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Radiolab

WNYC Studios

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

4.644.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2011

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

What do you do when your own worst enemy is...you? This hour, Radiolab looks for ways to gain the upper hand over those forces inside us--from unhealthy urges, to creative insights--that seem to have a mind of their own.

Transcript

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0:02.6

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0:03.9

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0:05.1

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0:06.5

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0:08.0

You're listening to Radio Lab.

0:10.9

Radio Lab.

0:11.4

From W-N-Y-S.

0:13.4

C.

0:14.3

See?

0:14.6

Yeah.

0:16.1

And NPR.

0:18.7

Okay, from the top.

0:19.8

You ready?

0:20.2

Yep.

0:37.6

Hello. Hello. How are you doing? We're going to start things off today with this lady. Zelda, Gamson. Welcome to our little spot. It's beautiful. Thank you. She's 80 years old, and these days, Zelda lives a quiet life by the sea. On Martha's Vineyard. Did you have some coffee?

0:39.9

She visits with her grandkids, does some gardening.

0:44.3

We have a bird feeder, and it is the bird show of the world.

0:47.0

But life for Zelda wasn't always so calm.

0:50.9

Back in the 60s, when our story begins, she was a very different kind of lady.

0:53.5

She even went by a different nickname.

0:55.1

Just Z.

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