Life In A Barrel | Radiolab Podcast
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- Опубликовано: 25 июл 2024
- From the Radiolab podcast: Is there an underlying order to life? Or is it all an unpredictable swirl? Three stories bring us closer to the answer.
This week, we flip the Disney story of life on its head thanks to a barrel of seawater, a 1970s era computer, and underwater geysers. It’s not the circle of life, but the chaos of life.
Co-hosts Latif Nasser, Lulu Miller and our Senior Producer Matt Kielty were all sitting on their own little stories until they got thrown into the studio, and had their cherished beliefs about the shape of life put on a collision course. From an accidental study of sea creatures, to the ambitions of Stephen Jay Gould, to an undercooked theory that captured the world’s imagination, we undo the seeming order of the living world and try to make some music out of the wreckage. (Bonus: Learn how Francis Crick really thought life got started on this planet).
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Episode Segments:
0:00 Intro
1:13 Life In A Barrel
17:20 It’s The Chaos Of Life
36:37 Primordial Soup
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This episode was reported by Latif Nasser, Matt Kielty, Heather Radke, Lulu Miller and Candice Wang. It was produced by Matt Kielty and Simon Adler. Sound and music from Matt Kielty, Simon Adler and Jeremy Bloom, and dialogue mix by Arianne Wack.
Guests include: Ecology professors Hendrick Schubert and Reinhard Heerkloss; theoretical ecologist Elisa Bennica; philosopher of science Chris Haufe; science writer Stephen Jay Gould (via archival clips); and evolutionary biochemistry professor Nick Lane.
Special thanks to Alan and Alida Goffinski for giving our chaos musical life in the song at the end of the episode.
Illustration by Kevin Whipple [www.kevinwhipple.com]
Video by Kim Nowacki and Andrea Latimer. 
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I came back for the song at the end.
Darn I love how Radiolab makes me think about stuff.
I was looking for a fun science podcast and the algorithm took me here. I’m loving these episodes. Keep them going
Vine buscando cobre y encontré oro, que buen podcast
My insomniac ass really appreciates that y’all are on RUclips
On the recent PIMA podcast, Dan Gilbert talks about the End-Of-History illusion, where people feel that they've changed much in the past, but that their current version of themselves (ideas, preferences, opinions) is final and unlikely to change.
While it's true that people change less as they get older, it's often much more than people think. So perhaps this is true for life in general.. there is nothing special about the current composition of species on Earth at this moment. Life will continue, with or without preservation, with or without humans.
With the computer simulation you could easily relabel the "die" criteria as "fit/not fit", effectively modelling environmental change in the simulation- over time the species becomes more or less fit based on random environmental changes. This is a case for natural selection, not against it.
Correct me if I'm wrong but the species that all "died out" didn't just go extinct but instead adapted slightly over time until they were considered a new species. Home erectus is an extinct species but its children are the homo sapiens and are thriving just fine!
Hope to help the algorithm with this comment so that more people discover you and join you on this amazing journey you've been on for many years
The movie the lion king confirmed that chaos.is the norm
So I have lots of thoughts about this story. The first is that they didn't talk about time in relation to evolution. Evolution is occurring quickly in that blue barrel because the organisms in it have a very short lifespan, so generations occur at a rapid rate from a human perspective. If you look at 100 years of evolution, it's going to look much different than 500 million years. 500 million years ago there were no mammals. Now we rule the earth. But if you look at human evolution in the last 100 years you'll barely notice a difference beyond being slightly bigger and longer lived. It's a HUGE hole in this conversation that they don't consider time. Second of all it's not either/or chaos or order. It's both. That same teeter totter between order and chaos is occurring everywhere in the universe but in many instances, it's happening so slowly (from our perspective) that we can barely measure it. Example: pandas are a nitch creature. They only eat one thing in one place in the world and they only have 1 cub every 10 years and are solitary animals. If anything happens, the smallest tweek can cause them to crash and go extinct. Then you have water bears that can live in the emptiness of space, or hot geysers, in the desert or the ocean or the artic. That is survival of the fittest. The strongest in a same species group will produce the most and healthiest offspring. That is order, that is survival of the fittest...even if a meteor wipes them out down the line.
Can we say that this system is really unaffected by Humans? this is not a natural system - this system exists in a barrell made of man made plastic, it is continuously being disturbed by the sample takers, it is feeling pressure and temperature changes caused by the human AC system, it is feeling vibrations from the students and faculty walking by . . So is this truly a natural system unaffected by humans?
This is the worst edited podcast I've ever heard.