The Moth Radio Hour: Sailing on an Alien Sea

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Arts, Performing Arts

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🗓️ 17 May 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

In this hour we explore stories relating to STEM (Science/Technology/Engineering and MATH): we travel from the laboratories of the Antarctic to the icy seas of Saturn’s moon Titan - we learn that predisposition does not mean predestined and sometimes A is larger than C. This episode is hosted by Jay Allison of Atlantic Public Media, the producer of this show.

Hosted by: Jay Allison

Storytellers:

James McClintock a scientist researching at McMurdo Station, Antartica makes an interesting discovery.

Lone Frank deep dives into personal genomics

Dhaya Lakshminarayanan gets entangled in the language of math.

Ellen Stofan sets her sights on exploring an alien sea.

Transcript

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0:00.0	From BRX, this is the Moth Radio Hour.
0:15.8	I'm Jay Ellison, producer of this radio show, and this time we are bringing you a special
0:20.2	collection of STEM stories.
0:22.7	That is stories all about science and technology, engineering and math.
0:27.2	But if you're a humanist, don't despair, there won't be a quiz, and these are stories,
0:32.3	after all, they're about people.
0:35.7	Our first story comes from biologist James McClintock, who began his college education
0:41.4	as an English major, by the way.
0:43.6	He studies the ways organisms use chemistry to survive.
0:48.2	He told this story at the 2016 World Science Festival in New York City.
0:52.8	The theme of the night was making waves.
0:56.4	Others James McClintock live at the mall.
1:03.7	Well I faced two major challenges on my first trip to Antarctica when I was a young scientist.
1:10.6	I was off to my merrostation located 2,000 miles south of New Zealand.
1:16.2	The first challenge was, as a chemical ecologist who studies how chemicals structure the
1:22.0	sea floor, how organisms use chemistry to defend one another, defend themselves from getting
1:28.0	eaten or communicate.
1:30.4	I knew that I was among the giants of Antarctic marine biology at the station.
1:36.8	There were people like Paul Dayton who had described the sea floor and how it was structured.
1:42.2	There was art degrees who had discovered the antifreeze that allowed 250 species of Antarctic
1:49.4	fish to evolve and survive in this sub-freezing water.
1:54.2	I was among giants.
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