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iNHERiTANCE
Once a kid is born, their genetic fate is pretty much sealed. Or is it? This hour, we put nature and nurture on a collision course and discover how outside forces can find a way inside us, shaping not just our hearts and minds, but the basic biological blueprint that we pass on to future generations.
THE BiTTER END
We turn to doctors to save our lives -- to heal us, repair us, and keep us healthy. But when it comes to the critical question of what to do when death is at hand, there seems to be a gap between what we want doctors to do for us, and what doctors want done for themselves.
DESPERATELY SEEKiNG SYMMETRY
This hour of Radiolab, we set out in search of order and balance in the world around us and ask how symmetry shapes our very existence -- from the origins of the universe, to what we see when we look in the mirror. Along the way, we look for love in ancient Greece, head to Princeton to peer inside our brains, and turn up an unlikely headline from the Oval Office circa 1979.
Questions of good and evil, right and wrong are commonly thought unanswerable by science. But Sam Harris argues that science can -- and should -- be an authority on moral issues, shaping human values and setting out what constitutes a good life.
When you're getting medical treatment, or taking part in medical testing, privacy is important; strict laws limit what researchers can see and know about you. But what if your medical data could be used -- anonymously -- by anyone seeking to test a hypothesis? John Wilbanks wonders if the desire to protect our privacy is slowing research, and if opening up medical data could lead to a wave of health care innovation.
Scott Fraser studies how humans remember crimes -- and bear witness to them. In this powerful talk, which focuses on a deadly shooting at sunset, he suggests that even close-up eyewitnesses to a crime can create "memories" they could not have seen. Why? Because the brain abhors a vacuum.
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SHAKESPEARE'S SONNETS, ENCODED iN DNA
25 January, 2013
Reporting in Nature, researchers write of encoding a variety of files -- jpg, mp3, txt, and pdf -- into strands of DNA. Lead author Nick Goldman says DNA is extraordinarily long-lasting, compared to today's hard drives or magnetic tapes. And if all the world's information were written in DNA, he says, it would fit in the back of a station wagon.
LOOKiNG BACK ON A YEAR iN SCiENCE
4 January, 2013
In 2012 the Higgs boson was spotted at CERN, private company SpaceX began supply flights to the International Space Station, and the world bade farewell to the Galapagos tortoise Lonesome George. A panel of journalists discusses the year’s top stories in science.
ARE WE LOSiNG THE RACE AGAiNST CLiMATE CHANGE?
01 February, 2013
China burns nearly as much coal as the rest of the world combined--and has 300 more coal plants in the works. But China also leads the world in solar panel exports and wind farms, and has a national climate change policy in place. Is the U.S. falling behind on climate? Ira Flatow and guests discuss how the world is tackling global warming--with or without us--and what it might take to change the climate on Capitol Hill.
PRESERViNG SCiENCE NEWS iN AN ONLiNE WORLD
01 February, 2013
How can journalists and bloggers avoid some of the pitfalls of communicating science in an online world? Should a website’s comments section be moderated, or removed altogether? How has social media changed the blogosphere? A panel of experts joins Ira Flatow to discuss.