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Weaving stories and science, Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich investigate a strange world.

Weaving stories and science into sound and music-rich documentaries, with Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich

Radiolab: Series 7: The Cataclysm Sentence

The Cataclysm Sentence

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BBC Radio 4 Extra - Radiolab, Series 7, The Cataclysm Sentence

Radiolab explores what’s the one sentence you would want to pass on?

Radiolab explores, when in peril, what’s the one sentence you would want to pass on to the next generation? With Jad Abumrad.

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

One day in 1961, the famous physicist Richard Feynman stepped in front of a Caltech lecture hall and posed this question to a group of undergraduate students: “If, in some cataclysm, all of scientific knowledge were to be destroyed, and only one sentence was passed on to the next generation of creatures, what statement would contain the most information in the fewest words?” 

Radiolab explores, when in peril, what’s the one sentence you would want to pass on to the next generation?

Jad Abumrad and the Radiolab team investigate a strange world.

From WNYC. First broadcast on public radio in the USA in 2020.

Radiolab: Series 7

Your digital radio entertainment station showcasing the best in comedy and drama

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Weaving stories and science into sound and music-rich documentaries.

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