In this piece, <http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/sep2007/nidcd-05.htm>
the author starts off with "Our ability to hear is made possible by way of a Rube Goldberg-style process in which sound vibrations entering the ear shake and jostle a successive chain of structures until, lo and behold, they are converted into electrical signals that can be interpreted by the brain." That's a load of bunk. It's not a Rube Goldberg process at all. It's an incredibly elegant impedance-matching mechanism. It's only "Rube Goldberg" if you don't understand what the bones do. m ------ "There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about." -- Margaret Wheatley ---
