Radiolab
January 4, 2012
I first heard about Radiolab at a conference in November. Pat Walters, one of the guys working there had a talk about innovative ways of telling stories. I immediately wrote down the link where I could find stories told on radio but it took me a month to go back to my notes and actually check out what it was that they were doing. Well, it took a while until the right moment came, but there it was on a website, my Christmas miracle: loads of podcasts on which I could listen to stories like I never heard before. I’d stuff the headsets on my head, push play and I’d find myself captivated by voices, ambient sounds, special effects, mystery and science.
The Radio Lab people do what I’d like to do: make science accessible to people (especially kids) by taking it out of its’ shell of pretentious and boring language and communicate it in a way that is both funny and full of meaning.
From their list of podcasts, I chose one for you. What you’re going to listen is the flow of an idea about life and its evolution from cellular communism to species liberalism and to, well, different scenarios about the life forms about to be created.
