After Life

Radiolab

WNYC Studios

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

4.6 • 44.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2009

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

This hour: Radiolab stares down the very moment of passing, and speculates about what may lie beyond.

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0:00.0	Wait, you're listening.
0:03.1	Okay.
0:04.4	All right.
0:05.6	Okay.
0:07.0	All right.
0:08.4	You're listening to Radio Lab.
0:11.4	Radio Lab.
0:11.9	From W. N. Y.
0:13.9	C.
0:14.8	See?
0:15.1	Yeah.
0:16.6	And NPR.
0:18.9	One.
0:20.3	When you die, we can all agree on this, something changes.
0:25.2	You get the feeling that something that was there, isn't there, or leaves.
0:29.9	But what leaves?
0:31.4	One, two, three.
0:32.2	Can you hear me?
0:33.0	We talked to a biologist at Princeton University, Lee Silver, who told us a story about a guy back in 1907 who did a very interesting experiment.
0:42.3	His name was Duncan McDougal.
0:43.3	I don't remember exactly who he was.
0:45.3	He was a doctor.
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