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Sleep | Radiolab Podcast
From the Radiolab podcast: Birds do it, bees do it, yet science still can't answer the basic question — why do we sleep?
We had a question back in 2007, about a thing every creature on the planet does — from giant humpback whales to teeny fruit flies. Why do we all sleep? What does it do for us, and what happens when we go without? We take a peek at iguanas sleeping with one eye open, get in bed with a pair of sleep-deprived new parents, and eavesdrop on the uneasy dreams of rats.
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published: 10 Aug 2024
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Up in Smoke | Radiolab Podcast
From the Radiolab podcast: Wildfires, a mysterious outbreak, and a question — is there something in the smoke?
Two scenes. In the first, a doctor gets a call — the hospital she works at is having an outbreak of unknown origin, in the middle of the worst wildfire season on record. In the second, an ecologist stands in a forest, watching it burn. Through very different circumstances, they both find themselves asking the same question: is there something in the smoke? This question will bring them together, and reveal — to all of us — a world we never saw before.
This is the first episode in an ongoing series hosted by Molly Webster, in conversation with scientists and science-y people, doing work at the furthest edges of what we know. More to come!
Special thanks to Leda Kobziar, at th...
published: 17 Aug 2024
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Memory and Forgetting | Radiolab Podcast
From the Radiolab podcast: Remembering is a tricky, unstable business. In this episode from 2007, we look behind the curtain of how memories are made and forgotten.
The act of recalling in our minds something that happened in the past is an unstable and profoundly unreliable process — it’s easy come, easy go as we learn how true memories can be obliterated, and false ones added. Then, Oliver Sacks joins us to tell the story of an amnesiac whose love for his wife and music transcend his seven-second memory.
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published: 11 May 2024
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Lose Lose | Radiolab Podcast
From the Radiolab podcast: This episode we look at a high-profile sporting event where, thanks to a quirk in the tournament rules, the best shot at winning was to lose.
To celebrate the start of the Summer Olympic Games in Paris, France, we have an episode originally reported in 2016. No matter what sport you play, the object of the game is to win. And that’s hard enough to do. But we found the most paradoxical and upside down badminton match of all time. A match that dumbfounded spectators, officials, and even the players themselves. And it got us to wondering: what would sports look like if everyone played to lose?
Special thanks to Aparna Nancherla, Mark Phelan, Yuni Kartika, Greysia Polii, Joy Le Li, Mikyoung Kim, Stan Bischof, Vincent Liew, Kota Morikowa, Christ de Roij and Haeryun...
published: 27 Jul 2024
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Colors: What is Color, Really? | Radiolab Podcast
From the Radiolab podcast: How does something so intangible as color pack such a visceral punch? In this episode, in the name of science and poetry, Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich tear the rainbow to pieces.
To what extent is color a physical thing in the physical world, and to what extent is it created in our minds? We start with Sir Isaac Newton, who was so eager to solve this very mystery, he stuck a knife in his eye to pinpoint the answer. Then, we meet a sea creature — the mantis shrimp — that sees a rainbow way beyond anything humans can experience, and we track down a real-life tetrachromat, who we're pretty sure can see thousands (maybe even millions) more colors than the rest of us. And we end with an age-old question, that, it turns out, never even occurred to most humans until...
published: 12 Nov 2021
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Alone Enough | Radiolab Podcast
From the Radiolab podcast: Endurance aloneness, and what the pros have to say about it.
Cat Jaffee didn’t necessarily think of herself as someone who loved being alone. But then, the pandemic hit. And she got diagnosed with cancer. Actually, those two things happened on the exact same day, at the exact same hour. In the shadow of that nightmarish timing, Cat found her way to a sport that celebrated the solitude that was forced on her, and taught her how to not only embrace self-reliance, but to love it.
This sport is called competitive bikepacking. And in these competitions, riders have to bring everything they need to complete epic bike rides totally by themselves. They pack all the supplies they think they’ll need to survive, and have to refuse some of the simplest, subtlest, most int...
published: 31 Mar 2023
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Small Potatoes | Radiolab Podcast
From the Radiolab podcast: An ode to the small, the banal, the overlooked things that make up the fabric of our lives.
Most of our stories are about the big stuff: Important or dramatic events, big ideas that transform the world around us or inspire conflict and struggle and change. But most of our lives, day by day or hour by hour, are made up of not that stuff. Most of our lives are what we sometimes dismissively call “small potatoes.”
In this episode of Radiolab, Heather Radke challenges to focus on the small, the overlook, the everyday, and find out what happens when you take a good hard look at the things we all usually overlook.
Special thanks to Moeko Fujii, Kelley Conway, Robin Kelley, Jason Isaacs and Andrew Semans.
CONTENT ADVISORY: This episode contains a couple of curse wo...
published: 27 Apr 2024
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The Alford Plea | Radiolab Podcast
From the Radiolab podcast: A man finds himself forever caught between guilt and innocence.
In 1995, a tragic fire in Pittsburgh set off a decades-long investigation that sent Greg Brown Jr. to prison. But, after a series of remarkable twists, Brown found himself contemplating a path to freedom that involved a paradoxical plea deal — one that peels back the curtain on the criminal justice system and reveals it doesn’t work the way we think it does.
Special thanks to John Lentini, Amanda Gillooly, Fred Buckner, Debbie Steinmeyer, Marissa Bluestine, Jason Hazlewood, Meredith Kennedy, Kristen Vermilya, Joshua Ceballos and Lauren Cooperman.
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published: 06 Jul 2024
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The World's Smartest Animal | Radiolab Podcast
From the Radiolab podcast: What’s the smartest animal in the world? We figure it out the best way we know how: an animal game show.
This episode begins with a rant. This rant, in particular, comes from Dan Engber, a science writer who loves animals but despises animal intelligence research. Dan told us that so much of the way we study animals involves tests that we think show a human is smart — not the animals we intend to study.
Dan’s rant got us thinking: what is the smartest animal in the world? And if we threw out our human intelligence rubric, is there a fair way to figure it out?
Obviously, there is. And it’s a live game show, judged by Jad, Robert and a dog.
This final episode of G, our miniseries on intelligence, was recorded as a live show back in May 2019 at The Greene Space...
published: 02 Mar 2024
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My Thymus, Myself | Radiolab Podcast
From the Radiolab podcast: The story of an organ that knows what is you, and what is not you.
In this episode senior correspondent Molly Webster takes us to a spot that may be one of the most philosophical places in the universe: the thymus (not to be confused with the thyroid), an organ that knows what is you, and what is not you. Its mood may be existential, but its role is practical — the thymus is the biological training ground where the body's T-cells learn to protect itself from outside invaders (think: bacteria, coronaviruses). But this training is not the humdrum bit of science you might expect. It’s a magical shadowland with dire consequences.
Then, we’ll leave the thymus to visit a team of doctors who are using this organ that protects you as a way to protect someone else. The...
published: 08 Jul 2022
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Sleep | Radiolab Podcast
From the Radiolab podcast: Birds do it, bees do it, yet science still can't answer the basic question — why do we sleep?
We had a question back in 2007, about ...
From the Radiolab podcast: Birds do it, bees do it, yet science still can't answer the basic question — why do we sleep?
We had a question back in 2007, about a thing every creature on the planet does — from giant humpback whales to teeny fruit flies. Why do we all sleep? What does it do for us, and what happens when we go without? We take a peek at iguanas sleeping with one eye open, get in bed with a pair of sleep-deprived new parents, and eavesdrop on the uneasy dreams of rats.
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🌝 We have some exciting news! In our “Zoozve” episode, Radiolab named our first-ever quasi-moon, and now it's your turn! We've teamed up with The International Astronomical Union to launch a global naming contest for one of Earth’s quasi-moons. This is your chance to make your mark on the heavens. Submit your name ideas now through September, or vote on your favorites starting in November: https://radiolab.org/moon
Listen to the "Zoozve" episode here: https://youtu.be/AA-1Xg2t0wQ
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From the Radiolab podcast: Birds do it, bees do it, yet science still can't answer the basic question — why do we sleep?
We had a question back in 2007, about a thing every creature on the planet does — from giant humpback whales to teeny fruit flies. Why do we all sleep? What does it do for us, and what happens when we go without? We take a peek at iguanas sleeping with one eye open, get in bed with a pair of sleep-deprived new parents, and eavesdrop on the uneasy dreams of rats.
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🌝 We have some exciting news! In our “Zoozve” episode, Radiolab named our first-ever quasi-moon, and now it's your turn! We've teamed up with The International Astronomical Union to launch a global naming contest for one of Earth’s quasi-moons. This is your chance to make your mark on the heavens. Submit your name ideas now through September, or vote on your favorites starting in November: https://radiolab.org/moon
Listen to the "Zoozve" episode here: https://youtu.be/AA-1Xg2t0wQ
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Video by W. Harry Fortuna
- published: 10 Aug 2024
- views: 3955
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Up in Smoke | Radiolab Podcast
From the Radiolab podcast: Wildfires, a mysterious outbreak, and a question — is there something in the smoke?
Two scenes. In the first, a doctor gets a call ...
From the Radiolab podcast: Wildfires, a mysterious outbreak, and a question — is there something in the smoke?
Two scenes. In the first, a doctor gets a call — the hospital she works at is having an outbreak of unknown origin, in the middle of the worst wildfire season on record. In the second, an ecologist stands in a forest, watching it burn. Through very different circumstances, they both find themselves asking the same question: is there something in the smoke? This question will bring them together, and reveal — to all of us — a world we never saw before.
This is the first episode in an ongoing series hosted by Molly Webster, in conversation with scientists and science-y people, doing work at the furthest edges of what we know. More to come!
Special thanks to Leda Kobziar, at the University of Idaho, and Naomi Hauser, at the University of California, Davis. Plus, James and Shelby Kaemmerer, and Paula and John Troche.
EPISODE CREDITS:
Hosted and Reported by Molly Webster.
Produced by Sindhu Gnanasambandan.
Fact-checking by Diane A. Kelly.
Edited by Pat Walters.
EPISODE CITATIONS:
Want to learn more about bacteria in snow-making machines? Check out this New York Times article: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/15/magazine/its-buggy-out-there.html
Or this science-explainer: https://www.science.org/content/article/video-these-microbes-are-key-making-artificial-snow
Read Leda’s paper on microbes in smoke: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43705-022-00089-5
For more details on the outbreak at Naomi’s hospital, you can check out this abstract of her findings: https://academic.oup.com/ofid/article/9/Supplement_2/ofac492.1207/6902972
Leda was inspired to stick petri dishes into smoke after reading a science research paper written by a father-daughter team, as part of a high school science project in Texas. Go read it: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1352231003009142?casa_token=iLsF%5B%E2%80%A6%5DBlMGQwSjoh8BCrePmHCvqG8vlCC3i0tBAij9f3x53jbZpEsHlVssvKeupw
For further fungal listening, Radiolab and Molly have covered fungus and hospital outbreaks before (plus: dinosaurs!), in our episode "Fungus Amungus": https://radiolab.org/podcast/fungus-amungus
You can also listen to "Super Cool," a Radiolab episode about wild horses, microbes and things freezing instantaneously. (It’s seriously one of Molly’s favorite Radiolab episodes and it has a moment of such SPONTANEOUS joy, she re-plays it at least once a year to smile.) Listen here: https://radiolab.org/podcast/super-cool-2017
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🌝 We have some exciting news! In our “Zoozve” episode, Radiolab named our first-ever quasi-moon, and now it's your turn! We've teamed up with The International Astronomical Union to launch a global naming contest for one of Earth’s quasi-moons. This is your chance to make your mark on the heavens. Submit your name ideas now through September, or vote on your favorites starting in November: https://radiolab.org/moon
Listen to the "Zoozve" episode here: https://youtu.be/AA-1Xg2t0wQ
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Video by W. Harry Fortuna
https://wn.com/Up_In_Smoke_|_Radiolab_Podcast
From the Radiolab podcast: Wildfires, a mysterious outbreak, and a question — is there something in the smoke?
Two scenes. In the first, a doctor gets a call — the hospital she works at is having an outbreak of unknown origin, in the middle of the worst wildfire season on record. In the second, an ecologist stands in a forest, watching it burn. Through very different circumstances, they both find themselves asking the same question: is there something in the smoke? This question will bring them together, and reveal — to all of us — a world we never saw before.
This is the first episode in an ongoing series hosted by Molly Webster, in conversation with scientists and science-y people, doing work at the furthest edges of what we know. More to come!
Special thanks to Leda Kobziar, at the University of Idaho, and Naomi Hauser, at the University of California, Davis. Plus, James and Shelby Kaemmerer, and Paula and John Troche.
EPISODE CREDITS:
Hosted and Reported by Molly Webster.
Produced by Sindhu Gnanasambandan.
Fact-checking by Diane A. Kelly.
Edited by Pat Walters.
EPISODE CITATIONS:
Want to learn more about bacteria in snow-making machines? Check out this New York Times article: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/15/magazine/its-buggy-out-there.html
Or this science-explainer: https://www.science.org/content/article/video-these-microbes-are-key-making-artificial-snow
Read Leda’s paper on microbes in smoke: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43705-022-00089-5
For more details on the outbreak at Naomi’s hospital, you can check out this abstract of her findings: https://academic.oup.com/ofid/article/9/Supplement_2/ofac492.1207/6902972
Leda was inspired to stick petri dishes into smoke after reading a science research paper written by a father-daughter team, as part of a high school science project in Texas. Go read it: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1352231003009142?casa_token=iLsF%5B%E2%80%A6%5DBlMGQwSjoh8BCrePmHCvqG8vlCC3i0tBAij9f3x53jbZpEsHlVssvKeupw
For further fungal listening, Radiolab and Molly have covered fungus and hospital outbreaks before (plus: dinosaurs!), in our episode "Fungus Amungus": https://radiolab.org/podcast/fungus-amungus
You can also listen to "Super Cool," a Radiolab episode about wild horses, microbes and things freezing instantaneously. (It’s seriously one of Molly’s favorite Radiolab episodes and it has a moment of such SPONTANEOUS joy, she re-plays it at least once a year to smile.) Listen here: https://radiolab.org/podcast/super-cool-2017
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🌝 We have some exciting news! In our “Zoozve” episode, Radiolab named our first-ever quasi-moon, and now it's your turn! We've teamed up with The International Astronomical Union to launch a global naming contest for one of Earth’s quasi-moons. This is your chance to make your mark on the heavens. Submit your name ideas now through September, or vote on your favorites starting in November: https://radiolab.org/moon
Listen to the "Zoozve" episode here: https://youtu.be/AA-1Xg2t0wQ
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Video by W. Harry Fortuna
- published: 17 Aug 2024
- views: 2973
57:39
Memory and Forgetting | Radiolab Podcast
From the Radiolab podcast: Remembering is a tricky, unstable business. In this episode from 2007, we look behind the curtain of how memories are made and forgot...
From the Radiolab podcast: Remembering is a tricky, unstable business. In this episode from 2007, we look behind the curtain of how memories are made and forgotten.
The act of recalling in our minds something that happened in the past is an unstable and profoundly unreliable process — it’s easy come, easy go as we learn how true memories can be obliterated, and false ones added. Then, Oliver Sacks joins us to tell the story of an amnesiac whose love for his wife and music transcend his seven-second memory.
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From the Radiolab podcast: Remembering is a tricky, unstable business. In this episode from 2007, we look behind the curtain of how memories are made and forgotten.
The act of recalling in our minds something that happened in the past is an unstable and profoundly unreliable process — it’s easy come, easy go as we learn how true memories can be obliterated, and false ones added. Then, Oliver Sacks joins us to tell the story of an amnesiac whose love for his wife and music transcend his seven-second memory.
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- published: 11 May 2024
- views: 10182
31:33
Lose Lose | Radiolab Podcast
From the Radiolab podcast: This episode we look at a high-profile sporting event where, thanks to a quirk in the tournament rules, the best shot at winning was ...
From the Radiolab podcast: This episode we look at a high-profile sporting event where, thanks to a quirk in the tournament rules, the best shot at winning was to lose.
To celebrate the start of the Summer Olympic Games in Paris, France, we have an episode originally reported in 2016. No matter what sport you play, the object of the game is to win. And that’s hard enough to do. But we found the most paradoxical and upside down badminton match of all time. A match that dumbfounded spectators, officials, and even the players themselves. And it got us to wondering: what would sports look like if everyone played to lose?
Special thanks to Aparna Nancherla, Mark Phelan, Yuni Kartika, Greysia Polii, Joy Le Li, Mikyoung Kim, Stan Bischof, Vincent Liew, Kota Morikowa, Christ de Roij and Haeryun Kang.
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🌝 We have some exciting news! In our “Zoozve” episode, Radiolab named our first-ever quasi-moon, and now it's your turn! We've teamed up with The International Astronomical Union to launch a global naming contest for one of Earth’s quasi-moons. This is your chance to make your mark on the heavens. Submit your name ideas now through September, or vote on your favorites starting in November: https://radiolab.org/moon
Listen to the "Zoozve" episode here: https://youtu.be/AA-1Xg2t0wQ
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Video by W. Harry Fortuna
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From the Radiolab podcast: This episode we look at a high-profile sporting event where, thanks to a quirk in the tournament rules, the best shot at winning was to lose.
To celebrate the start of the Summer Olympic Games in Paris, France, we have an episode originally reported in 2016. No matter what sport you play, the object of the game is to win. And that’s hard enough to do. But we found the most paradoxical and upside down badminton match of all time. A match that dumbfounded spectators, officials, and even the players themselves. And it got us to wondering: what would sports look like if everyone played to lose?
Special thanks to Aparna Nancherla, Mark Phelan, Yuni Kartika, Greysia Polii, Joy Le Li, Mikyoung Kim, Stan Bischof, Vincent Liew, Kota Morikowa, Christ de Roij and Haeryun Kang.
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🌝 We have some exciting news! In our “Zoozve” episode, Radiolab named our first-ever quasi-moon, and now it's your turn! We've teamed up with The International Astronomical Union to launch a global naming contest for one of Earth’s quasi-moons. This is your chance to make your mark on the heavens. Submit your name ideas now through September, or vote on your favorites starting in November: https://radiolab.org/moon
Listen to the "Zoozve" episode here: https://youtu.be/AA-1Xg2t0wQ
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- published: 27 Jul 2024
- views: 4142
1:05:27
Colors: What is Color, Really? | Radiolab Podcast
From the Radiolab podcast: How does something so intangible as color pack such a visceral punch? In this episode, in the name of science and poetry, Jad Abumrad...
From the Radiolab podcast: How does something so intangible as color pack such a visceral punch? In this episode, in the name of science and poetry, Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich tear the rainbow to pieces.
To what extent is color a physical thing in the physical world, and to what extent is it created in our minds? We start with Sir Isaac Newton, who was so eager to solve this very mystery, he stuck a knife in his eye to pinpoint the answer. Then, we meet a sea creature — the mantis shrimp — that sees a rainbow way beyond anything humans can experience, and we track down a real-life tetrachromat, who we're pretty sure can see thousands (maybe even millions) more colors than the rest of us. And we end with an age-old question, that, it turns out, never even occurred to most humans until very recently: why is the sky blue?
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0:00 Intro
0:17 Rippin' the Rainbow a New One
18:26 The Perfect Yellow
44:16 Why Isn't the Sky Blue?
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Guests in this episode include James Gleick, Victoria Finlay, Jonah Lehrer, Mark Changizi, Thomas Cronin, Jay Neitz, Susan Hogan, Jason LaCroix, Ian Garrett, Guy Deutscher, and Jules Davidoff.
Special thanks to Michael Kershner and the Young New Yorkers Chorus; John McClay and the Grace Church Choral Society; and those folks from the Collegiate Choral and the Dessoff Choirs who joined us for the Choral Color Experiment. See behind-the-scenes footage of the recording session here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6favg2c078
Special thanks to all the musicians who were so generous to let us use their music and joined in on our covers of the rainbow project:
Reggie Watts with “Rainbow Connection,” Barbara Bennery with “Over the Rainbow,” Lonesome Organist with “Green Onions,” Nymph with “Brown Rice,” Yellow Ostrich with “Sound and Vision,” Rya Brass Band with “Paint It Black,” Nico Mulley with “Big Yellow Taxi,” Sherwater with “Black with the Color,” Eric Freelander with “Blue in Green,” Marcie Playground with “Whiter Shade of Pale,” The Heat with “Mellow Yellow,” Tao Win with “Blue.” Snow Blink you just heard with “Blue Moon.” Dan Deacon right here with “Colors.” Busmans Holiday, “Mr. Blue” and our very own Tim Howard, aka Soultero, performing “Green River.”
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Video by Michael Snyder and Kim Nowacki.
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From the Radiolab podcast: How does something so intangible as color pack such a visceral punch? In this episode, in the name of science and poetry, Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich tear the rainbow to pieces.
To what extent is color a physical thing in the physical world, and to what extent is it created in our minds? We start with Sir Isaac Newton, who was so eager to solve this very mystery, he stuck a knife in his eye to pinpoint the answer. Then, we meet a sea creature — the mantis shrimp — that sees a rainbow way beyond anything humans can experience, and we track down a real-life tetrachromat, who we're pretty sure can see thousands (maybe even millions) more colors than the rest of us. And we end with an age-old question, that, it turns out, never even occurred to most humans until very recently: why is the sky blue?
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Episode Segments:
0:00 Intro
0:17 Rippin' the Rainbow a New One
18:26 The Perfect Yellow
44:16 Why Isn't the Sky Blue?
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Guests in this episode include James Gleick, Victoria Finlay, Jonah Lehrer, Mark Changizi, Thomas Cronin, Jay Neitz, Susan Hogan, Jason LaCroix, Ian Garrett, Guy Deutscher, and Jules Davidoff.
Special thanks to Michael Kershner and the Young New Yorkers Chorus; John McClay and the Grace Church Choral Society; and those folks from the Collegiate Choral and the Dessoff Choirs who joined us for the Choral Color Experiment. See behind-the-scenes footage of the recording session here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6favg2c078
Special thanks to all the musicians who were so generous to let us use their music and joined in on our covers of the rainbow project:
Reggie Watts with “Rainbow Connection,” Barbara Bennery with “Over the Rainbow,” Lonesome Organist with “Green Onions,” Nymph with “Brown Rice,” Yellow Ostrich with “Sound and Vision,” Rya Brass Band with “Paint It Black,” Nico Mulley with “Big Yellow Taxi,” Sherwater with “Black with the Color,” Eric Freelander with “Blue in Green,” Marcie Playground with “Whiter Shade of Pale,” The Heat with “Mellow Yellow,” Tao Win with “Blue.” Snow Blink you just heard with “Blue Moon.” Dan Deacon right here with “Colors.” Busmans Holiday, “Mr. Blue” and our very own Tim Howard, aka Soultero, performing “Green River.”
Photo by Dorothea OLDANI [https://unsplash.com/@dorographie]
Video by Michael Snyder and Kim Nowacki.
- published: 12 Nov 2021
- views: 45560
43:14
Alone Enough | Radiolab Podcast
From the Radiolab podcast: Endurance aloneness, and what the pros have to say about it.
Cat Jaffee didn’t necessarily think of herself as someone who loved bei...
From the Radiolab podcast: Endurance aloneness, and what the pros have to say about it.
Cat Jaffee didn’t necessarily think of herself as someone who loved being alone. But then, the pandemic hit. And she got diagnosed with cancer. Actually, those two things happened on the exact same day, at the exact same hour. In the shadow of that nightmarish timing, Cat found her way to a sport that celebrated the solitude that was forced on her, and taught her how to not only embrace self-reliance, but to love it.
This sport is called competitive bikepacking. And in these competitions, riders have to bring everything they need to complete epic bike rides totally by themselves. They pack all the supplies they think they’ll need to survive, and have to refuse some of the simplest, subtlest, most intangible boosts that exist in our world.
But a leader has emerged in this sport. Her name is Lael Wilcox, and she’s a total rockstar in the world of competitive bikepacking. She’s broken all kinds of records. And also, some rules. Most recently, on this one ride she did across the entire state of Arizona.
We set out to find out what it means — for Cat, for Lael, and for any of us — to endure incredibly hard things, totally alone. The answer is on the course, in our bodies, and hidden in that mysterious place between us and the people we care about.
Episode Segments:
0:00 When Solitude Becomes a Shelter
09:00 Bikepack Racer Lael Wilcox Breaks All the Records
19:13 But What Is Alone Enough?
30:00 The Science of the Friendly Presence Advantage
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Guests in this episode include: Lael Wilcox, Rue Kaladyte, Sofiane Sehili, John Schilling, Jim Coan, Eszter Horanyi, Rebecca Rusch
Photo by Cat Jaffee. Art by Jared Bartman.
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From the Radiolab podcast: Endurance aloneness, and what the pros have to say about it.
Cat Jaffee didn’t necessarily think of herself as someone who loved being alone. But then, the pandemic hit. And she got diagnosed with cancer. Actually, those two things happened on the exact same day, at the exact same hour. In the shadow of that nightmarish timing, Cat found her way to a sport that celebrated the solitude that was forced on her, and taught her how to not only embrace self-reliance, but to love it.
This sport is called competitive bikepacking. And in these competitions, riders have to bring everything they need to complete epic bike rides totally by themselves. They pack all the supplies they think they’ll need to survive, and have to refuse some of the simplest, subtlest, most intangible boosts that exist in our world.
But a leader has emerged in this sport. Her name is Lael Wilcox, and she’s a total rockstar in the world of competitive bikepacking. She’s broken all kinds of records. And also, some rules. Most recently, on this one ride she did across the entire state of Arizona.
We set out to find out what it means — for Cat, for Lael, and for any of us — to endure incredibly hard things, totally alone. The answer is on the course, in our bodies, and hidden in that mysterious place between us and the people we care about.
Episode Segments:
0:00 When Solitude Becomes a Shelter
09:00 Bikepack Racer Lael Wilcox Breaks All the Records
19:13 But What Is Alone Enough?
30:00 The Science of the Friendly Presence Advantage
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Guests in this episode include: Lael Wilcox, Rue Kaladyte, Sofiane Sehili, John Schilling, Jim Coan, Eszter Horanyi, Rebecca Rusch
Photo by Cat Jaffee. Art by Jared Bartman.
- published: 31 Mar 2023
- views: 5768
59:10
Small Potatoes | Radiolab Podcast
From the Radiolab podcast: An ode to the small, the banal, the overlooked things that make up the fabric of our lives.
Most of our stories are about the big st...
From the Radiolab podcast: An ode to the small, the banal, the overlooked things that make up the fabric of our lives.
Most of our stories are about the big stuff: Important or dramatic events, big ideas that transform the world around us or inspire conflict and struggle and change. But most of our lives, day by day or hour by hour, are made up of not that stuff. Most of our lives are what we sometimes dismissively call “small potatoes.”
In this episode of Radiolab, Heather Radke challenges to focus on the small, the overlook, the everyday, and find out what happens when you take a good hard look at the things we all usually overlook.
Special thanks to Moeko Fujii, Kelley Conway, Robin Kelley, Jason Isaacs and Andrew Semans.
CONTENT ADVISORY: This episode contains a couple of curse words.
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From the Radiolab podcast: An ode to the small, the banal, the overlooked things that make up the fabric of our lives.
Most of our stories are about the big stuff: Important or dramatic events, big ideas that transform the world around us or inspire conflict and struggle and change. But most of our lives, day by day or hour by hour, are made up of not that stuff. Most of our lives are what we sometimes dismissively call “small potatoes.”
In this episode of Radiolab, Heather Radke challenges to focus on the small, the overlook, the everyday, and find out what happens when you take a good hard look at the things we all usually overlook.
Special thanks to Moeko Fujii, Kelley Conway, Robin Kelley, Jason Isaacs and Andrew Semans.
CONTENT ADVISORY: This episode contains a couple of curse words.
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- published: 27 Apr 2024
- views: 7545
53:50
The Alford Plea | Radiolab Podcast
From the Radiolab podcast: A man finds himself forever caught between guilt and innocence.
In 1995, a tragic fire in Pittsburgh set off a decades-long investi...
From the Radiolab podcast: A man finds himself forever caught between guilt and innocence.
In 1995, a tragic fire in Pittsburgh set off a decades-long investigation that sent Greg Brown Jr. to prison. But, after a series of remarkable twists, Brown found himself contemplating a path to freedom that involved a paradoxical plea deal — one that peels back the curtain on the criminal justice system and reveals it doesn’t work the way we think it does.
Special thanks to John Lentini, Amanda Gillooly, Fred Buckner, Debbie Steinmeyer, Marissa Bluestine, Jason Hazlewood, Meredith Kennedy, Kristen Vermilya, Joshua Ceballos and Lauren Cooperman.
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🌝 We have some exciting news! In our “Zoozve” episode, Radiolab named our first-ever quasi-moon, and now it's your turn! We've teamed up with The International Astronomical Union to launch a global naming contest for one of Earth’s quasi-moons. This is your chance to make your mark on the heavens. Submit your name ideas now through September, or vote on your favorites starting in November: https://radiolab.org/moon
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From the Radiolab podcast: A man finds himself forever caught between guilt and innocence.
In 1995, a tragic fire in Pittsburgh set off a decades-long investigation that sent Greg Brown Jr. to prison. But, after a series of remarkable twists, Brown found himself contemplating a path to freedom that involved a paradoxical plea deal — one that peels back the curtain on the criminal justice system and reveals it doesn’t work the way we think it does.
Special thanks to John Lentini, Amanda Gillooly, Fred Buckner, Debbie Steinmeyer, Marissa Bluestine, Jason Hazlewood, Meredith Kennedy, Kristen Vermilya, Joshua Ceballos and Lauren Cooperman.
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🌝 We have some exciting news! In our “Zoozve” episode, Radiolab named our first-ever quasi-moon, and now it's your turn! We've teamed up with The International Astronomical Union to launch a global naming contest for one of Earth’s quasi-moons. This is your chance to make your mark on the heavens. Submit your name ideas now through September, or vote on your favorites starting in November: https://radiolab.org/moon
Listen to the "Zoozve" episode here: https://youtu.be/AA-1Xg2t0wQ
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- published: 06 Jul 2024
- views: 4691
50:21
The World's Smartest Animal | Radiolab Podcast
From the Radiolab podcast: What’s the smartest animal in the world? We figure it out the best way we know how: an animal game show.
This episode begins with a ...
From the Radiolab podcast: What’s the smartest animal in the world? We figure it out the best way we know how: an animal game show.
This episode begins with a rant. This rant, in particular, comes from Dan Engber, a science writer who loves animals but despises animal intelligence research. Dan told us that so much of the way we study animals involves tests that we think show a human is smart — not the animals we intend to study.
Dan’s rant got us thinking: what is the smartest animal in the world? And if we threw out our human intelligence rubric, is there a fair way to figure it out?
Obviously, there is. And it’s a live game show, judged by Jad, Robert and a dog.
This final episode of G, our miniseries on intelligence, was recorded as a live show back in May 2019 at The Greene Space in New York City, and now we’re sharing that game show with you, again. Two science writers, Dan Engber and Laurel Braitman, and two comedians, Tracy Clayton and Jordan Mendoza, compete against one another to find the world’s smartest animal. They treated us to a series of funny, delightful stories about unexpectedly smart animals and helped us shift the way we think about intelligence across all the animals — including us.
Special thanks to Bill Berloni and Macy (the dog) and everyone at The Greene Space.
Listen to the whole G miniseries here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLHAUHF-RPhnrPTs7sr-KW5ZIS_vwANdj
Check out the video of the live event here: https://www.youtube.com/live/L3G_KUkjFds?si=K6KKdJzDMVdQlEcF
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From the Radiolab podcast: What’s the smartest animal in the world? We figure it out the best way we know how: an animal game show.
This episode begins with a rant. This rant, in particular, comes from Dan Engber, a science writer who loves animals but despises animal intelligence research. Dan told us that so much of the way we study animals involves tests that we think show a human is smart — not the animals we intend to study.
Dan’s rant got us thinking: what is the smartest animal in the world? And if we threw out our human intelligence rubric, is there a fair way to figure it out?
Obviously, there is. And it’s a live game show, judged by Jad, Robert and a dog.
This final episode of G, our miniseries on intelligence, was recorded as a live show back in May 2019 at The Greene Space in New York City, and now we’re sharing that game show with you, again. Two science writers, Dan Engber and Laurel Braitman, and two comedians, Tracy Clayton and Jordan Mendoza, compete against one another to find the world’s smartest animal. They treated us to a series of funny, delightful stories about unexpectedly smart animals and helped us shift the way we think about intelligence across all the animals — including us.
Special thanks to Bill Berloni and Macy (the dog) and everyone at The Greene Space.
Listen to the whole G miniseries here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLHAUHF-RPhnrPTs7sr-KW5ZIS_vwANdj
Check out the video of the live event here: https://www.youtube.com/live/L3G_KUkjFds?si=K6KKdJzDMVdQlEcF
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- published: 02 Mar 2024
- views: 7967
27:57
My Thymus, Myself | Radiolab Podcast
From the Radiolab podcast: The story of an organ that knows what is you, and what is not you.
In this episode senior correspondent Molly Webster takes us to a ...
From the Radiolab podcast: The story of an organ that knows what is you, and what is not you.
In this episode senior correspondent Molly Webster takes us to a spot that may be one of the most philosophical places in the universe: the thymus (not to be confused with the thyroid), an organ that knows what is you, and what is not you. Its mood may be existential, but its role is practical — the thymus is the biological training ground where the body's T-cells learn to protect itself from outside invaders (think: bacteria, coronaviruses). But this training is not the humdrum bit of science you might expect. It’s a magical shadowland with dire consequences.
Then, we’ll leave the thymus to visit a team of doctors who are using this organ that protects you as a way to protect someone else. Their work could change everything about the way we do organ transplants.
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Guests in this episode include: Jenni Punt, professor of immunology at the University of Pennsylvania, School of Veterinary Medicine; Sharon Stranford, immunologist and professor at Pomona College; Joe Turek, chief of pediatric heart surgery at Duke University; Mary-Louise Markert; professor emeritus of pediatrics at Duke University.
Special thanks to Hannah Meyer, Salomé Carcy, Josh Torres and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories for showing us a real-life (mouse) thymus for this episode. Special thanks also go to Diane Mathis and Kate Webb.
Wanna do a little light reading? Here’s the immunology textbook Jenni Punt and Sharon Stranford helped write, including a whole section on that funny little thing called AIRE: https://www.amazon.com/Kuby-Immunology-Jenni-Punt/dp/1464189781/ref=sr_1_1?crid=U2FM58TGG160&keywords=Kuby+Immunology&qid=1657053094&s=books&sprefix=kuby+immunology%2Cstripbooks%2C117&sr=1-1
The science paper that first described what happens inside the thymus as an, “immunological self shadow." https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.1075958
Photo illustration Anna Rascouët-Paz.
Video by Kim Nowacki.
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From the Radiolab podcast: The story of an organ that knows what is you, and what is not you.
In this episode senior correspondent Molly Webster takes us to a spot that may be one of the most philosophical places in the universe: the thymus (not to be confused with the thyroid), an organ that knows what is you, and what is not you. Its mood may be existential, but its role is practical — the thymus is the biological training ground where the body's T-cells learn to protect itself from outside invaders (think: bacteria, coronaviruses). But this training is not the humdrum bit of science you might expect. It’s a magical shadowland with dire consequences.
Then, we’ll leave the thymus to visit a team of doctors who are using this organ that protects you as a way to protect someone else. Their work could change everything about the way we do organ transplants.
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Guests in this episode include: Jenni Punt, professor of immunology at the University of Pennsylvania, School of Veterinary Medicine; Sharon Stranford, immunologist and professor at Pomona College; Joe Turek, chief of pediatric heart surgery at Duke University; Mary-Louise Markert; professor emeritus of pediatrics at Duke University.
Special thanks to Hannah Meyer, Salomé Carcy, Josh Torres and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories for showing us a real-life (mouse) thymus for this episode. Special thanks also go to Diane Mathis and Kate Webb.
Wanna do a little light reading? Here’s the immunology textbook Jenni Punt and Sharon Stranford helped write, including a whole section on that funny little thing called AIRE: https://www.amazon.com/Kuby-Immunology-Jenni-Punt/dp/1464189781/ref=sr_1_1?crid=U2FM58TGG160&keywords=Kuby+Immunology&qid=1657053094&s=books&sprefix=kuby+immunology%2Cstripbooks%2C117&sr=1-1
The science paper that first described what happens inside the thymus as an, “immunological self shadow." https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.1075958
Photo illustration Anna Rascouët-Paz.
Video by Kim Nowacki.
- published: 08 Jul 2022
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