At 9:21 AM -0500 9/6/07, Marc Carter wrote:
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.
.... which started out as the jaw hinge of a fish.
It's the transformation into that elegant mechanism which might be
referred to as "Rube Goldberg" (something about unintelligent
designers?).
It's only "Rube
Goldberg" if you don't understand what the bones do.
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