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2009/02/01
Radio Lab: Yellow Fluff & Other Curious Encounters
Ah, discovery. One of the great and noble pursuits of humankind. Also one of the most dangerous, frustrating, ego-driven, transcendent, sublime, dirty, long, demoralizing, inspiring……you get the idea. Why are inquiry and the pursuit of knowledge so seductive? We take a grand tour of characters and their stories of love and loss in the name of science.
2009/01/25
Radio Lab: Diagnosis
Humans love to solve problems. In this day and age, we have astonishing technology available as tools to help us --- chemicals and computers and machines that can pinpoint things imperceptible to humans. But humans aren't quite obsolete. Intuition and creativity still lead the way both in discovering that nature of the problem, and in dealing with that knowledge.
2009/01/18
Radio Lab: Race
The U.S. Census defines five races, and an "other" category. When the human genome was first fully mapped in 2000, Bill Clinton, Craig Venter, and Francis Collins took the stage and pronounced that "The concept of race has no genetic or scientific basis."
Great words spoken with great intentions. But what does that mean and where does it leave us? It doesn't seem to have wiped out our evolving conversation about race.
2009/01/11
Radio Lab: Sperm
In this one-hour special from WNYC, hosts Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich ask the question "Why so many sperm?" They turn to the animal kingdom to answer that question, which lands us on a tour of sperm battles in ducks, flying pig sperm, and promiscuous whippoorwills. They ponder the necessity of males in a world where sperm can be frozen and kept for all eternity. And they sit quietly in a stark sonic space with a widow struggling to keep some essence of her husband alive.
2009/01/04
Radiolab - Choice
In this one hour special the hosts of Radio Lab take a journey around the country to understand how emotion and logic interact to guide us through our options, we ponder how we get through the million choices and decisions we make every day. Forget free will, some important decisions could come down to a steaming cup of coffee.
