http://speechification.com/2009/07/21/radio-lab-stochasticity/ Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:01:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://speechification.com/2009/07/21/radio-lab-stochasticity/comment-page-1/#comment-22415 Kevin Sat, 29 Aug 2009 08:43:26 +0000 http://speechification.com/?p=455#comment-22415 A great show. Firstly the presenters, I like the way they are confident enough to pretend to be a bit naive when introducing a new topic. I also like the way they slightly mispronounced the names of English towns! Being English I thought that was funny. And here's something I think might interest them. They, well to be fair one of them, mispronounced "Gloucester" - it should be pronounced "Gloster". Similarly "Leicester" should be pronounced "Lester". My father said that German spies were caught in World War II because they said "Li-cester Square", rather than "Lester Square". But I think this story may well be apocryphal. Secondly I love the amount of sheer material covered. From covering that amazing coincidences are not really so amazing to covering dopamine and its effects. I found the simple link "Find reward leads to dopamine surge and feel pleasure leads to primed for motion leads to find new reward" very intellectually satisfying. And although I've done a psychology degree and already knew about dopamine's effect on one's emotions and how a lack of it gives rise to Parkinson's, I've never heard anyone so elegantly make the nice circular pathway of links that was made on this radio programme. Keep up the good work guys. I also make radio programmes for hospital radio here in England. And, other than my own programmes, I've not heard such good radio for a quite a while! Kevin A great show.
Firstly the presenters, I like the way they are confident enough to pretend to be a bit naive when introducing a new topic. I also like the way they slightly mispronounced the names of English towns! Being English I thought that was funny. And here’s something I think might interest them. They, well to be fair one of them, mispronounced “Gloucester” – it should be pronounced “Gloster”. Similarly “Leicester” should be pronounced “Lester”. My father said that German spies were caught in World War II because they said “Li-cester Square”, rather than “Lester Square”. But I think this story may well be apocryphal.
Secondly I love the amount of sheer material covered. From covering that amazing coincidences are not really so amazing to covering dopamine and its effects. I found the simple link “Find reward leads to dopamine surge and feel pleasure leads to primed for motion leads to find new reward” very intellectually satisfying. And although I’ve done a psychology degree and already knew about dopamine’s effect on one’s emotions and how a lack of it gives rise to Parkinson’s, I’ve never heard anyone so elegantly make the nice circular pathway of links that was made on this radio programme.
Keep up the good work guys. I also make radio programmes for hospital radio here in England. And, other than my own programmes, I’ve not heard such good radio for a quite a while!
Kevin

]]> http://speechification.com/2009/07/21/radio-lab-stochasticity/comment-page-1/#comment-21313 Philippa Sun, 09 Aug 2009 08:40:11 +0000 http://speechification.com/?p=455#comment-21313 Oh this is fantastic! Thank you! Oh this is fantastic! Thank you!

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