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Radiolab

Sleepless in South Sudan

Radiolab

WNYC Studios

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

4.644.5K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2011

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Carl Zimmer is one of our go-to guys when we need help untangling a complicated scientific idea. But in this short, he unravels something much more personal.

Transcript

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0:02.4

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0:03.6

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0:06.4

You're listening to Radio Lab.

0:09.4

Radio Lab.

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Shorts!

0:11.5

From W-N-Y-C.

0:14.7

See?

0:15.0

Yes.

0:16.5

And NPR.

0:18.8

Hey, I'm Chad Abumrod.

0:20.3

I'm Robert Crilwich. This is Radio Lab.

0:21.6

The podcast.

0:22.6

And today on the podcast, something a little different.

0:25.6

We say that often.

0:26.6

We do.

0:27.6

This is more different than our usual different.

0:29.6

Yeah, this comes from our friend Carl Zimmer, who's been on the show a bunch of times,

0:33.6

helping us untangle some complicated scientific things.

0:36.6

This time, we find him not in our normal area, in our show. He's in the basement of a bar,

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