Buttons Not Buttons

Radiolab

WNYC Studios

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

4.6 • 44.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2014

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Buttons are usually small and unimportant. But not always. Sometimes they are a portal to power, freedom, and destruction. Today we thread together tales of taking charge of the little things in life, of fortunes made and lost, and of the ease with which the world can end. Confused? Push the button marked Play. Special thanks for the music of Brian Carpenter's Ghost Train Orchestra

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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.
0:08.5	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.
0:19.0	How did you even get onto? I feel like buttons has just become a fixture. How did you even get on to...
0:21.3	I feel like buttons has just become a fixture?
0:23.9	How did this happen?
0:25.0	Okay, well, can I...
0:25.8	Who's to blame for this?
0:27.0	Let me... Let me start.
0:28.1	I'm going to start.
0:28.6	This is reporter Lattif Nasser, and today on Radio Lab, Lathas and I are bringing Jed and you three wildly different stories about buttons.
0:39.8	That are really about power and freedom and destruction.
0:40.8	So this all started because I could not convince any of my friends to go to the elevator
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