science Made Cool offers Is That…A Dog Whistle? – a tale of a test that lets you know just how much damage you did to your hearing back in your clubbing days…or will do when you finally finish grad school and are able to emerge onto the social scene ....
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The latest issue of Tangled Bank is #102. It's hosted at Further Thoughts [Tangled Bank #102].
Loosing the ability to hear higher frequencies with age reminds me of a story about one of my biochem professors.
ReplyDeleteWe were taking our first biochem lab class in which we were being taught how to use a sonicator to lyse E. Coli open before purifying a protein. As soon as our professor started tuning the horn all of us "youngsters" started howling in pain. Our curmudgeonly old professor didn't believe we could hear the high-pitched sound, so he kept turning up the amplitude. Of course, we were all practically crying at this point and he finally relented. So, it's true, old people can't hear high frequencies. (Especially old biochem profs.)