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Undiscovered

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Undiscovered

Science Friday and WNYC Studios

Wnyc, Society & Culture, 805813, Science, History, Friday, Studios

4.6768 Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2017

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

We're a podcast about the left turns, false starts, and lucky breaks that move science forward.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Listener supported W.NYC. Studios.

0:07.0

From the Makers of Science Friday, something a little different.

0:12.0

Okay, it's another beautiful day here in the Miller range.

0:16.0

It's something like minus 20 something. That's really intense.

0:20.0

It's our new podcast about science in the making.

0:22.9

About the people behind the scenes and the bizarre, beautiful places it takes them.

0:28.1

This part of Antarctica is incredibly beautiful.

0:31.3

And it's really hard to capture in a photograph.

0:34.0

There's no trees. There are no human structures.

0:36.7

We're just this tiny speck. It's like you don't matter at all. There are no human structures. We're just this tiny speck.

0:38.4

It's like you don't matter at all. You are nothing out there. I'm Ella Fedder and I'm Annie Minoff

0:46.5

and we're the hosts of Undiscovered. Starting next Tuesday, we're going to hunt for space rocks

0:51.1

in Antarctica, look at sex research in pre-Nazi Germany, and dig up an old

0:55.2

chain letter sent by a famous psychologist.

0:57.4

Oh my god, is this Stanley Milgram's writing?

0:59.6

I think so.

1:01.6

Undiscovered is about the people who do the work and take the risks.

1:05.5

Like the lowly grad student who busts into his advisor's office with a pretty out there proposition.

1:13.3

I thought, okay, I'm going to tell Steve about this.

1:14.4

Duncan one day.

1:15.1

I got to tell him.

1:18.6

Banged on my door the way he used to do, and he would bang very insistently.

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