WNYC; Radiolab; New Normal?
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- WNYC
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- Radiolab
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- New Normal?
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- WNYC (New York, New York)
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- How do you tell the difference between a sea change and a ripple in the water? Is a peacenik baboon, a man in a dress, or a cuddly fox a sign of things to come? Or just a flukey outlier from the norm? Is there even really ever a norm? In this hour we examine three stories that reframe our sense of normalcy. baboons "flickr/hugo!" New Baboon John Horgan examines how Americans seem to have a completely different attitude toward war than we did thirty years ago. He takes us on a stroll through Hoboken, asking strangers one of the great unanswerable questions: "Will humans ever stop fighting wars?" Strangely, everyone seems to know the answer. Robert Sapolsky brings us farther afield - to eastern Africa, where a population of baboons defies his expectations of violent behavior. Robert is surprised to feel hopeful for a gentler future, but then primatologist Richard Wrangham, asserts that their aggressive nature is innate, unchanging, and hanging over them like a guillotine. Photo: flickr/hugo! Monkeyluv, by Robert Sapolsky Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers, by Robert Sapolsky ...and, Robert's book about life with the baboons Richard Wrangham and Dale Peterson's book on origins of human violence * Comment * Email * Save silverton oregon bug downtown "flickr/livinginmonrovia" New Stu Stu Rasmussen, of Silverton, Oregon, is an avid metalworker, woodworker, and electrician - and in 2008 became our country's first transgender mayor. News of his election swept the country, but what was it like at home? Photo: flickr/livinginmonrovia Silverton, Oregon's homepage * Comment * Email * Save silver fox "flickr/mattknoth" New Nice Brian Hare tells us the story of Dmitri Belyaev, a geneticist and clandestine Darwinian who lived in Stalinist Russia and studied the domestication of the silver fox. Through generations of selectively breeding a captive population, Belyaev noticed not only increased docility, but also unexpected physical changes. Why did these gentler foxes necessarily look different than their wild ancestors? Tecumseh Fitch has a hypothesis, something about trailblazing cells and embryonic development. And Richard Wrangham takes it a step further, suggesting us humans may have domesticated ourselves.
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WNYC-FM
Identifier: 60974.1 (WNYC Media Archive MDB)
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- Chicago: “WNYC; Radiolab; New Normal?,” WNYC, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed April 1, 2026, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-80-30prrqrn.
- MLA: “WNYC; Radiolab; New Normal?.” WNYC, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. April 1, 2026. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-80-30prrqrn>.
- APA: WNYC; Radiolab; New Normal?. Boston, MA: WNYC, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-80-30prrqrn