This week's episode comes to us from our friends at Radiolab! Close your eyes and imagine a red apple. What do you see? Turns out there’s a whole spectrum of answers to that question, and producer Sindhu Gnanasambandan is on one far end. In this episode, she explores what it means to see — and not see — in your mind. This episode was reported and produced by Sindhu Gnanasambandan with help from Annie McEwen. Original music and sound design contributed by Dylan Keefe. Mixing help from Jeremy Bloom and Arianne Wack. Mixing for Science Vs by Sam Bair. Fact-checking by Natalie Middleton. Edited by Pat Walters. Special thanks to Kim Nederveen Pieterse, Nathan Peereboom, Lizzie Peabody, Kristin Lin, Jo Eidman, Mark Nakhla, Andrew Leland, Brian Radcliffe, Adam Zeman, John Green, Craig Venter, Dustin Grinnell, and Soraya Shockley. Science Vs is a Spotify Studios Original. Listen for free on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. Follow us and tap the bell for episode notifications. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Hi, I'm Wendy Zuckerman and you're listening to Science Versus. So we all know that everyone's different, right? We're all special snowflakes. But every now and then you'll hear a story, or maybe if you're a nerd like me, you'll read a scientific paper that makes you realize that we're different in these ways that you didn't expect, that you never thought about.
Turns out it's not just who loves Tay-Tay and who thinks she's just fine. And today's episode is all about this. Not Taylor Swift. The idea that we're different in these unexpected ways. It comes to us from Radiolab and it's a story that we heard and we just really loved it and wanted to share it with you. So we're going to jump in just after the break. All right. All right. I'm Lulu. I'm Latif.
This is Radiolab. And today's story comes to us from producer Sindhu Nyanasambandhan. Okay, so this story, it sort of found me.
Okay. Okay, yeah, yeah, okay, yeah.
Last year, I was working on this episode about memory. And I was talking to this neuroscientist, Mark Whitman.
And as a sort of aside... You can sort of cut this out anyway.
He asked me this question.
If you close your eyes and you think about, let's say, a red apple. Now, open it again, your eyes. Can you tell me what you saw? What did you see?
Um... There was a leaf on it. It was two-dimensional. I didn't think in 3D.
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