Summary
We live our lives at human speed, we experience and interact with the world on a human time scale. In this episode, which first aired in its entirety in the winter of 2013, we put ourselves through the paces. We examine a material that exists between two states of matter, take a ride on the death-defying roller coaster that is the stock market, open up our internal clocks of thought, and achieve mastery over the fastest thing in the universe.
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| 0:00.0 | Wait, you're listening to Radio Lab from WNYC. |
| 0:16.0 | Lulu, what the? |
| 0:20.8 | Radio Lab. |
| 0:21.8 | Today we got for you, it's really a classic Radio Lab. |
| 0:27.0 | It's called speed, but I would call it timeless. |
| 0:31.0 | It's totally great. |
| 0:32.0 | It's a total classic Radio Lab. |
| 0:33.8 | It's about things moving faster than we can perceive. |
| 0:36.2 | And also things moving slower than our patients can handle. |
| 0:42.1 | And it includes moments like this one. |
| 0:45.8 | Everything that I'm experiencing already happened. |
| 0:52.2 | So grab your lava lamp, sit back in your bean bag chair. |
| 0:59.2 | And joo. |
| 1:07.0 | Will you forgive me if I actually leave my phone on vibrate because my wife is pregnant |
| 1:13.2 | and do literally any day. |
| 1:16.6 | No kidding. |
| 1:17.6 | If this vibrates, I might ruin your radio program. |
| 1:20.0 | That's fine, it's all worse. |
| 1:21.8 | So recently I had a conversation with this guy, Josh, for. |
| 1:25.1 | He's a journalist. |
| 1:26.1 | Science journalist. |
| 1:27.1 | And he's told me about something that's been obsessing him recently, this very odd |
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