Worth

Radiolab

WNYC Studios

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

4.6 • 44.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2014

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

This episode, we make three earnest, possibly foolhardy, attempts to put a price on the priceless. We figure out the dollar value for an accidental death, another day of life, and the work of bats and bees as we try to keep our careful calculations from falling apart in the face of the realities of life, and love, and loss.

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0:00.0	wait you're listening okay all right okay okay all right you're listening to radio lab
0:10.7	radio from w n ys see and npr are you ready yes feeling feeling full worth? I'm feeling full of value. Well, in that spirit, I'm Jed Aboumrod. I'm Robert Quilwitch. This is Radio Lab and today. Three very different stories that try to put a dollar value. Milgin is okay. One million dollar. $7,000. Yeah, I would say $5,000. When things that seem...
0:38.7	Priceless.
0:39.4	Priceless.
0:39.8	Priceless.
0:40.2	Is it really?
0:45.2	Okay, so start at the top.
0:46.7	Bring on the pressure.
0:47.9	So tell...
0:48.5	All right, we're going to start the show with a story from our producer, Molly Webster.
0:52.8	I don't remember any of it.
0:53.9	Who we might actually want to rename Molly Wongster
0:56.1	because she recently got herself to some serious numericizing.
1:00.9	Actually, it didn't start as a wonky thing.
1:02.9	It started actually with some medical journals.
1:04.3	Yeah, that was...
1:05.0	So that was interesting because it was some of the most poetic writing I've seen out of doctors ever.
1:14.8	One journal article said, like, what would one more month mean to a 37-year-old mother who has
1:20.9	four children? Or what would one more month mean if you are a 67-year-old who's about to go
1:26.6	traveling around the world, people were
1:28.9	just kind of like drifting these questions out there.
1:32.4	All these questions seem to circle around a seemingly simple story of the pricing of a drug,
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