radiolab inheritance transcript

Everybody we talked to seems to think there's something really interesting going on here. "I want to thank you for your support and kindness as always." JAD: And at first, it didn't go so well because, you know, if you're a land toad and you're trying to have sex in the water, it's kind of hard. And in1923, he actually comes to England. PAT: Yeah. Or is it? Radiolab is a radio program broadcast on public radio stations in the United States, and a podcast available internationally, both produced by WNYC.Hosted by Latif Nasser and Lulu Miller, each episode focuses on a topic of a scientific and philosophical nature, through stories, interviews, and thought experiments.. Radiolab's broadcast edition airs as an hour-long program each week while the . It was something they acquired during their lifetime. Also, thanks to Carl Zimmer whose latest is. Even if it helps, it's horrifying. And what about the four kids that weren't raised with Barbara? [chuckles]. JAD: Serotonin gets into the brain cells, and according to Michael unleashes MICHAEL MEANEY: A whole series of molecular events inside the cell. ROBERT: Rewrite their their blueprint? PAT: That's really impressive. FRANCES CHAMPAGNE: You have to look at one cage, say, are they licking? JAD: Do you have any theories for how this tongue is tickling the DNA, or whatever it's doing? So moms licking activates serotonin, and it's released onto brain cells in the hippocampus. Once a kid is born, their genetic fate is pretty much sealed. She carries your kids for nine months and you're like, "That poor male toad.". But luckily for the Vivarium and for our story, they had a guy. They have six, seven, eight, ten, fourteen.]. At the Vivarium, as the name suggests, they have live animals. Birth mother's name was actually the same as me, so, Barbara. JAD: And looking at these swings in fortune, Olov realized what he had here was JAD: Because with all this data, he and his team could follow families forward in time, through the generations. I'm graduating in December. You know? I mean, for one thing, Barbara's white and Destiny's black. If you were a boy in verkalix between the ages of 9 and 12 years old, that's the window, 9 to 12, you're a boy, and then we have one of those terribly rough winters, and you're eating much less than normal. Push yourself and you got it.". I said, "This will be the last one. MICHAEL MEANEY: So the great rat nightmare comes true where the females become their mothers. It's a very different kind of front line, where urgent work means moving slow, and time is marked out in tiny pre-planned steps. And, I mean, I have straight A's and I'm making it work. [ARCHIVAL Clip, News: Who, together, pledged more than $150,000 to her program.]. Telling some genes to turn off now, other genes to turn on. PAT: Barbara tried to get a law passed requiring just that. As he's doing his rounds, he stops by the midwife toad terrarium, he looks down at that little male toad with grapes stuck to his legs and he wonders, "How adaptable is that little guy?" My situation turned out positive. I wouldn't want to put it up to chance, because what kind of life is that? His famous example was giraffes. Can you say oh my goodness? That was amazing. ROBERT: And they didn't have these on land? JAD: Plus, you know, Lamarck didn't get all the biological details right. Lynn has become one of Barbara's fiercest critics. They have found very similar effects for smoking, for instance. PAT: I ended up finding myself really conflicted about it. PAT: But along with the support came attacks, particularly as drug-addicted women began to sign up. CARL ZIMMER: Around 1908, he started publishing all of these results. Yeah, like you can help them overcome you. It's just a mind crushing tedium. So then the one that's in trouble, so thats one of, So I guess you could say to yourself, "Seven out of eight of these kids did all right?". And as soon as she got there to pick him up, she could tell that something was wrong. But according to Kammerer, here's what happened when he heated up the toads little cage. When rats have more of this protein, they will act more motherly. So she told me Barbara had another baby and Did we want it? FRANCES CHAMPAGNE: This is real physical-chemical interaction between what's going on in the environment and what's going on with the DNA. ], What's the worst thing you have been called by one of your critics?]. They have found very similar effects for smoking, for instance. These are women who love their children, who sought help. Or very many of them right at all, but, you know, his basic idea seems to be true. JAD: Michael and Frances looked inside the brains of these rats and what they saw was that the rats who had been licked a lot as babies, they had more stuff in their head. OLOV BYGREN: They didn't have grains. Lamarck said, You wanna know how a giraffe got its long neck?, One day this giraffe, mother giraffe, lets say, was looking up in the tree and saw some fruit, and had to stretch he neck, and stretch again. There was a newspaper called The Daily Express and they have these headlines that come out. [ARCHIVAL CLIP, toddler: Theres the moon.]. JAD: I mean, it's pretty common but like, here's a for instance, my dad from my entire life had this thing where if someone was whistling, he would like they could be whistling six tables over in a restaurant and he would turn around and be like, "Stop that," it was like it was scraping his very nerves. Radiolab is a radio program broadcast on public radio stations in the United States, and a podcast available internationally, both produced by WNYC.Hosted by Jad Abumrad, Latif Nasser and Lulu Miller, each episode focuses on a topic of a scientific and philosophical nature, through stories, interviews, and thought experiments.. PAT: Yeah. So they can grab onto the female and hold tight while they're mating. [ARCHIVAL CLIP, BARBARA HARRIS: I feel that they should all be sterilized. ROBERT: Meaning that they had less incidence of heart disease? JAD: People can't just will themselves into a more perfect form. ], [ARCHIVAL Clip, Daytime Talkshow: I'd like everybody to meet, please, Barbara Harris. I mean that's a different kind of odds, but its DESTINY HARRIS: Hi, this is Destiny Harris. All right, I'll get in the water." LYNN PALTROW: I think I was really horrified and terrified. BARBARA HARRIS: And I was a waitress, I worked for IHOP for over 30 years. Maybe more. Or is it? PEJK MALINOVSKI: Okay, I'm here. Kinda makes me claustrophobic. LYNN PALTROW: The women who I've worked with, who've had a history of drug problems, aren't like the examples that she gives. Maybe they'd try and jump back out, but it was still hot so they'd have to jump back in. And I didn't find a single case of someone saying that they regretted what they've done. PAT: The way she saw it, the state, the federal government, somebody BARBARA HARRIS: Should say, "You're not doing this. PAT: Lynn has become one of Barbara's fiercest critics. That's really impressive. They both say that they actually often forget that they're not biologically related. Well, this is it! JAD: But according to Kammerer, here's what happened when he heated up the toads little cage. Then World War One came and that disrupted everything. Because it would reflect badly on the Soviet state. Isaiah would sleep and he would scream. You dont really say it to yourself that way, but yeah. I agree with Lynn, that this program does perpetuate a stereotype. I'm the founder and director of Project Prevention. I'm going to graduate with honors and one day I'm going to be able to tell her, "Look, I did this. I didn't see them as people. Full disclosure, she's Robert's sister's partner. Here, Kammerer's was saying, "You can do this even on a physical level.". PAT: If Barbara had gotten to Destiny's birth mom, Destiny, Kalia, this moment, none of it would exist. At once and we're watching 40 litters at a time. And she's a complete nut. Move on to the next cage, yes, no? Remind me this. SAM KEAN: It seemed to have been passed down for multiple generations. JAD: I tell you what I'm going to do though. We travel to Ukraine to follow a shipment of abortion pills, and discover a complicated conversation about pregnancy and choice in wartime. This assignment is from the free science education website Science Prof Online(ScienceProfOnline.com). There were four girls and Barbara and Destiny told me that a few years ago they found three of them and they all either were in college or had finished college. And thats wrong [laughs].Thats not how it works. Serotonin gets into the brain cells, and according to Michael unleashes A whole series of molecular events inside the cell. Do you have any theories for how this tongue is tickling the DNA, or whatever it's doing? You are not God. Radiolab is on YouTube! He was a born nurturer and he adored animals. PAT: I like you, I get the sense that there's a lot of warmth in you. OLOV BYGREN: The results are there. Or does it get passed on such a deep level that doesn't even require teaching? [WILL: Hi, this is Will, calling from Northumberland, England. The reason they're more aroused is that the mom's licking activates the release of adrenaline and noradrenaline in the pup. Is it a big town? Which I find kind of hard to believe but, then again, I must have read at least 100 news articles as I was reporting this story. You know? You know, like if you're abused as a kid, you were more likely to abuse your kid, but still, you got to wonder. You know, just take a little peek for themselves, and every time SAM KEAN: Kammerer said no, they were his specimens. ROBERT: That's Sam Kean again. BARBARA HARRIS: "She's born and tested positive for PCP crack and heroin." So were getting close to the moment of truth, because there it is. PAT WALTERS: Mamaw was the one I'd come to see. DESTINY HARRIS: That's my little girl. BARBARA HARRIS: This is 750 and this is 200. And I was a waitress, I worked for IHOP for over 30 years. SAM KEAN: I should add too. Its something I still think about all the time. JAD: Hey, wait. Harris says her program, children requiring a caring community, or CRACK], Can prevent thousands of unwanted births to drug-addicted women. The show is known for innovative sound design, smashing information into music. Stretching got into the baby. MICHAEL MEANEY: Yeah, you can't touch that. They could eat twice, three times as much. I'm Carl Zimmer's daughter. It was this struggle for a few years. I'm almost done. CARL ZIMMER: Kammerer puts on a suit and he walks off into the mountains SAM KEAN: Outside Vienna on a Rocky mountain trail. So here's what you're going to notice. And then, Michael just launched into this thing. LATIF: Oh you said it so much more diplomatically. I had a little basketball for her. She should be with me. JAD: And I know fate is gonna give them a couple random mutations in those genes. In any case, what they saw at the end of all this counting wasWell, first of all, what they saw was this pattern that rat pups who got licked a lot as babies, when they grew up, they licked their babies a lot and the rat pups who didn't get licked a lot, when they grew up, they didn't lick their babies. JAD: Everybody we talked to seems to think there's something really interesting going on here. JAD: We all know this, that there are cycles of abuse or whatever. She and I snuck away from the children into her office. Yeah, the social worker called and told me the mother had given birth. JAD: What happens, it'll get stuck to one little part of the DNA and now that little bit of DNA FRANCES CHAMPAGNE: Is very difficult to get at. I don't have the biggest boobies in the world. ROBERT: And that advantage, whatever it was, because it starts with one individual, and then it gets passed onto the kids, and then onto their kids, it would take a long, long, long time to spread through the whole population because, generally, that's how evolution works. PAT: Because the truth is, you have no idea how these kids are going to turn out. SAM KEAN: You got to help boost if you had a starving grandfather. CARL ZIMMER: To build these terrariums and aquariums and stock them with animals. The fact that you're motivated by a really beautiful, important value, that we want healthy kids, doesn't mean the mechanism you're using is going to end up helping those kids. Thyroid hormones then get into the brain and they turn on certain neural chemical signals. His big idea, as you might know, is that what a person does in their lifetime could be directly passed to their kids. ], [ARCHIVAL CLIP, BARBARA HARRIS: That's their choice, but the babies don't have a choice.]. I went to the hospital and picked him up. And since Kammerer kept the heat up, toads basically had to stay there, in this watery place that they had not evolved for. He thought that you could kind of engineer societies by changing the environment. If you start smoking when you're 10, 11 something like that, you end up having children with more problems. JAD: Many years later, he and this woman. That is a bad way to start a kid's life but that's just the beginning of the kid's life. Could you just tell us what you are doing now? These women don't just have one and two babies. JAD: Thats just the cold logic of Darwinian evolution. ROBERT: But luckily for the Vivarium and for our story, they had a guy. CARL ZIMMER: So they can grab onto the female and hold tight while they're mating. "She's born and tested positive for PCP crack and heroin." [ARCHIVAL Clip, Panel: Well, I mean, Hitler thought that if you were Jewish, that you had given up the right to be a mother and hed sterilize people as well. You just haven't evolved for this and there's no way you can, at least not quickly. I just saw them as child abusers. But according to Kammerer, shortly after these toads got into the water, they did begin to evolve fast. I'm trying to remember. CARL ZIMMER: That's the kind of guy he is. Something happens on the molecular level. If your grandpa didn't starve, instead he lived through great times. She started to wish again that she could have a daughter. PAT: It would be wrong to assume the women Barbara talks about on TV [ARCHIVAL CLIP, BARBARA HARRIS: These women don't just have one and two babies. What happens, it'll get stuck to one little part of the DNA and now that little bit of DNA And these things are called, apparently, methyl groups. Yes, but creating an assumption that there is a class of people who don't deserve to procreate, who aren't worthy of procreating the human race, leads you down a path that we should have great concern about. JAD: Because while you might have a lot of influence, you know, genetically speaking, over your kids and their kids, you don't seem to have a lot of control. You must have internet access to do this). JAD: Yeah, like you can help them overcome you. ROBERT: Which turn out to be an interesting thing to look at it because the people in verkalix who were farming SAM KEAN: Trying to eke a living out of the soil. ROBERT: And then the next one after that. CARL ZIMMER: I know what I'll do, I'm going to set up a terrarium for them and I'm going to make it hot, really uncomfortably hot. FRANCES CHAMPAGNE: I mean, when you think of Kammerer, there was a report in science outlining a theory about how Kammerer's toads got these characteristics FRANCES CHAMPAGNE: that invoked these epigenetic inheritance and imprinted genes and it made it plausible. LULU: A really good radiolab about this called Inheritance. MICHAEL MEANEY: I was an undergraduate student. And so, they just had to hold on for the entire winter. ROBERT: A few years later, there'd be a harsh winter. So that was just funny to me. That's how I've always looked at it. I could have turned out like some of the other kids. And to believe anything else, that's naive. What you see in the records, is that one year 100 liters. This is from 2002. Assuming that you can survive the ordeal, and you grow up, and you have kids of your own, the data seems to say that your kids will benefit from your suffering. PAT: In this magazine article, Barbara even said, quote, "We don't allow dogs to breed. JAD: Its an idea thats been kicking around for me since my kids were born. You know, you've got all these chemicals around. And Barbara is not offering that. That you're just renaming it. [laughs] Can you say, "Never, ever?" Kammerer puts on a suit and he walks off into the mountains Outside Vienna on a Rocky mountain trail. Destiny says one day, she and her mom were in the car, and her mom said She said, "I don't know, you know, maybe they'll grow bigger? PAT: Nobody's arguing that women should do drugs when they're pregnant. In pictures, he has that, you know, that crazy Einstein fuzzy hair thing. He actually coined the word biology, too. JAD: Still, that's a burden that, he's carrying a big burden there. 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