Body & Brain

How Your Ears Hear

Name: How Your Ears Hear
Duration: 78 s
Description: Air vibration → eardrum → 3 tiny bones → fluid → hair cells → brain. A Rube Goldberg machine.

Air vibration → eardrum → 3 tiny bones → fluid → hair cells → brain. A Rube Goldberg machine.

Sound is just air, vibrating. Your ear catches those vibrations and turns them into thoughts. The machine inside your head that pulls that off is wild.

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EardrumOssiclesCochleaHair Cells