I read Oliver Sach's book: Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain. Very fascinating. He tells case histories of people that hear music abnormally and lots of other interesting cases.

http://musicfortots.blogspot.com

Muybridge link above is dead. New one is:

http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artObjectDetails?artobj=105498

Can anyone make out what Oliver Sacs is saying when he names the medical term for that patient of his with the super fast reflexes?

I'm hearing something like tatophillia or tactaphillia... neither of which seem to be real terms...

I would really like to see some video of this condition in action.

I was wondering about what Mark G said in his comment, "somehow some part of our brain is engaged and we process time faster, which results in time moving slower". Is there any point where the objective reality, 'outside the mind', and subjective 'within the mind' meet and act as a part of one unified motion of time? If we view the brain as having a quantifable existence, as having an objective reality, then where do we draw the line with subjective experience? If the brain is a physical entity and it functions more rapidly under stress would that constitute not a subjective shift but an objective shift in time? When in the moment the physical firings of neurons translates into conscious thought what is lost, gained, or transformed which would cause for the label of subjective to appear? Does the term subjective have an objective existence?

Will this be available for download anytime soon?

I loved this episode on time. It's one of my favorite subjects from "speculative" physics. There was only one small error, most likely a reflection of how two excellent reporters chose to express themselves. In fact, in their reports they always referred to the passage of time, but they meant two different things. First, is the objective speed with which things occur--time itself. Second, is the perception of the passage of time, which is somehow subjective and hard-wired into our brains. Einstein demonstrated the former purely mathematically when he showed that the variable for time must change (time dilation) as objects speed up relative to one another. This was curiously only "confirmed" years later when technology permitted experiments of this nature. The latter is a feature that many of us have experienced, when under some stressful situation events seem to occur in slow motion. They don't, in fact, occur in slow motion, however, somehow some part of our brain is suddenly engaged and we are able to process time faster which results in the perception that time is moving slower. Too bad it doesn't.

I agree that it is poorly done. Scroll down past the comments, and click on "back to episode" That takes you to another page that has the mp3 link.

They still haven't fixed it so the rss feeds properly feed the podcast player. Make it kind of hard to listen. The only one that works in NetVibes is the Morality (Radio Lab: Friday, 06 July 2007) show.

Can't find the download MP3 links for many of these podcasts! I've subscribed via iTunes but still can't get certain episodes, especially earlier episodes listed in the archives.

Where is the link to download the podcast?