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Radiolab

Galapagos

Radiolab

WNYC Studios

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

4.644.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2014

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Today, the strange story of a small group of islands that raise a big question: is it inevitable that even our most sacred natural landscapes will eventually get swallowed up by humans? And just how far are we willing to go to stop that from happening? We are dedicating a whole hour to the Galapagos archipelago, the place that inspired Darwin’s theory of evolution and natural selection. 179 years later, the Galapagos are undergoing rapid changes that continue to pose -- and possibly answer -- critical questions about the fragility and resilience of life on Earth.   For transcripts, see individual segment pages.

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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

Hey, I'm Chad. I boomrod.

0:20.6

I'm Robert Crilwich.

0:21.8

This is Radio Lab, and today we begin on a plane.

0:25.8

Thank you, Brooke.

0:26.5

Which carried our newly married producer, Tim Howard, to the Galapagos.

0:31.4

So I took the plane from Quito.

0:34.6

We had just finished the honeymoon that morning.

0:37.2

Me and Brooke. They make announcements,

0:43.8

and at a certain point, the flight attendants, they open up all of the overhead bins and they walk up

0:48.7

and down spraying some sort of insecticide. For what?

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