Our Little Stupid Bodies

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

4.6 • 43.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Sometimes a seemingly silly question gets stuck in your craw and you can’t shake the feeling that something big lies behind it. We are constantly collecting these kinds of questions from our listeners, not to mention piling up a storehouse of our own “stupid” questions, as we lovingly call them. And a little while back, we noticed a little cluster of questions that seemed to have a shared edgy energy, and all led us to the same place: Our own bodies. So, today on Radiolab, we go down our throats and get under our skin, we take on evolution and anatomy and molecular cosmetics, to discover some very not-stupid answers to our seemingly stupid questions.

Special thanks to Mark Krasnow, Sachi Mulkey, Kari Leibowitz, Andrea Evers, Dr. Mona Amin, Benjamin Ungar, Praby Singh, Brye and Rachel Adler

EPISODE CREDITS:

Reported by - Molly Webster, Becca Bressler, Latif Nasser, and Alan Goffinskiwith help from Ekedi Fausther-KeeysProduced by - Sindhu Gnanasambandan, Becca Bressler, Alyssa Jeong Perry, Molly Webster with help from - Matt KieltyOriginal music and sound design contributed by - Jeremy Bloom with mixing help from - Arianne WackFact-checking by - Diane Kelley, Emily Kriegerand Edited by - Pat Walters and Alex Neason

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0:00.0	Heads up. Today's show does include a couple of curse words. So anyway, here we go.
0:07.0	Oh, wait, you're listening.
0:08.0	Okay.
0:10.0	Okay.
0:11.0	Okay.
0:12.0	All right.
0:13.0	You are listening to Radio Lab.
0:16.0	Radio.
0:17.0	From WNYC.
0:19.0	C.
0:20.0	Yeah.
0:21.0	Yeah.
0:22.0	This is radio lab. I'm Lulu Miller and I'm Latif Nasser. And today we have a very special thing because all year long we collect what we call stupid questions there are no
0:35.0	stupid questions maybe but actually I think there are you know questions we
0:38.8	there are not that's the official position of this show is there are no such thing as stupid questions.
0:45.4	I'm not sure I agree, but it doesn't matter because as a show that it's largely about curiosity,
0:50.0	people send us questions all the time.
0:51.8	Listeners, we at tweets tweets we get emails my kid
0:54.5	ask this or my cousin and then also on staff we have a little place where we
0:59.0	collect stupid questions throughout the year that's right And I was just looking back at the literally dozens
1:04.2	of my own questions.
1:05.2	Throw some out.
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