Things

Radiolab

WNYC Studios

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

4.6 • 44.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2019

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

From a piece of the Wright brother's plane to a child’s sugar egg, today: Things! Important things, little things, personal things, things you can hold and things that can take hold of you. This hour, we investigate the objects around us, their power to move us, and whether it's better to look back or move on, hold on tight or just let go.

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0:00.0	Wait, you're listening.
0:01.1	Okay.
0:02.4	All right.
0:03.6	Okay.
0:05.0	All right.
0:06.5	You're listening to Radio Lab.
0:09.4	Radio Lab.
0:10.0	From W. N. Y.
0:11.9	C.
0:12.8	See?
0:13.1	Yeah.
0:14.6	And NPR.
0:17.0	Hey, I'm Chad Abumrad.
0:18.5	I'm Robert Krollwich.
0:19.5	This is Radio Lab.
0:20.2	And today, we're going to begin in a place.
0:24.2	Robert, coming here.
0:25.8	Oh, oh my God.
0:28.2	A place full of wonderful things.
0:30.8	This is the actual sled that Henson and Perry used to first go to the North Pole.
0:36.0	These are Napoleon's books and his conquest to Egypt.
0:39.2	Look at the antlers over there. So wait, where are you exactly? Before I tell you that, let me just
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