Summary
One of the most consistent questions we get at the show is from parents who want to know which episodes are kid-friendly and which aren’t. So today, we're releasing a separate feed, Radiolab for Kids. To kick it off, we're rerunning an all-time favorite episode: Space.
In the 60’s, space exploration was an American obsession. This hour, we chart the path from romance to increasing cynicism.
We begin with Ann Druyan, widow of Carl Sagan, with a story about the Voyager expedition, true love, and a golden record that travels through space. And astrophysicist Neil de Grasse Tyson explains the Coepernican Principle, and just how insignificant we are.
Support Radiolab today at Radiolab.org/donate.
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, everybody, it's Chad. |
| 0:04.0 | Okay, I want to announce something that's kind of new. |
| 0:06.5 | You know, we've been making radio lab for a long time, |
| 0:09.6 | almost 20 years, and one of the questions that we get, |
| 0:12.8 | almost more than any other, is which of your episodes |
| 0:17.9 | are kid friendly? |
| 0:19.5 | Which episodes can I listen to with my kids? |
| 0:22.3 | And I felt like a really important question to answer now |
| 0:27.4 | that so many of us are isolated in our homes |
| 0:29.3 | and having to figure out homeschooling. |
| 0:33.2 | I'm certainly in that situation. |
| 0:34.8 | So we wanted to help you guys out. |
| 0:38.2 | So we launched a new podcast. |
| 0:40.3 | It's called Radio Lab for Kids. |
| 0:42.0 | Basically, we went through our entire archives, |
| 0:45.0 | gathered together some of our most favorite kid friendly |
| 0:47.8 | episodes, and put them all in one place. |
| 0:50.3 | You can go to radiolab.org and subscribe to it there, |
| 0:53.9 | or wherever you get your podcasts, |
| 0:57.0 | search for radio lab for kids, and you'll find it. |
| 1:01.1 | And we're gonna keep adding to this feed, |
| 1:02.8 | and just to kick the whole thing off, |
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