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The Wonder of Youth - Radiolab
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The Wonder of Youth. At the age of thirteen, mathematician Steve Strogatz. Was astonished to find that pendulums and water fountains had a strange relationship that had previously been completely hidden from him. And as a young boy, neurologist and author Oliver Sacks. Parabolas, a video by Will Hoffman and Derek Paul Boyle:. Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain. Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order. Special thanks to Caitlin Wockenfuss and her Brooklyn Tech cheer squad. It's cello- and ...
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60 Words - Radiolab
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Season 12 Episode 7. Laquo; previous episode. Next episode ». Original artwork and Radiolab logo by Lucy Engelman). This hour we pull apart one sentence, written in the hours after September 11th, 2001, that has led to the longest war in U.S. history. We examine how just 60 words of legal language have blurred the line between war and peace. Produced by Matt Kielty and Kelsey Padgett with original music by Dylan Keefe. Benjamin Wittes is editor in chief of 'Lawfare' a blog on national security. I'm not s...
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Morality - Radiolab
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Season 2 Episode 3. Laquo; previous episode. Next episode ». Where does our sense of right and wrong come from? We watch chimps at a primate research center sharing blackberries, observe 3-year-olds fighting over toys, and tour Eastern State Penitentiary - the country's first penitentiary. Plus, a story of land grabbing, indentured servitude, and slumlording in the fourth grade. UPDATE: Jad is now a father! And Frans de Waal. Chimp Fights and Trolley Rides. How do we develop our sense of morality? An exp...
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Phantom Limbs - Radiolab
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Courtesy of the National Museum of Health and Medicine, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, D.C., CP 1043. Warning: this section gets gorey. We'll start off with fatality, trauma, and bear attack. Neurologists Robert Sapolsky. Weigh in on 19th century philosopher William James,. And his theory of emotion (and of bears), which says emotion is a slave to physiology. And then we'll speed back into the present-day to see brain doctor V.S. Ramachandran. What is an Emotion? RSS Feed for Comments.
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War of the Worlds - Radiolab
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Season 4 Episode 3. War of the Worlds. Live at the FitzGerald Theater. Laquo; previous episode. Next episode ». In our very first live hour, we take a deep dive into one of the most controversial moments in broadcasting history: Orson Welles' 1938 radio play about Martians invading New Jersey. "The War of the Worlds" caused panic when it originally aired, and it's continued to fool people since- from Santiago, Chile to Buffalo, New York to a particularly disastrous evening in Quito, Ecuador. When Orson W...
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Memory and Forgetting - Radiolab
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Season 3 Episode 4. Laquo; previous episode. Next episode ». This hour of Radiolab, a look behind the curtain of how memories are made.and forgotten. Remembering 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. And Oliver Sacks joins us to tell the story of an amnesiac whose love for his wife and music transcend his 7-second memory. Could taking photographs make you forget, not remember? What is a memory?
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The Good Show - Radiolab
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Season 9 Episode 1. Laquo; previous episode. Next episode ». In this episode, a question that haunted Charles Darwin: if natural selection boils down to survival of the fittest, how do you explain why one creature might stick its neck out for another? Do we really live in a selfish, dog-eat-dog world? Or has evolution carved out a hidden code that rewards genuine cooperation? Walter F. Rutkowski. An Equation for Good. In a brief snippet from a conversation Robert had with Richard Dawkins. I Need a Hero.
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What's Up, Doc? - Radiolab
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What's Up, Doc? Tuesday, November 06, 2012 - 04:00 PM. Mel Blanc was known as "the man of 1,000 voices," but the actual number may have been closer to 1,500. Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Tweety, Barney Rubble - all Mel. His characters made him one of the most beloved men in America. And in 1961, when a car crash left him in a coma, these characters may have saved him. Mel Blanc wasn't just a voice man. He created entire personalities, each with its own nuances and hilarious quirks. His son Noel Blanc. Dead's M...
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Secrets of Success - Radiolab
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Monday, July 26, 2010 - 10:15 PM. Doesn't like Gifted and Talented Education Programs. And he doesn't believe that innate ability can fully explain superstar hockey players or billionaire software giants. In this podcast, we listen in on a conversation between Robert and Malcolm recorded at the 92nd St Y. Robert asks Malcolm if he's a 'genius denier,' and Malcolm asks Robert if he's uncomfortable with the power of love, as they duke it out over questions of luck, talent, passion, and success. Hard workin...
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The Living Room - Radiolab
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Thursday, April 09, 2015 - 03:18 PM. Photo Credit: Bernhard Suter/Flickr). We're thrilled to present a piece from one of our favorite podcasts, Love Radio (Nick van der Kolk and Brendan Baker). Producer Briana Breen brings us the story: Diane’s new neighbors across the way never shut their curtains, and that was the beginning of an intimate, but very one-sided relationship. Please listen to as much of Love Radio as you can. And Nick van der Kolk. RSS Feed for Comments. Apr 17 2016 12:04 PM. Feb 20 2016 0...