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Added: 2026-05-12

[00:00:02]Pin.

[00:00:08][music] >> Building metal wings to fly won't take you to the stars. Use the metal for a boat and you won't sail too far. Stop sitting in the dark stiring metal parts about. [music] You will change your life forever when you figure out >> the secret code.

[00:00:28]Beep beep.

[00:00:31]Science [music] can be tricky. It can overheat your brain. Science can be hard to chew. Each bite can be a pain. Stop sitting in the dark stiring metal about.

[00:00:38]You will change your life forever when you figure out [music] [music] cold.

[00:01:03]Yeah, take that.

[00:01:10]>> Do you have a second?

[00:01:17]>> Well, I do now. What's troubling you, Wally?

[00:01:20]>> Something's wrong with me. It seems like I haven't been able to write a poem in so many weeks.

[00:01:30]All right, let's just see.

[00:01:33]Nothing wrong with your eyes.

[00:01:37]>> Let's just try this.

[00:01:38]>> No, horse feathers.

[00:01:41]>> Language.

[00:01:42]>> What was that for?

[00:01:44]>> Well, it seems to me you're in tip-top shape. Maybe a bit of writer's block.

[00:01:49]>> Is that why you hit my knee? Add to the suffering of a struggling poet.

[00:01:55]>> [laughter] >> Oh, come on, Wall-E. Don't act so sheepish.

[00:02:01]Bad joke. Um, the point of that was to test your reflex speed. The world can be a dangerous place. That's why our bodies have a reaction system to keep us on our toes. It's so we stay alert when there's possible danger. This reaction kicks in when we feel pain. Here, try it out.

[00:02:19]Touch that cactus. Go ahead.

[00:02:22]Well, that's not a good system. That didn't even defend me. I got hurt.

[00:02:27]>> Exactly. You felt pain. When you touch something harmful, an impulse travels through your finger nerves to your spinal cord.

[00:02:36]This nerve impulse goes incredibly fast, over 200 m an hour.

[00:02:43]>> That's how fast crash drives. No wonder I felt pain. Once the impulse hits the spine, that sends another type of signal back to the arm muscle, which goes without saying is also crazy fast. It travels [music] back to the arm in order to save it. The hand automatically pulls back from the pain source before the brain even knows what happened. This is called a reflex. They're automatic movements we make to help us avoid danger. They can also be called unconditioned responses, and we learn most of them when we're kids, or sorry, lambs. Unconditioned responses help us know when to do things like sneeze to prevent dust in our airways, cover our ears, or jump out of the way when Crash is driving. [laughter] Even our eyes have these reflexes. When we look at a bright light, our pupils contract. And if something hits the center of your knee, your leg will kick.

[00:03:36]This is called a patella reflex.

[00:03:38]If we ever get sick, our reflexes slow down. That's why we have to check how fast they're working. Your reflexes all appear to be in tip-top working order.

[00:03:48]Only your writing's broken. [laughter] Reflexes are amazing science. Don't you think so?

[00:03:55]>> No, I don't. Reflexes didn't cure me.

[00:03:57]I'm a failure.

[00:03:59]>> Well, maybe it's something else. Do you feel homesick?

[00:04:02]>> Yeah, I do. Home is sitting down to write at night. Hearing crickets chirping in moonlit fields as I compose poetry by candlelight.

[00:04:18]Can't get that on this darn spaceship.

[00:04:23]>> I think I know something that can help.

[00:04:32]Do you really expect me to write out here?

[00:04:35]>> No, >> precisely.

[00:04:37]>> Come and join us. This is like poetry.

[00:04:45]>> Put down that inky thing and race me.

[00:04:46]>> Excuse me. Out of the way, please. Mind your hooves. Excuse me.

[00:04:51]>> How am I supposed to write in this chaos?

[00:04:54]Try to let it be a source of inspiration. Come on. I'm sure there's plenty of things here to rhyme with.

[00:05:01]Um, for example, let's try to rhyme some words like >> try to rhyme with the word eggplant.

[00:05:09]>> I can't.

[00:05:13]>> Okay. Now, let's try to find a rhyme for a rabbit.

[00:05:18]>> Like a bad habit.

[00:05:23]Move penguin coming through.

[00:05:25]>> How about cleaning?

[00:05:27]>> Their feathers need pining.

[00:05:29]>> Lemonade.

[00:05:30]>> Is it homemade?

[00:05:31]>> I'm dismayed.

[00:05:32]>> Well, you've been played >> in the shade.

[00:05:35]>> The barricade.

[00:05:39]This is all just garbage. How will any of this help me?

[00:05:44]>> We'll put your skills to the test. Now, what rhymes with the word reflex? This one's hard. There is no word that rhymes with that confounded term.

[00:05:54]>> No.

[00:05:56]>> Checks.

[00:05:57]Checks. It's checks. Reflex rhymes with checks. [laughter] I'm a genius. I'm cured.

[00:06:06]What did you do to me?

[00:06:08]>> I just helped you develop a condition reflex. So now, whenever you hear this music, writing a rhyme will become easy with time.

[00:06:20]What do you call this wizardry again?

[00:06:22]>> The conditioned reflex.

[00:06:26]>> Unconditioned responses are with us from the day we're born. We don't learn those. Conditioned responses, however, we pick up along the way. Let us use our old [music] friend Barry as an example.

[00:06:38]He's been attracted to the smell of honey from day one.

[00:06:43]It makes him drool. So, instinctively, whenever he smells honey nearby, he starts to drool.

[00:06:51]Once as a cub, he found it in a tree.

[00:06:53]Now he associates trees with honey.

[00:06:57]Therefore, trees make him drool with hunger.

[00:07:03]It doesn't always mean he's right, though.

[00:07:07]Sorry, Barry.

[00:07:09]His impulse to look for honey in trees is a conditioned response.

[00:07:13]>> But do I don't even like honey. What does this have to do with writing poems?

[00:07:19]candle light, crickets chirping, the moon, they're just part of your own conditioned response.

[00:07:26]When you wrote poems with these things around, you started to associate them with writing good poetry.

[00:07:33]That's why you think you need them to get over your writer's block.

[00:07:38]The good news is we can develop an even stronger reflex in you. Now, you see what I mean? The music is your new conditioned response. You hear it, you make up rhymes. Let's try it. Ego >> amigo do.

[00:07:55]Oh, thank you. My writer's block is finally gone.

[00:08:00]What light three yonder spaceship window breaks?

[00:08:06]That's it. Just right. And let it all come freely from my woolly mind. Uh maybe a sonnet. No, wait. Uh hi coup.

[00:08:16]Those are easy. I am a poetry master.

[00:08:21]Ah, it's time to let my genius shine.

[00:08:25]Let me just turn on my secret weapon to the max.

[00:08:54]I'm a genius.

[00:08:55]>> I know the vault is mine, but would you mind turning it down? It's really giving me a headache.

[00:09:08]>> Phenomenal stuff.

[00:09:09]>> Out of the way. Hurry. Move it. Most >> do what have you done to us? It's cuz I made a fuss. Superfluous.

[00:09:28]We need to discuss.

[00:09:30]>> So incredible. I didn't consider the wider effects. It's not just Wall-E.

[00:09:35]Everyone else has become conditioned too to whatever they were doing at the time.

[00:09:39]And it's all because of the music, which is worse because it's loud. Turn it off right now.

[00:09:46]>> I can't do what you ask of me for Barry broke the control. You see, I need to try or I may start to cry or give up and die. Oh my.

[00:09:59]>> We interrupt this audio track for an urgent message. We are approaching an asteroid belt. Enact emergency protocol immediately.

[00:10:07]>> My lungs are on fire. Act emergency protocol immediately.

[00:10:11]>> Enact emergency immediately.

[00:10:14]>> Thank you for your attention. Now resuming audio track.

[00:10:18]>> No. [screaming] >> And the ship can't hear our commands over all this noise.

[00:10:28][screaming] >> Out of the way. Out of the way. Out of the way.

[00:10:32]>> Pin. Wake up.

[00:10:35]>> I fear these asteroids. [laughter] We will not clear.

[00:10:40]>> This is hopeless. How do we overcome a conditioned response or >> Wally, go steer us and TRY TO AVOID CRASHING? JUST BE careful and I'll I'll try TO TURN THIS MUSIC OFF.

[00:10:55]>> The situation's bad. The worst day I've ever had.

[00:11:19]Get out.

[00:11:30]Clean. Got to clean. Got to clean. Got to clean. Got to clean out. Oh god. Got to clean.

[00:11:34]>> Stop.

[00:11:44]Why do I feel so tired? Feels like I've been chopping piles of wood.

[00:11:50]>> No. Stop. No.

[00:11:53]Asteroids.

[00:11:55]The music. Somebody turn off the music.

[00:11:58]Someone [music] stop it.

[00:12:02]Oh, I can't handle this stuff. I'd rather just have writer's block.

[00:12:08]>> Gathering up next, we've got our listener request hour. First up is a unique tuba cover of Lona Imob.

[00:12:16][screaming] >> Ivon Pavlov was a Russian scientist who first studied the concept of a conditioned response and did so in an interesting way. You've probably heard of his study in which he trained dogs to be conditioned to receive a treat each time they heard a bell ring. That's where the term Pavlov's dog comes from.

[00:12:38]It earned him the Nobel [music] Prize in Medicine in 1904.