The cockroach beatbox - Greg Gage
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By dissecting a cockroach ... yes, live on stage ... TED Fellow and neuroscientist Greg Gage shows how brains receive and deliver electric impulses -- and how legs can respond. (Launching a series on Awesome Nature) "The Cockroach Beatbox" was animated by the TED-Ed Animation Team (Jeremiah Dickey, Biljana Labovic, Celeste Lai, Kari Mulholland and Franz Palomares)
According to Gage, we have a much easier time understanding and explaining organs like the heart and lungs than we do with the brain. Why is that?
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Meet The Creators
- Director Biljana Labović, Kari Mulholland
- Animator Franz Palomares
- Speaker Greg Gage
