One I particularly love is Radiolab, the NPR mix of nerdy science and audio bombast. Earlier this summer, its gregarious hosts Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich produced an episode entirely on the Galapagos Islands. We all know the Galapagoss role as a laboratory of evolution. Right? She's a researcher at the Charles Darwin foundation. So Carl Campbell figured out a technique where we could sterilize them in the field. What happened to the forest, goats, goats? This is the villain. Were all great apes. It's like yes look at this. Yeah, she's opening a box with some of the birds, that little benson is the finches. They've got, they sterilized 39 of them. My name is Gisele. Our fact checkers are diane kelly, Emily Krieger and Adam Sibyl Hi, I'm Erica in Yonkers leadership. That's our working hypothesis which brings us to her idea. 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. Beaks adapted to whatever the they were eating one islands finches had literally like the beak would be shaped sort of long and then the next island. There's thousands of islands around the world that have goats on them. But Darwin didn't consider this possibility. s Radiolab Interviews UCSF Researchers About "Life It's introduced found in europe north africa shouldn't be here. Again, a whole bunch of herpetologists were out there and some island conservationists and they're talking about what to do pente and they can't get lonesome George to reproduce which they were hoping to do because then they could build a pin to population and put it on Penta. Mhm We'll be back in less than 200,000 years. Description Description Not know how would that happen. And he tells me, well, I'm nervous. At first I didn't know what that was happening but turns out it was an election and I was just really blown away that this Continue this procession for like 15 minutes. Their mating calls. This hour is about the Galpagos archipelago, which inspired Darwins theory of evolution and natural selection. WNYC Contact us, indicating the AAPB ID (cpb-aacip/80-80vq8sgb). That's cool. They burned down a building. Well the honeymoon's over Galapagos. I'm the restoration Ecologist at the Charles Darwin foundation. The other three of money behind them and you see their flags all over santa cruz. Week two weeks go by, you fire up the helicopter. I thought you were gonna say people, it was kind of a collaboration. According to some accounts, they even hung them from trees. Yeah, I mean powerful colors. WebRadiolab live "Apocalyptical" In the fall of 2013, Radiolab toured North America with an ambitious multimedia live show called "Apocalyptical." I mean like like sergeants. That's. They were going to do this big population studies. Are these finches disappearing very fast, Very slowly, depends on the species. Um, me and Brooke, they make announcements and at a certain point, the flight attendants, they open up all of the overhead bins and they walk up and down spraying some sort of insecticide for what for like invasive species. These bright yellow traps hanging from trees. So how big a problem is this? Unlike on the island of Isabella, which became barren, on the island of Pinta the vegetation has grown out of control due to the extinction of the tortoises (and no goats) by 1906. 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! Right? We just told you a story about how far humans are willing to go to protect something. WNYC Studios | Podcasts So carl kept mulling this problem, what would it take to basically make you know, the perfect judas goat. I was running as it turns out he speaks some english. Am I losing my touch? WebWe are dedicating a whole hour to the Galapagos archipelago, the place that inspired Darwins theory of evolution and natural selection. What's, what's going on you? Even if they could for who knows maybe a million years. James says they kept going back combing the island with highly trained toward of sniffing dogs. So you really only had two species left. Hey, this is radio lab. This is just to grab a few flies, take them back to the lab and study them so they can learn how to fight them charlotte and paid ads. Radiolab This is the real thing. Sony says each time she go into the field the song sounded like they were starting to blur together. Which 15 years ago, they would never do back in the year 2000, Sonia and some colleagues tried feeding the finches, some fly larva and if ever there were a look of disgust on a finch face, that was it. I want this to work. At first nobody had any idea what kind of creature it was. So when you think about trying to inspect the bridge and every pillar, you're talking about extensive amount of work. She says if we keep doing that, taking the babies with the most painted DNA, breeding them together slowly. That's exactly how he sees it. That's charlotte costin. WebRadiolab is a radio program broadcast on public radio stations in the United States, and a podcast available internationally, both produced by WNYC. He didn't seem to like humans and maybe that's why he survived. To take good question. Surely in four generations you could have 90% of the pinto genome restored. We celebrated our 20th anniversary. You know, it might be like the planes just covered with buffalo or maybe the Serengeti desert with Lines and elephants. WebRadiolab Galapagos Podcast RESURRECTION (18:01) 10. 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. But it's an average. So damn case in point. Scientists first began to see this in 1997 when they started to find nests full of dead baby finches. The tortoise is a tortoise is a tortoise. 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. Radio lab is supported by Teladoc. Okay, um it's sort of the first thing that really just like, where the hell am I I? Oh my God, they ate the whole back of this little finch. And song samples made some recordings, brought all this stuff into the lab analyzed the genetic samples and had this terrible realization that the large tree finches now extinct, totally gone from the island. They hear your footsteps, they raised their heads, they come out to see what's going on and then they get whacked. How did these little fly babies? I'm not going to say it wandering jew basic house plant. He wasn't curious. And he says he would go on these dives. You can buy it at home depot but there it is in the Galapagos and along this path just looking to the right and the left and then she just starts counting the number of invasive species at 1234 as you can see here, it's only right next to the trail but not so much for them. There have been no tortoises there for 100 years. WebWe are dedicating a whole hour to the Galapagos archipelago, the place that inspired Darwins theory of evolution and natural selection. There is music under the breaks. So it's a lot. The small tree finch goes something like that's a small tree finch. I am a senior research scientist at Yale University and has come up with kind of a radical idea. 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. Normally with people, nothing like. I started studying Darwin's finches in particular. Galpagos - Radiolab Can I get you to introduce yourself? But in the end there's just George that then shifted the focus on now what do we do? More often, I'm Kareem Yousef and at IBM we use artificial intelligence to solve real world. They tagged, we collected genetic samples, got some D. N. A. Um and eventually you start um you know fondling their their legs and tails and hoping to get them to ejaculate and had a volunteer working with me, her name was favorite bridge oni. She says there's actually very little known about the fly. The adult fly seems to be harmless. We talk about going from weeks to hours, two minutes, two seconds at its core artificial intelligence for me has always been about decision support. They were a little bit different depending on which island the finches lived on with the beaks. TRANSCRIPTS We are working to provide transcripts for as much of our 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. They throw a few extra tortoises overboard. I like to think of it as a kind of Darwin finch. We had just finished the honeymoon that morning. Yeah. 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. That was a big problem for dire into power and then the islands come into sight. It includes short essays, recommendations, and details about special events. I think yeah, whatever bugs might have snuck out of the plane. We then went to a wolf volcano island next door and collected two females. Our newsletter comes out It's like a biological rule about who you're not going to make a baby with. They're like the size of jeez, I don't even know what their massive, they look like. By the ocean of breath twice, I remember I carried your oxygen. This year marks the 150th anniversary of the publication of his "On the origin of species", and the unspoilt islands still fascinate researchers. How far are we willing to go to stop that from happening? journey, but that's the beauty of entrepreneurship. We are dedicating a whole hour to the Galapagos archipelago, the place that inspired Darwins theory of evolution and natural selection. Clearwater, FL, 33763. Yeah. Could you whistle them for me? That was definitely not what I thought you were gonna say. It wouldn't notice that you were there. Now the Galapagos government spends millions of dollars checking all of the goods that come in and out trying to quarantine the ones that might have things that are a problem. Miller and Latif Nasser are co hosts. Web9 1 Radiolab Podcasts and Streamers 1 comment Best BewareTheSphere 6 yr. ago A lot of WNYC podcasts do transcripts-- I know On the Media does. But you know, we have the case of the mangrove finch, we have 60-80 individuals left. And the pinot tortoise went extinct. Outside of WNYC, I think This American Life does as well, and I know enthusiastic fans transcribed Serial. 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. Access powerful tools to help you find customers, drive sales and manage your day to day. And tortoises. WebRadiolab Episode Memory and Forgetting Contributing Organization WNYC (New York, New York) AAPB ID cpb-aacip/80-80vq8sgb If you have more information about this item than what is given here, or if you have concerns about this record, we want to know! And James says in a way it was a paradox because on the one hand, awesome, we have an actual living pinta island tortoise. And more importantly, can we? The finches look similar but their beaks were always a little bit different and this gets them thinking what if it isn't the way that everybody always says, what if God didn't create every single species in the beginning and leave them unchanged? Exactly. I didn't say it was silly. If they can't make babies, the population will crash and in some cases you can successfully eradicate a species. She showed me her lab. These five species, does that mean that they may go extinct in the next five years in the next 50 years? The show is nationally syndicated You know, until the originals are ready. Hmm. 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. Radiolab Almost every day during that time fraser would fly over Isabela island, two guys with two shooters either side of the helicopter, what you do is so you come across and you're flying along and you might see one goat says you follow that goat as it ran away until it joined its friends. This kind of eradication program was far beyond anything that anyone had ever done anywhere in the world Because it turns out they weren't just doing this on Isabela Island? Dylan keith is our Director of sound design. Radiolab ' s first nine seasons (February 2002April 2011) comprised five episodes each. Subsequent seasons contained between nine and ten episodes. Season 15 began airing in January 2017. In 2018 the show's seasonal and episode format became obscured when online content moved from radiolab.org to wnycstudios.org. That is the sound of a tortoise breathing. In fact one guy spoke with Harry Green. The tough question now is if we concede that we can't any longer save all the species, then does that put us in the situation of having to decide which ones will save and which ones we won't, And do we have any basis for making those kinds of decisions? They literally drove the rangers out of the National Park headquarters and took it over on Isabella. But compared to the medium tree finch is they are because the medium tree finch is were on the brink of extinction. Every population of tortoises on all the islands. 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. He was their counter protesting and he says that at one point they went after National Park buildings and they were attacking the ranger stations with molotov cocktails. But speaking of beaks that finch that Arnaud was holding his beak, did you see the, especially this side is extremely huge. Yeah. By this point, I'm getting super excited and I'm thinking about Darwin and I start reading Voyage of the Beagle, his book on this nook that I had bought for the trip. You know, there's green mangroves, black lava flows and pink flamingos. So they thought maybe he needs a pinto lady. So then they thought we've got to take matters into our own hands basically. And they're like, I don't know who the guy was, but it turns out he was the incumbent. It's like so cynical. So here's the story, Goats were originally brought to the Galapagos probably by pirates and whalers back in the 1500s. Teladoc is available through most insurance plans and if you're not covered, you can still have access, download the app or visit Teladoc dot com slash radio lab. These tortoises are only found here. Today we begin on a plane which carried our newly married producer, tim howard to the Galapagos. Oh for sure. This one, which first aired in 2014, tells the strange story of a small group of islands that keeps us wondering: will our m. It's customized for your needs, provides tools to manage your day to day needs and drive sales and helps make your idea real. WebCommission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs.
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