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Radiolab

Big Little Questions

Radiolab

WNYC Studios

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

4.643.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Here at the show, we get A LOT of questions, tiny questions, big questions, weird questions, poop questions. Today, we’re dumping the bucket out. First aired back in 2017, here’s a show of questions and, sometimes, answers. Cause, we get a lot of questions. Like, A LOT of questions. Tiny questions, big questions, short questions, long questions. Weird questions. Poop questions. We get them all. And over the years, as more and more of these questions arrived in our inbox, what happened was, guiltily, we put them off to the side, in a bucket of sorts, where they just sat around, unanswered. But now, we’re dumping the bucket out. Today, our producers pick up a few of the questions that spilled out of that bucket, and venture out into the great unknown to find answers to some of life's greatest mysteries: coincidences; miracles; life; death; fate; will; and, of course, poop. We have some exciting news! In the “Zoozve” episode, Radiolab named its first-ever quasi-moon, and now it's your turn! Radiolab has 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 Signup for our newsletter!! It includes short essays, recommendations, and details about other ways to interact with the show. Sign up (https://radiolab.org/newsletter)! Radiolab is supported by listeners like you. Support Radiolab by becoming a member of The Lab (https://members.radiolab.org/) today. Follow our show on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook @radiolab, and share your thoughts with us by emailing [email protected]. Leadership support for Radiolab’s science programming is provided by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Science Sandbox, a Simons Foundation Initiative, and the John Templeton Foundation. Foundational support for Radiolab was provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, it's Lautif. Before we get through today's episode, I wanted to play for you just a tiny bit of a chat that I had with our executive editor,

0:11.3

Soreoren Wheeler,

0:13.0

because I had this kind of burning question

0:15.0

that I wanted to ask him,

0:17.0

and it actually ended up inspiring

0:20.0

why we decided to play this episode for you today.

0:24.0

All right.

0:24.7

Okay.

0:25.7

Why are we really here?

0:27.8

Okay, I wanted to bring you here today because you are one of the few people

0:32.2

at this show who has been around for longer than I have

0:36.2

you started as an intern in what year sorry in 2007 2007 do you know 2007. 2007.

0:44.0

Do you know how many episodes of radio lab you have worked on?

0:48.0

It's got to be north of 400.

0:51.0

No.

0:52.0

Not that I totally made or, but you know, that I have... It's got to be north of 400. No.

0:52.5

Not that I totally made or, but you know, that I had something to do with.

0:56.4

Wait, how many shows have we even made?

0:58.8

Oh, it's probably like.

1:00.1

As a show.

1:01.1

How many episodes?

1:02.1

I think probably around 500 or something. You know, I mean there's

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