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Episode 72: Morning of the Mutants: On the Castrati

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You Need Two Eyes to See Properly

If you have one ear, you're only going to hear half of what you normally hear. I'm just saying that the fact that if our eyes were pointing in opposite directions, like in certain animals, sight would be a very different type of phenomenon. Whereas our ears aren't pointed forward like certain like predators, but they're pointed out to get more of a an ambiance,. It's less directional. Like cats actually move their ears ond like you would move your eyes around. So, like, there's more directionality to their hearing, whereas our hearing can't have just immersed in this sound world. A lot of animals, including dogs and cats, can hear upper ranges of

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