Black Box

Radiolab

WNYC Studios

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

4.6 • 44.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2014

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

This hour, we examine three very different kinds of black boxes—those peculiar spaces where it’s clear what’s going in, we know what’s coming out, but what happens in-between is a mystery. From the darkest parts of metamorphosis, to a sixty year-old secret among magicians, to the nature of consciousness itself, we confront the stubborn gaps in our understanding.

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0:00.0	Wait, you're listening.
0:03.5	Okay.
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0:07.4	All right.
0:08.8	You're listening to Radio Lab.
0:11.8	Radio Lab.
0:12.3	From W. N. Y.
0:14.4	C.
0:15.2	See?
0:15.5	Yep.
0:17.0	And NPR.
0:20.0	Batting first.
0:21.9	Producer Tim Howard.
0:25.4	Wait, I'm just going to get my level here.
0:29.5	It is such a beautiful day.
0:32.0	Beautiful. I think it's got to be like 75 degrees out or something.
0:33.0	Sunny.
0:34.6	This is Patrick Purden.
0:39.5	He's a professor in anesthesia at Harvard Medical School and works at Mass General Hospital.
0:40.9	You want to just tell me where we are?
0:41.3	Yeah, yeah.
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