Just a moment …

There’s nothing meaningful or topical in this video, just a cool take on the moments in our life.  From RadioLab:

RadioLab

I’m curious.  I’ve always been curious.  But, it’s not just curiosity.  There’s a restlessness too.  There’s a need to be learning, doing, trying, adding new things to my life.  I always have talk radio or NPR on.  If not, then I have music playing.  If not, I’m asleep.  According to Myers Briggs, I’m an ENTP personality which explains a lot of it.  I’ve written before about how much I love to zone out during out my long rides/runs to podcasts of This American Life or The Story on NPR.  I prefer these to music on long distances b/c I can get lost in the stories and interviews and lives and I get distracted from the time or discomfort.  I also dig them b/c they scratch that endless curiosity itch.

I just found a new one that I’ve been listening to for about a week … It’s ALL TIME.  It’s called RadioLab out of NYC public radio.  It’s like The Story but has more of a scientific bent to it.  The hosts are very funny and they make topics like Sleep, Placebo Effect, Morality, etc fascinating and totally entertaining.

Some recent ideas/questions/topics they presented:

• How and why most animals sleep with one eye open (sleep 1/2 their brain at a time)
• Why Placebo’s work.  Where they came from.
• Science’s wrestle with identifying a ‘soul.’
• The scientist who measured people’s weight AS THEY DIED and recorded an immediate loss of weight at moment of death.  His conclusion?  One’s spirit has a weighty matter.

Check them out …

My 'new' thing :)