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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Radio Lab. |
| 0:07.8 | From New York Public Radio. |
| 0:09.6 | Public Radio. |
| 0:10.5 | W. N.Y.C. |
| 0:15.8 | And NPR. |
| 0:17.2 | I'm Chad Abumrod. |
| 0:18.2 | And I'm Robert Krollwich. |
| 0:19.3 | And this is Radio Lab. |
| 0:20.4 | You ever wondered why it is |
| 0:21.7 | that all living things die? I do wonder about that, actually. Which keeps me up at night. |
| 0:28.6 | Which always leads me to the next question. Do we have to? Do I have to? The topic of our show, |
| 0:34.8 | as a matter of fact. And the natural place to begin, to look for an answer, |
| 0:39.0 | is in a garage. |
| 0:46.4 | So here we are in your garage. Here we are in my garage. The owner of this particular garage |
| 0:51.0 | is one Leonard Hayflick. He is a biologist. |
| 0:56.0 | He takes me to the corner where he's got this... |
| 0:58.5 | Describe what we're looking at here. |
| 1:00.3 | Well, what we're looking at is a barrel-shaped device. |
| 1:04.2 | It's a metal canister that is shaped kind of like a thermos, except big. |
| 1:09.0 | So I'm opening the lid. |
| 1:11.6 | He twists off the top and... |
| 1:14.6 | Wooosh! |
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