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Hey I'm Chad Abumran, this is Radio Lab, Corona Dispatch 5.

So I grew up in a lab.

And you know what I mean is my mother was a researcher, I would go to her research lab

every day after school.

I'm very familiar with what a research place feels like.

People are focused, it's very quiet.

So it has been interesting to me to listen to the voice memos you're about to hear.

Because it is not the sound I'm used to, it's not the sound that I associate with research.

We forget that throughout much of the history of science science was done on the battlefield.

There wasn't that sort of division between the research people over here and the patient

people over there.

It's all the same thing.

And maybe in this moment we've kind of gone back to that state a little bit.

So some of the stuff that you're going to hear in this Dispatch might be a little hard

to listen to.

So this might not be the one to listen to with your kids, although we do have a feed called

Radio Lab for Kids which you should check out.

But I wanted you to hear it to give you a sense of what science on the battlefield actually

sounds like now.

Story really centers around this guy.

Nice.

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