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Radiolab

WNYC Studios

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

4.6 • 43.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Today, Lulu and Latif talk about some of their favorite episodes from Radiolab’s past that hold new power today.

Lulu points to an episode from 2008:

Imagine that you're a composer. Imagine getting the commission to write a song that will allow family members to face the death of a loved one. Well, composer David Lang had to do just that when a hospital in Garches, France, asked him to write music for their morgue, or 'Salle Des Departs.' What do you do? This piece was produced by Jocelyn Gonzales.

And Latif talks about an episode Jad made in 2009. Here’s how we described it back then:

Jad--a brand new father--wonders what's going on inside the head of his baby Amil.

(And don't worry, you don't need kids to enjoy this podcast.) The questions here are big: what is it like to be so brand new to the world? null of us have memories from this time, so how could we possibly ever know? Is it just chaos? Or, is there something more, some understanding from the very beginning? Jad found a development psychologist named Charles Fernyhough to explore some of his questions.

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0:00.0	Wait, you're listening to radio lab from WNYC.
0:16.0	Hi there, I'm Lachif Nasser.
0:22.5	And I'm Lulu Miller.
0:23.8	We already messed it up.
0:25.8	This is radio lab.
0:27.6	Okay, the reason we are being so awkward is because we are awkward, but also we're here
0:33.8	to ask for money.
0:35.5	The money that we need to keep doing our jobs that we love so much.
0:40.8	This is listener-funded journalism.
0:43.4	And you are the listener because you are listening to my voice right now.
0:48.0	And Lulu, what's the case?
0:49.5	Make the case.
0:50.5	Okay, the case is like, okay, have you ever turned to anyone and been like, oh, that reminds
0:54.8	me of this radio lab episode.
0:56.4	Okay, if you said that phrase, we're in your head.
1:00.8	And we're so honored to be in there.
1:03.8	But maybe like you could just buy us a drink.
1:07.5	Kind of thing.
1:08.5	Like we'll keep giving you factoids and new ways of seeing the world.
1:12.8	We hope just buy us a fancy coffee or a beer.
1:16.2	And we know like this is being a really hard year and a lot of people are strapped and
1:19.9	we understand that.
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