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| 0:00.0 | At Radio Lab, we love nothing more than nerding out about science, neuroscience, chemistry. |
| 0:07.0 | But, but we do also like to get into other kinds of stories. |
| 0:10.2 | Stories about policing or politics. |
| 0:12.9 | Country music. |
| 0:13.9 | Hockey. |
| 0:14.5 | Sex. |
| 0:15.6 | Of bugs. |
| 0:16.7 | Regardless of whether we're looking at science or not science, we bring a rigorous curiosity to get you the answers. |
| 0:23.3 | And hopefully make you see the world anew. |
| 0:24.9 | Radio Lab. Adventures on the edge of what we think we know. |
| 0:28.7 | Wherever you get your podcast. |
| 0:31.6 | It's unexplainable. I'm Noah. I'm Hassanfeld. |
| 0:34.5 | And a couple months ago, the most amazing person I'd never heard of died. |
| 0:41.4 | His name was James Harrison. He was 88, died in his sleep at a nursing home after a career |
| 0:47.4 | working as a clerk for a local railway, just a regular guy that somehow saved the lives |
| 0:54.0 | of almost two and a half million people. |
| 0:57.7 | I don't know, I still can't really wrap my head around it. |
| 1:01.3 | And it was just because his blood was really special. |
| 1:05.1 | It had this rare antibody, and doctors used it to make a medication that saved millions of babies. |
| 1:12.2 | But the part of the story I keep coming back to is that James had to keep donating his blood, |
| 1:18.8 | almost 1,200 times. |
| 1:21.6 | It's not like the doctors drew blood one time, found this special antibody, |
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