Archive for July, 2009

After Life

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

This post is a reprint of a post by Jad Abumrad & Robert Krulwich that originally appeared at WNYC's Radiolab.

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In this hour of Radiolab, we take several different looks at that moment when we slip from life … to the other side. Is it even a moment? If it is a moment, when is that moment? And what happens afterward? It’s a show of questions that don’t have easy answers. So, in a slight departure from our regular format, we bring you eleven meditations on how, when, and even if we die.
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After Life

Monday, July 27th, 2009

This post is a reprint of a post by Jad Abumrad & Robert Krulwich that originally appeared at WNYC's Radiolab.

Death is inevitable. But is it truly final? This hour: Radiolab stares down the very moment of passing, and speculates about what may lay beyond. 

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Shorts: In Defense of Darwin?

Tuesday, July 14th, 2009

This post is a reprint of a post by Jad Abumrad & Robert Krulwich that originally appeared at WNYC's Radiolab.

Robert challenges Richard Dawkins on a number of sticky spots on the subject of biological evolution.

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Shorts: In Defense of Darwin?

Tuesday, July 14th, 2009

This post is a reprint of a post by Jad Abumrad & Robert Krulwich that originally appeared at WNYC's Radiolab.

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When evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins’ daughter was six years old, he told her that flowers are not here for beauty, not here for the bees, but instead merely to copy their own DNA. Sigh, what a Dad. So is Richard Dawkins always so gloomy and reductionist about the world? Well yes, but he would say that his vision of the world is anything but gloomy, he even calls it romantic. In this conversation from the 92nd St Y, Robert challenges Dawkins on this and a number of other sticky spots on the topic of biological evolution.

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