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Heavy Metal

Episode 5 of 8

Radiolab explores the effects when we humans rearrange the elemental stuff around us. With Latif Nasser.

Radiolab is a Peabody-award winning show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and the human experience.

Latif Nasser and the Radiolab team investigate a strange world.

A story about the sometimes obvious but sometimes sneaky effects of the way that we humans rearrange the elemental stuff around us. Reporter Avir Mitra and science journalist Lydia Denworth bring us a story about how one man鈥檚 relentless pursuit of a deep truth about the Earth led to an obsession that really changed the very air we breathe.

From WNYC. First broadcast on public radio in the USA in 2021.

55 minutes

Last on

Mon 2 Oct 2023 20:00

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  • Sun 22 May 2022 11:00
  • Sun 22 May 2022 19:00
  • Mon 2 Oct 2023 20:00