The Memory Palace

Radiolab

WNYC Studios

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

4.6 • 44.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2019

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Nate DiMeo was preoccupied with the past, and how we relate to it, from a very young age. For the last decade or so he's been scratching this itch with The Memory Palace, a podcast he created. He does things very differently than we do, but his show has captured the hearts of Radiolab staffers, past and present, time and time again. So we decided to get Nate into the studio to share a few of his episodes with us and talk to us about how and why he does what he does. He brought us stories about the Morse Code, the draft lottery, and then he hit us with a brand new episode about a bull on trial, that bounces off a story we did pretty recently. More history on scrub bulls. Follow @thememorypalace on Twitter. This episode was produced with help from Bethel Habte. Support Radiolab today at Radiolab.org/donate. Other staff favorites: Zulu Charlie Romeo Notes on an Imagined Plaque Snakes! Outliers

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0:00.0	Wait, you're listening?
0:03.1	Okay.
0:04.4	All right.
0:05.6	Okay.
0:07.0	All right.
0:08.5	You're listening to Radio Lab.
0:11.4	Radio Lab.
0:11.9	From W. N. Y.
0:13.9	C.
0:14.8	See?
0:15.1	Yeah.
0:19.0	That means among all the male Holstein's in the country, more than 99% of them can be traced back to one of two bulls.
0:25.0	Wow, that's amazing.
0:26.1	Both born in the 1960s.
0:27.6	Hey, I'm Chad Abumrod.
0:28.8	I'm Robert Krollwich.
0:30.0	Radio Lab.
0:30.6	The females haven't fared much better.
0:32.7	There's so much genetic similarity among them, the effect of population size is less than 50.
0:37.4	So despite there being 9 million of them, there's of population size is less than 50.
0:56.2	So despite there being 9 million of them, there's really only 50 cows out there. That's true of bananas, too, right? It's like all bananas belong to one banana. A little while ago, we got into the studio with Soren Wheeler, who is our, what is he, he's executive? He's managing editor. Managing editor. And we were, well, as you heard, we were in a kind of conversation about cow genetics.
1:10.9	For reasons that we'll become clear later. I thought I was going to see if I could see something about the milk production. Where was the milk? Because it's actually the real reason that we were in the studio with Soren was to talk to... Is Nate here? I am here, yeah. This guy. Nate DeMaio.
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