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For this week's podcast, Radiolab throws a birthday party for Charles Darwin!
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(laughing) - Ice, quiet. - You're listening to Radio Lab. - The podcast. - From. - Who you are, public radio. - Public radio, W-N-Y-C. - And NPR. - Hello, I'm Jada Boomeron. - And I'm Robert Critlwich and this is not the regular radio lab new. - No, this is Radio Lab, the podcast. Meaning, you like to explain? - Yes, it's Radio Lab, in between our regular season shows, so this is gonna be a little shorter probably than the regular shows and a little less produced, but a lot of fun because it's birthday time. (cheering) I'm high in a say, happy birthday, of course, to Charles Darwin. I want to chuck Darwin, sometimes like that. - Oh, more Charles Darwin birthday. - And I want, just be quiet and listen to me for just a second. I want to say that a lot of people, when they think about Charles Darwin, think about a brilliant, brilliant man, who 150 or so years ago woke up some morning and thought, wow, I have a wonderful deep insight into the nature of how life changes. - Well, it was wonderful, it was deep. It was one of the deepest ever. - Yes, but it wasn't instant, and that's the first thing we ought to say about Charles Darwin, is that he did not have an Excelsior idea. He had a notion which gradually formed into an idea which then required an enormous amount of hard, hard work. And to begin, I'd like to play you a story I did a number of years ago with David Kwahman, who was one of the best scholars about Darwin, that I know, he's actually a professional journalist, but we call him a scholar. (laughing) - We're suddenly living in a world where scholars and journalists are on par. - Well, why not, you know? Because David works very hard, but he doesn't even work as close to hard as Chuck Darwin as I like to call him. So let's listen to this story, which is Darwin working out a theory. (humming)
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For this week's podcast, Radiolab throws a birthday party for Charles Darwin!