Killer Empathy

Radiolab

WNYC Studios

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

4.6 • 44.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2012

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Sometimes being a good scientist requires putting aside your emotions. But what happens when objectivity isn't enough to make sense of a seemingly senseless act of violence? In this short, Jad and Robert talk to an entomologist about the risks, and the rewards, of trying to see the world through someone else's eyes.

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0:00.0	Wait, you're listening.
0:01.1	Okay.
0:21.5	All right. Okay. All right. You're listening to Radio Lab. Radio Lab. Shorts! From WN. N-Y. C. See? Yes. And NPR. Three, two, one. Hey, I'm Jada Boomrod. I'm Robert Quilwich.
0:22.4	This is Radio Lab.
0:36.7	The podcast. And today on the podcast, well, first, we've got a story from our old producer of ours, Lulu Miller. She's not old. She's just has been with us and now is at school. Right. She's actually kind of young. Chronologically, she's not old.
0:38.3	She's old to us.
0:39.4	She's an old soul.
0:38.3	In any case, this is a story about school. Right. She's actually kind of young. Chronologically, she's not old. She's old to us.
0:39.4	She's an old soul.
0:47.4	In any case, this is a story about some of the sticky issues that result when you try and empathize with another being.
0:47.9	Yeah.
0:49.9	It's a very different story than one we've ever told.
0:52.3	It started for Lulu when she spoke with them.
0:54.0	Well, she'll handle the introductions.
0:55.3	Can you introduce yourself?
0:59.9	Award-winning author, fantastic husband.
1:01.4	Dad of the year.
1:06.2	Dad of the year. No, I'm Jeff Lockwood. I'm a professor at the University of Wyoming.
1:08.0	Jeff is an entomologist.
1:09.4	You mean like a bug guy? He's a bug guy. And mostly he studies crickets and grasshoppers.
1:13.2	And this story involves a kind of cricket that's well different.
1:18.1	The guerrillas.
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