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I don't know I'm not sure many other people think about that. List of Radiolab episodes - Wikipedia No, no, no that's not. There is music under the breaks. See? These tortoises are only found here. It was a magical, magical area. And these hybrid finches, are they doing better against flies? And they're like, I don't know who the guy was, but it turns out he was the incumbent. So nature has a boys now has the boys. One male tortoise, maybe 50 years old. So not only that, but according to linda, those goats, couple islands where they've been eliminated, fishermen have put them back. Oh, I'm never a Doubter. Our budget year ends with the school year. For instance, add up as picking the lafayette of the nostrils of the baby birds and what we're starting to see is that they're beginning to consume them. It has a terrible common name in english. journey, but that's the beauty of entrepreneurship. My name is, he's an ornithologist from the University of Vienna. Penta is was a very special place. Oh my God, there are these three massive tortoises just clustered together under a tree. And James says in a way it was a paradox because on the one hand, awesome, we have an actual living pinta island tortoise. But then the national Park comes in same group that's doing the goat eradication And they tell the fishermen they're overfishing the sea cucumber. Transcript They learned that this sound means, so the goats start hiding so they're going to bushes, they won't move, They learn to stand under a tree holding their breath. This is radio lab and we are dedicating the entire hour to this little set of islands and to that question as the world is filling up with more and more and more people, Is it inevitable that even the most sacred pristine places on the planet will eventually get swallowed up? I'm soren wheeler lulu and latif are out this week. This hour we take a look at what happens when we all try to live together. Ornithologists have started to notice some new behaviors. So they thought maybe he needs a pinto lady. Do you hear me? So Carl Campbell figured out a technique where we could sterilize them in the field. Yes. Well the honeymoon's over Galapagos. Science programming is provided by the Gordon and Betty moore Foundation Science sandbox assignment Foundation initiative and the john Templeton Foundation Foundational support for Radio Lab was provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. In the mid nineties we started in 94 Gisella and some folks from the Galapagos national park, they began taking a census of all the tortoises in the Galapagos. It's keeping score. That was a big problem for dire into power and then the islands come into sight. I've got my thing over here and you got your thing over there. Our newsletter comes out Radio Lab is supported by Shopify, a platform designed for anyone to sell anywhere giving entrepreneurs the resources once reserved for big businesses. But at the time the immediate question was, are there any more because if they could find a female for George, then they could, you know, maybe de extinct the species. And this is the place of course where Darwin landed in 1835. TRANSCRIPTS We are working to provide transcripts for as much of our It was breath taken. Here we go. That's really the classical definition of a species. Radiolab - Wikipedia Now the jury is still very much out on what will happen. So now they had a dilemma. Wow, that is freaking amazing, describe them. And basically when you have only judas goats meeting up with other judas goats, then you can say the goats have been eliminated, you're done A point, they got to at least on Isabella in mid 2006. That's right. They take 39 tortoises raised in captivity and they use them as placeholders. Three tree finch species, the small, the medium and the large, and we went out and we set up our miss nets and we caught the birds and we measured them. You've got. It's kind of late, the sun is just starting to set. He's adorable. You're not sad and he's like a friend. I'm surrounded by shelves and on the shelves are these tiny little plastic cups that are filled with flies. Lava flows are like 1000 sea iguanas taking a sun bath. WebWNYC is America's most listened-to public radio station and the producer of award-winning programs and podcasts like Radiolab, On the Media, and The Brian Lehrer Show. People are right now throwing beers at each other around what is the right strategy josh says that there are basically two camps right now on the one side, you've got this classic like what you might call Eden approach conservation Biology. And so in 1994 we had what we called the tortoise summit in England and that was where we started the discussions about what are we going to do, experts came from all over the world linda says we want to get rid of the goats and many of them thought we were nuts and that it was impossible. WebThe Galapagos Islands are famous for inspiring Charles Darwin to form his Theory of Evolution based on the biodiversity he'd observed there. Radiolab - Transcripts - Steno But in the end there's just George that then shifted the focus on now what do we do? Who kind of scrambled everything up for me? If the party in power now the front runners, if they get elected, then I see a dark and uncertain future, more big hotels, more of these enormous boats, more people. And then you wait instinctively that loan go will go and find other goats. This is to control the population. This is Augustine Lopez's longtime fisherman. And then, um, I actually didn't get back there for maybe 15 years from when I was there the first time and when I returned That forest was 100% gone. I actually visited one of the main researchers in Congo. You had the small tree finches and the medium tree finch is. They introduced goats to Galapagos, but on islands like Isabella, which is this massive island size of Rhode island, The goats were actually penned into just little part of it Because there was this black lava rock that ran across the island, extremely rough lava that's extremely difficult to walk across 12 miles of it. We don't think it was natural Gisella thinks it might have been the whalers. It's customized for your needs, provides tools to manage your day to day needs and drive sales and helps make your idea real. Galapagos The show is known for its deep-dive journalism and innovative sound design. It's a race against time. Very special. She's a researcher at the Charles Darwin foundation. You mean eat the fly larva? you're radically remaking the world. WebPodcast Transcripts of Radiolab Radiolab Society & Culture Science Latest Transcripts What Up Holmes? Yes, this fellow, he's a well known tortoise researcher. Um, so it's like you have you have a couple of shrew like creatures walking around. WebGalpagos - Podcast As our co-Hosts Lulu Miller and Latif Nasser are out this week, we are re-sharing the perfect episode to start the summer season! Yeah, I carried your oxygen and you walked beside me through the lobby commenting on the decor. But even worse so far. A little black fly looks like every other fly. I'm robert Krulwich. But Darwin didn't consider this possibility. Do you remember the song types? You actually end up meeting a lot of people employed that way in Galapagos and he tells me politically speaking, he's an outsider and of course I'm wondering why he's standing there by himself waving a flag at this entire parade of people who don't support him at all. And you could argue we're gonna have to get a whole lot better at making some very, very difficult decisions. But then one evening in March of 1972. So where your values lie. Radiolab WebRadiolab - Transcripts Subscribe 45 episodes Share Radiolab is on a curiosity bender. Yeah, exactly. Even if they could for who knows maybe a million years. AMS159 Galapagos listening guide.doc - Nature and World But that shouldn't really happen. Yeah, it's P. H. I L. I can't spell out loud Phil or L. O. R. N. I. S. D. O. W. N. S. I. Filan is actually means bird loving. Plus with 24/7 support, you're never alone. That's our working hypothesis which brings us to her idea. So there are no people there. Oh yeah. Radiolab is supported by listeners like you. And so the best way you can help us is to become an annual member of the lab and you can do that right now, go to radio lab dot org slash join and if you join as an annual member before june 30th at midnight, you will get two months free using the code summer. This is radio lab. So his name is, he is a naturalist guide. I just came in second. Were all great apes. But whatever the scene is that just doesn't have any people but is carrying that idea, those pictures in your head even like useful anymore. Green and white leaves. It wouldn't notice that you were there. A given episode There is where evolution is very strong. We use this technique called judas, goats. Follow our show on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook @radiolab, and share your thoughts with us by emailing [email protected]. WNYC's Radiolab series tackles just five topics each season. They would crush you to death. And this allowed for those important drip pools. Dylan keith is our Director of sound design. Well, there's there's a couple of clues that say maybe, Yeah, for example, when you look in the nests, they seem to have fewer parasites and they seem to have more babies that survive 15%. Hosted by Latif Nasser and We were really starting to get kind of desperate about options. We celebrated our 20th anniversary. That's very similar to what I was picturing, But we land, we take the 40 minute bus drive, which turns out to be kind of a big town, tons of people live there like a fishing village, tons, no, it's way bigger than a fishing village and just let me say that my first hours in Galapagos were totally different than I was expecting. It's like a biological rule about who you're not going to make a baby with. Radio lab is supported by the john Templeton Foundation Funding research and catalyzing conversations that inspire people with awe and wonder learn about the latest discoveries in the science of well being, complexity, forgiveness and free will at Templeton dot org, As our co-Hosts Lulu Miller and Latif Nasser are out this week, we are re-sharing the perfect episode to start the summer season! 179 years later, the Galapagos are undergoing rapid changes that continue to pose -- and possibly answer -- critical questions about the fragility and resilience of life on Earth. I am a senior research scientist at Yale University and has come up with kind of a radical idea. And so we want to ask for your help now, as we enter this new stage, this new year for us. But to give an example of the nature of this business that's josh Donlan, he runs an NGO that was involved in project Isabella. any way to find transcripts of the podcasts I hope not. You know, like nature in its purest form. But that's the only possible the first day. The new york public school system has been called the most racially segregated in the country. Seriously? School of Diagnostic Medical Sonography - Grady Health But the interesting thing was from year to year it got more difficult. As of September 2020, Radiolab is hosted by Latif Nasser and Lulu Miller. The show focuses on topics of a scientific, philosophical, and political nature. The show attempts to approach broad, difficult topics such as "time" and "morality" in an accessible and light-hearted manner and with a distinctive audio production style. Test the outer edges of what you think you know, Radiolab is supported by listeners like you. But eventually nature is going to take over and they will evolve into into tortoises. Just walk past the newspaper that says 72 hours left in the electoral campaign. So I'm just going to step in to play an episode that well, if I'm honest, it's just one that I felt like hearing and running again at this moment. It's like having a program on you over and over and over again, it gets worse. Addeddate. The interview originally from a podcast called The Relentless Picnic, but presented by one of Lulus current podcast faves, The 11th is part of an episode of mini pep talks designed to help us all get through this cold, dark, second-pandemic-winter-in-a-row. See do you just spell fulanis down? But that's four generations of tortoises, not rats. I worked for island conservation and I'm based here in the Galapagos islands carl's actually the guy who showed me those tortoises, it was just a, it was a barren landscape, barren, barren grounds. Yeah. But what if simply putting your foot on the ground can completely transform a place hola back to producer tim Howard. Surely in four generations you could have 90% of the pinto genome restored. You could see the marks where it was just chopped up. Image credits: Rene via Adobe Stock. They eliminate over 250,000 goats. Thanks to Trish Dolman and screen siren pictures, Alex gala font Mathias espinosa. Yeah. They can live for over 100 and 50 years. I guess. Doesn't matter point is an introduced species. Report for Radio Lab. I call it the phoenix blodgett. Galpagos - Podcast I think it might have been the worst, We went up into treetops. TRT: 59:00 *Breaks: Two 1:00 minute breaks. So we we go outside. So in 2009 they come up with a stopgap. Galapagos | RadioLab The wrench of the white man. Radiolab: Galpagos on Apple Podcasts And we all agreed because the calls are really distinct, easy to tell apart. Steffi Basnet - 84 Galapagos Podcast Pt 2 - 7426314 Support Radiolab by becoming a member of. In the meantime the vegetation on Pinta is growing out of control from an ecological point of view pinter can't wait. Radiolab is supported in part by the Alfred P. Fund Foundation, enhancing public understanding of science and technology in the modern world. Yeah. 23 Weeks 6 Days So they went island by island, took a little bit of blood from all these different tortoises. If they can't make babies, the population will crash and in some cases you can successfully eradicate a species. We just told you a story about how far humans are willing to go to protect something. Radiolab Why? Normally with people, nothing like. And more importantly, can we? We're still trying to figure that out. So while we were in the highlands of santa, Cruz hunky took me through the woods to meet this guy named Arno. They blockaded roads. And that's also why when we think of evolution, we think of the Galapagos and in particular we think of two iconic creatures, the tortoise and the finch. Radio lab is supported by Teladoc. The show is nationally syndicated And this brings us to our second school of thought, which in its most extreme version goes something like this. You know, on average 50% of your genome comes from your mom and 50% from your dad. So they did it. Yeah. And this guy, he doesn't even say anything. They would need like millions of traps every few feet to do that. R. i. So-Called) Life What's, what's going on you? To take good question. She first came to study tortoises back then. Can I get you to introduce yourself? These are such alien looking creatures. You know, they basically feed on the blood of the baby birds. We said goodbye to Jad abu Murad. This is the villain. 24 June 2012. Just because so today a little step back in time to one of my favorite radio producers, tim Howard telling us the story of a truly singular spot on the face of our earth. Right? Which should never actually happened because these are totally separate species. Their mating calls. But it's an average. And you do that every two weeks for a year. She showed me her lab. If they're going to release sterilized male flies into the wild, they have to be able to raise millions of these flies in the lab and they're trying like crazy showing me all of the larvae that hatch today and four baby flies that had just hatched and these little cups. Now of course there are no female tortoises on pinta but they thought you know, maybe a zoo somewhere private collection has one because you really never know. Thank you. They basically got their home back. Galapagos Today, the strange story of a small group of islands that raise a big question: is it inevitable that even our most sacred natural landscapes will eventually get swallowed up by humans? Web72 votes, 254 comments. So linda when she first went to Galapagos to study these tortoises about 30 years ago I did a trip where we backpacked around the caldera. Going back. The other three of money behind them and you see their flags all over santa cruz. Here's Kareem Yousef, the general manager of AI Applications at IBM, I'm standing on top of a suspension bridge, I've got a vast view in front of me. When you needed to stop for breath, your hand ran light and steady. As our co-Hosts Lulu Miller and Latif Nasser are out this week, we are re-sharing the perfect episode to start the summer season! The small tree finch goes something like that's a small tree finch. It would look almost the same but much shorter. But as they become rare and rare, they're harder and harder to detect. In fact says that it's actually in the same family as the regular house fly, but it's actually a boat fly called the Lorna's down. Listen 18 min The Political Scene | The New Yorker Corpse Demon But then at a certain point I noticed this one guy by himself standing on the sidewalk wearing a white shirt and jeans, he's waving a flag, but his flag is a different color. They kept them around. Okay, so here's a wood plaque That says Lonesome George is the last survivor of the dynasty of land tortoises from Pinta Island and in fact in 2012, after decades of trying to get him to breed lonesome George Dies. How did these little fly babies? It's this on ending struggle. There have been no tortoises there for 100 years. He just kind of points. You should actually get better with experience. They tagged, we collected genetic samples, got some D. N. A. Transcript of Fungus Amungus from | Happy Scribe I spent what two grand friend is The beginning is the beginning of a new a new future for the island. Teladoc makes it easy to see a doctor right from your phone with 24 7 access to board certified doctors and were authorized, Teladoc doctors can call in a prescription to fill at your local pharmacy. They sterilize them and put them on pinter. I can see the sea cargo ships going by and we have drones flying that are taking thousands of pictures of every angle of that bridge that no human could actually quickly process without artificial intelligence. No. Nearly 200 years later, the Galpagos are undergoing rapid changes that continue to pose and perhaps answer critical questions about the fragility and resilience of life on Earth. This one, which first aired As our co-Hosts Lulu Miller and Latif Nasser are out this week, we are re-sharing the perfect episode to start the summer season! And so you end up flying around in an expensive helicopter, not fighting any goes Now the way we deal with that is an interesting one. Which means at least 100 years. The natural skied from the first chapter Who wrote this song, Peak Open Zone. 179 years later, the Galapagos are He says that when he first got to the Galapagos in the eighties, he couldn't believe that the place was real. Scientists first began to see this in 1997 when they started to find nests full of dead baby finches. All right on top of the cave, drop out one of the two shooters that was in the helicopter and he'd physically go into the cave shoe, the goats out or shoot them on sight. The ideal judas goat, if you will is a goat that would search for and be searched for and that would never get pregnant. Hey listeners, this is molly Webster. 2.2K views about 2 years ago 48:23 Love it or hate it, the freedom to And just how far are we willing to go to stop that from happening? Not know how would that happen. You see that they're only there for this border of about 5 to 10 inches along the edge of that path because he said what happens is that tourists, they'll be back in their home country, they'll be walking around in the garden or a park and it'll be filled with tiny seeds, the seeds stick to shoes and socks and trousers. I'm actually walking down Charles Darwin Avenue just kinda getting the lay of the land when all of a sudden this line of cars comes around the corner honking, endless honking and waving flags, blue flags. There's no place, no matter how remote we get, you can go to the North Pole, it's been affected by human activity. We ask deep questions and use investigative journalism to get the answers. He wasn't curious. But then my power supply didn't work and my nook died. James says they kept going back combing the island with highly trained toward of sniffing dogs. They don't know the exact date. WebCommission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs. Oh for sure. Okay, so quick context, Galapagos Islands, cluster of islands way off the coast of Ecuador in the Pacific 19 bigger islands, bunch of smaller ones. They got all the goats, not all the goats mean those judas, goats. Or maybe it's 10,000 hammerhead sharks. I mean we're probably talking just a few goats, but by the 1990s those few goats, the population had exploded to about 100,000 goats. And how far are we willing to go to return a place to what it was before we got there. She says, you have islands with massive volcanoes and forests, tree ferns that grow, you know, well above a human sight. But here's the problem. For transcripts, see individual segment pages. But there's a much bigger question here that that goes way beyond globally, which is basically like what is the right way to protect nature now? What you do is you sit at the back of the tortoise and first you have to get to where they'll allow you to touch them. I'm gon kill the person. Well, I talked to one scientist sonia klein door for I'm professor in animal behavior at flinders University, south Australia. There's a little hole into the brain of this little finch. It rolls over this forest and it catches in the branches of the trees. Well they needed the goats because well yeah, there was a problem of people Because during the 90's these demonstrations started to happen, demonstrations of outrage, violent activity, constant conflict to explain. iTunes Overcast App Radiolab Page RADIOLAB Baby Blue Blood Drive Did you know that horseshoe crabs have blue blood? They wear those trousers on the plane and then they wear them when they come here and then people walk and then just distribute or disperse the seeds along the trail.