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Radiolab is a show about science that briliantly uses radio’s greatest strength–sound–to bring stories to life in ways we print goons can only dream about. I wrote a story about how animals sleep. The Radiolab folks played the sound of brain waves from a sleeping cat. And so on.
I’m particularly fond of their latest podcast, which you can listen to below. It’s about chimeras, synthetic biology, and other threats to our conventional notions of life.
Today on bloggingheads, I talk to Gary Marcus, NYU psychologist and author of the new book Kluge, about all the telling ways in which our minds let us down, and what those shortcomings tell us about how it evolved.
Originally published April 12, 2008. Copyright 2008 Carl Zimmer.
Sarah writes:
“My latest tattoo is a black-line representation of the Uffington White Horse in England. It’s a huge earthwork carved into the countryside about three thousand years ago. I’m not really sure what compelled me to get it, since I’m a grad student in English and not archaeology or anthropology. But it’s such a beautiful, simple design, and it represents a real feat of Bronze Age ingenuity.”
Yesterday is the birthday of the man who froze the gallop and thawed it out again.
From, of course, Wikipedia.
Originally published April 10, 2008. Copyright 2008 Carl Zimmer.
A trilobite from Lea, a graduate student in ecology.
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Originally published April 9, 2008. Copyright 2008 Carl Zimmer.