Mutant Rights

Radiolab

WNYC Studios

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

4.6 • 44.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2011

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast short, a strange twist of legal taxonomy causes a dispute over whether X-MEN action figures are toys or dolls and sparks a court case about what it means to be human.

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0:00.0	Wait, you're listening.
0:01.1	Okay.
0:02.4	All right.
0:03.6	Okay.
0:05.0	All right.
0:06.5	You're listening to Radio Lab.
0:09.4	Radio Lab.
0:10.1	Shorts!
0:11.6	From W. N. Y.
0:13.8	C.
0:14.7	See?
0:15.0	Yes.
0:16.5	And NPR.
0:18.5	Hey, I'm Chad Epumran.
0:19.9	I'm Robert Crilwich.
0:20.8	This is Radio Lab.
0:21.6	Podcast. And today on the podcast, we're going to talk about containers. Well, no. Yeah, why not? Well, because it's bigger than containers. It's categories. Ugh. Because... It's like the boring way. It's the boring word for containers. No, it's not at all boring. Taxonomy. Yes, you could, Yes. This is a story about what goes where and what doesn't go there and what should go there if you were only smarter about it. Aik, Srivancras, are you around? Yeah, that's what I want to talk about. So you have a story to tell us, right? Yeah. Yeah, yeah. So you tell us your story. Set it up for us, Ike. Well, let's start back in 1993. Okay. With two customs attorneys.
0:56.9	I'm Sherry Singer. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So you tell us your story. Set it up for us, Ike. Well, let's start back in 1993.
1:12.1	Okay. With two customs attorneys. I'm Sherry Singer. And my name is Indy Singh. Singer and Sing. Singer and Sing. And one day, the two of them are looking at this customs book called the Harmonized Tariff Schedule. What was it called? What? Harmonized tariff. Harmonized today. He almost harmonized at the harmonized terrifist.
1:13.9	It's this huge book,
1:11.8	chock full of schedule. What was it called again, the harmonized? Harmonized tariff. Harmonized. He almost harmonized at the harmonized tariff.
1:16.3	It's this huge book, chock full of customs classifications.
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