Revising the Fault Line

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🗓️ 27 June 2017

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

A new tussle over an old story, and some long-held beliefs, with neurologist and author Robert Sapolsky. Four years ago, we did a story about a man with a starling obsession that made us question our ideas of responsibility and justice. We thought we’d found some solid ground, but today Dr. Sapolsky shows up and takes us down a rather disturbing rabbit hole. Support Radiolab by becoming a member today at Radiolab.org/donate.

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0:00.0	Wait, you're listening.
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0:08.5	You're listening to Radio Lab.
0:11.4	Radio Lab.
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0:13.9	C.
0:14.8	See?
0:15.1	Yeah.
0:19.2	Maybe all of us can sit on the catch.
0:20.6	I can, I can pull that chair over. So we're going to sit on the catch. I can rug and pull that chair over.
0:23.1	So we're going to start with a story from our producer, Pat Walters, about a couple.
0:27.3	Oh, my word.
0:29.3	Okay, so I mentioned a couple episodes ago, by the way, this is Jad, Radio Lab,
0:34.5	that we'll be bringing back some episodes back into the flow from time
0:37.8	and time, episodes that we haven't stopped thinking about that feel truer to us now than before
0:43.7	or maybe the opposite.
0:44.9	You know, episodes that we still end up getting into fights with people about.
0:48.1	And a couple of years ago, we ran a story about a guy named Kevin and a little bit more recently.
0:54.3	Hello, Robert. Are you there? Yes.
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