Radiolab Extra: Henrietta Lacks

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🗓️ 19 April 2017

⏱️ 35 minutes

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With all the recent talk about HBO's upcoming film, we decided it would be good time to re-run our story of one woman's medically miraculous cancer cells, and how Henrietta Lacks changed modern science and, eventually, her family's understanding of itself. Support Radiolab by becoming a member today at Radiolab.org/donate.

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0:00.0	Hey, this is Chad. We just wanted to throw it an extra episode into our feed and on our
0:04.5	movie that we're really excited about. But first, a couple weeks ago, I stepped in here
0:11.7	and I sort of laid out a challenge grant that we had gotten from the Tao Foundation. And the
0:17.4	deal was, if you remember, that if 700 of you guys listening, step forward,
0:22.8	agreed to kick in $7 a month to support the making of Radio Lab, then the Tao Foundation would give us
0:28.7	$70,000 to help make the show. So, again, 700 people decide to donate $7 a month. We get $70,000.
0:36.9	That was the deal.
0:37.7	All right, so how did we do?
0:39.8	How did you do?
0:42.4	You crushed it.
0:45.8	Just crushed it.
0:47.3	Okay, we needed 700 people.
0:48.8	As of right now, I think we're at somewhere over 3,000.
0:52.3	You did so well.
0:53.7	We did so well.
0:55.3	The Tao Foundation just came back to us and up to the Annie.
0:59.2	Full-on stretch goal.
1:00.9	Because here's the thing.
1:01.7	3,000 people is amazing, but that is just a tiny percentage of the people who actually
1:07.1	listen to this podcast.
1:08.3	So, their thinking is let's capitalize on this momentum,
1:11.3	get the other 99.9% involved.
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