Late Night CBC Radio: Quirks and
Quarks: The South American bush cricket.
Caught in mid-broadcast, how could that
not fire your imagination? Especially when brushing your teeth,
minding your own business, trying to catch tomorrow's weather
forecast?
Well, my friends. Bush crickets have
ears. Yes!
To save you rushing to google this
extraordinary news (and part of my insect watch duties), let me
summarize for you from an article:
► impedance conversion
► nanoscale vibration
► auditory vesicle
► Doppler vibrometry
► rain forests of Colombia
Bottom line:
"Cricket ears inspire new hearing
aid" says another website.
► hearing
aids
► biomedical
imaging systems in hospitals
► ultrasonic
non-destructive evaluation to assess the structural integrity of
buildings and bridges
You have it all in a nutshell.
Bravo bush cricket! Beats all the rest
of the crappy news. Science owes you.
No bush cricket was available for
comment at this time.
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