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Ep14 "Why do we have so little access to what’s happening under the hood?"

Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman

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The Mystery of Chicken Sexing

The job of the chicken sexer is to pick up each hatchling and quickly determine its sex in order to choose the correct bin to put it in. The japanese invented a method of sexing chicks known as vent sexing by which expert chicken sexers could rapidly figure out the sex of one day old hatchlings so beginning in the 1930s poultry breeders from around the world traveled to the zen nippon chick-sexing school in japan to learn the technique. There can be a really large gap between knowledge that your brain has and your conscious awareness we all enjoy spending time on social media but while it can be a force for good it's also one of the

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