Summary
As our co-Hosts Lulu Miller and Latif Nasser are out this week, we are re-sharing the perfect episode to start the summer season!
This one, which first aired in 2014, tells the strange story of a small group of islands that keeps us wondering: will our most sacred natural landscapes inevitably get swallowed up by humans? How far are we willing to go to stop that from happening?
This hour is about the Galápagos archipelago, which inspired Darwin’s theory of evolution and natural selection. Nearly 200 years later, the Galápagos are undergoing rapid changes that continue to pose — and perhaps answer — critical questions about the fragility and resilience of life on Earth.
Episode Credits:Reported and produced by Tim Howard.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, this is Radio Lab. |
| 0:20.4 | I'm Sorn Wheeler, Lulu and Lutha for Out this week. |
| 0:23.3 | So I'm just going to step into play an episode that, well, if I'm honest, it's just one that |
| 0:27.8 | I felt like hearing and running again at this moment, just because. |
| 0:32.5 | So today, a little step back in time to one of my favorite radio producers, Tim Howard, |
| 0:37.6 | telling us the story of a truly singular spot on the face of our Earth. |
| 0:42.2 | Here we go. |
| 0:43.2 | Hey, I'm Chad Abumrod. |
| 0:44.2 | I'm Robert Krollwich. |
| 0:45.2 | This is Radio Lab and today, we begin on a plane. |
| 0:49.5 | Thank you, Brooke. |
| 0:50.5 | Which carried our newly married producer, Tim Howard, to the Galapagos. |
| 0:55.2 | So I took the plane from Keto. |
| 0:58.5 | We had just finished the honeymoon that morning. |
| 1:06.0 | They make announcements and at a certain point, the flight attendants, they open up all of |
| 1:10.9 | the overhead bins and they walk up and down, spraying some sort of insecticide for what, |
| 1:18.2 | for like invasive species, I think. |
| 1:20.6 | Yeah, like whatever bugs might have snuck out of the plane. |
| 1:23.9 | By this point, I'm getting super excited and I'm thinking about Darwin and I start reading |
| 1:30.0 | voyage of the Beagle, his book, on this nook that I had bought for the trip. |
| 1:34.6 | But then my power supply didn't work and my nook died. |
| 1:38.1 | That's a big problem for Darwin, too. |
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