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- @Marion All of our full-hour shows and our podcast shorts are available on this site. I'm guessing that it was the Sleep show (Season 3) that you heard in your car. You can listen to it in its entirety here: http://www.radiolab.org/2007/may/24/. You can also click on "Episodes" from our homepage to search and hear any other hour-long Radiolab, or on "Podcasts" for all of the shorts.
Enjoy!
Tim
- @samhatchett - interesting point! A sort of "Stetson hat" argument, a la the Patient Zero show. BUT, maybe the next brilliant scientist wouldn't have solved the problem for...another six months? A year? And how many people could be fed in that interval? (Thousands, millions? I have no idea.)
Thanks,
Tim
- Dear 7.830hz from Yukon -
Which song are you wondering about?
Tim
- Hi Kai,
That choral piece is "Rosa das Rosas" by Ensemble Alcatraz.
Tim
- Hi Matt and Yaz,
That song is "Reflections," by Santo and Johnny, the same group that played the classic "Sleepwalk."
Tim
- Hi Daniel,
That song at the end of the pigeons story is “Zarambeque Criollo,” by Chatham Baroque, from an album called The Eternal Harp.
Thanks,
Tim
- Hi Sean,
Good questions - this points to something we should have made clearer in the piece. For our little non-scientific demonstration of Robert Levine's walking speed studies, we only stated the average speed for fastest and slowest, Dublin and Buchanan, Liberia; the other walking speeds are just individual samples, not city averages (and yes, I believe Oslo and Copenhagen came out about equally fast). I recommend checking out Levine's book, A Geography of Time, for his much more thorough pace of life studies' results and correlations.
Another interesting thing to consider is that according to West and Bettencourt (the physicists), each country has a different baseline for its variables (e.g. crime, economy, patents) because of cultural differences...but once you account for that, the exact same scaling laws do hold as you move up in size within that country.
- Hi Jonrush58 - That version of "Stay Awake" is by Suzanne Vega.
Tim
- Hi Sadie and Bebe,
That lovely piano music - hopefully the one you're talking about - is "Song of the Abayi" by Tsegué-Maryam Guébrou, featured on the Ethiopiques vol. 21.
- Hi folks,
Several people had asked for a transcript of the Words show. It's now available - just click the "Transcript" icon in the orange bar near the top of the page. Sorry about the delay, and enjoy!
Tim
