12: Proof

Radiolab

WNYC Studios

Natural Sciences, History, Documentary, Science, Society & Culture

4.6 • 44.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2009

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

This week on the podcast, we continue our meditations on death. Our After Life episode had eleven meditations, and now we’re gonna throw a new one at you each day, all week long, culminating in a very special treat at the end of the week.

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0:00.0	Wait, you're listening.
0:01.1	Okay.
0:02.4	All right.
0:03.6	Okay.
0:05.0	All right.
0:06.4	You're listening to Radio Lab.
0:09.4	Radio Lab.
0:10.1	Shorts.
0:11.3	From W-N-Y-C.
0:14.7	C?
0:15.0	Yes.
0:16.5	And N-P-R.
0:18.8	Number 12.
0:20.4	Proof.
0:21.8	Okay, so I read an article in The New Scientist by author Mary Roach, and it starts like this.
0:28.9	What happens after you die?
0:31.1	I can name you 47 men who've tried to harness the rational horsepower of science to answer
0:36.2	this most floaty question.
0:40.7	Some were physicians, some physicists, some psychologists.
0:48.7	Two were Nobel Prize winners. Of them, only one to date has landed irrefutable proof.
0:53.0	Man's name was Thomas Lynn Bradford.
0:53.7	Yes. And that is Mary Roach. Hi. How are you? I'm fine. How are you, Chad? I'm good. Mary is the author of several books with wonderfully succinct titles. Spook, Stiff, Bunk. Those are three different books. The one we're talking about today is Spook. The subtitle of Science Tackles the Afterlife. Which brings us to Mr. Bradford. Thomas Lynn Bradford was a spiritualist who lived in the early part of the
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