Are You Sure?
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This hour, we walk the tightrope between doubt and certainty, and wonder if there's a way to make yourself at home on that razor's edge between definitely...and not so sure.
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Just listening to radio lab from WNYC and NPR. Okay so you know the core of our job right is to ask people questions right. Yes. I've noticed that the answers sometimes have a kind of musicality to them. Like sometimes you get this. That's right. No. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Yes. Oh. No. I know those are the sharp, quick staccato beats. Yes. Yes. Yes. And this is like the sound of certainty right. But there are times when you get a completely different music you know like say you're asking a hard question or a clarifying question is it A or is it B then sometimes you get this. Well it's certain I need to see. I mean yeah well but I think you get this kind of melodic wavering. I know it's I know it's the little I know you know I don't know. Compurately musical terms the pitches in the first one are like pal pal pal they're just precise and quick but in that second category the pitches are floating up or floating down they're never stable. You're not normal person really. No it's like that's the sound of a doubt. Doubt. Doubt. Doubt. Doubt. Doubt. Doubt. Doubt. Doubt. Doubt. Doubt. Doubt. Doubt. Doubt. Doubt. Doubt. Doubt. You know we could do. What's that? What are the categories for you?
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This hour, we walk the tightrope between doubt and certainty, and wonder if there's a way to make yourself at home on that razor's edge between definitely...and not so sure.