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Radiolab

WNYC Studios

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

4.6 • 43.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, first aired in 2012, we have two stories of brains pushed off-course. We relive a surreal day in the life of a young researcher hijacked by her own brain, and hear from a librarian experiencing a bizarre and mysterious set of symptoms that she called “gravitational anarchy.” Special thanks to Sarah Montague and Ellen Horn, as well as actress Hope Davis, who read Rosemary Morton’s story. And the late Berton RouechĂ©, who wrote that story down. EPISODE CREDITS: Produced by - Brenna FarrellOriginal music and sound design contributed by - Tim Howard and Douglas Smith EPISODE CITATIONS: Books - Berton Roueché’s story about Rosemary Morton,”Essentially Normal” first appeared in the New Yorker in 1958 and was later published by Dutton in a book called "The Medical Detectives." Signup for our newsletter. It includes short essays, recommendations, and details about other ways to interact with the show. Sign up (https://radiolab.org/newsletter)! Radiolab is supported by listeners like you. Support Radiolab by becoming a member of The Lab (https://members.radiolab.org/) today. Follow our show on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook @radiolab, and share your thoughts with us by emailing [email protected]. Leadership support for Radiolab’s science programming is provided by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Science Sandbox, a Simons Foundation Initiative, and the John Templeton Foundation. Foundational support for Radiolab was provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

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0:00.0

Listener supported WNYC Studios.

0:08.3

Hey, this is Radio Lab. I'm Lulu. I'm here with my brain. You are there with yours. And usually,

0:14.9

you know, you and your brain have a kind of quiet agreement to just get along, enough to go through your day. But every now and then

0:24.4

you and your brain fall out of agreement. And then you can slip into a kind of disorienting,

0:32.5

tilt-a-whirrely place. Well, today we have two stories for you about just that. People walking around with a new

0:40.1

kind of vertigo. These stories come from the archives and we're calling today's show Vertigo Go Go. So here we go.

0:47.5

Wait, you're listening. Okay. All right.

0:56.7

You're listening to Radio Lab.

0:57.8

Radio Lab.

0:59.9

From W. N.Y. See?

1:01.1

Yeah.

1:02.2

Rewind.

1:04.3

Hey, I'm Jedda Bumrod.

1:08.0

I'm Robert Krollwich.

1:09.0

This is Radio Lab.

1:09.7

And today on the podcast, a show about brains.

1:13.8

Yes.

1:14.3

A short time ago, we got an email from a listener in San Francisco.

1:18.1

Something odd had happened to her, and she wanted to share it with us.

1:22.1

I missed.

1:22.6

I didn't hit the record button fast enough.

1:24.7

Could you just tell me your name again?

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