The Incredible Mechanics That Make You Hear

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How does sound actually get inside your head? How can little vibrations in the air turn into nerve impulses? Let's meet the 100 nanometers of protein that connect you to sound

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Consciousness is super weird--how do we take all these signals from the outside world and make them make sense enough to like...be alive?

However--if you examine hearing from a molecular perspective--you’ll begin to see how simple and elegant it is as a sense. We’re traveling deep into your cochlea to meet your inner ear cells and the stereocilia that make it possible for you to hear. Here, you’ll discover that hearing is just a hundred nanometers of protein tugging on a membrane. It is such a small and simple process with incredibly complex consequences.