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the sense that never sleeps, eavesdropping on the world even while you dream
means The faculty by which you perceive sound, or an official session where evidence and arguments are listened to.
from From Old English 'hieran' (to hear, listen, obey), the same root that gives us 'hear' — likely from a Proto-Germanic source shared with Dutch 'horen' and German 'hören'. The legal sense, a formal occasion for being 'heard,' grew naturally from the plain act of listening: to grant someone a hearing was, quite literally, to lend them your ears.
- first to form
- Functional in the womb by week 18
- speed demon
- Ears process sound far faster than eyes process light
- tiniest bones
- The stapes is smaller than a rice grain
- last to leave
- Hearing may persist as other senses fade in death
- silent threat
- Dead hair cells never grow back in humans
beethoven's 9th symphony — ludwig van beethoven composed this masterpiece while almost completely deaf, 1824
helen keller's education — learned to communicate despite being deaf and blind, with annie sullivan as teacher
cochlear implant technology — fda-approved device that restored hearing to over 750,000 deaf people worldwide