This is an interesting talk given by the biologist Richard Dawkins on what he calls the "middle-sized world."  My friend Matt Wraith, a PhD student at the London Consortium, pointed this talk out to me.  It was given at TED in July of 2005.

Here's the description for the talk on the TED website:

Biologist Richard Dawkins makes a case for "thinking the improbable" by looking at how our human frame of reference -- the things we can perceive with our five senses, and understand with our eight-pound brain -- limits our understanding of the universe. Think of it: We can't see atoms, we can't see infrared light, we can't hear ultrasonic frequencies, but we know without a doubt that they exist. What else is out there that we can't yet perceive -- what dimensions of space, what aspects of time, what forms of life?

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