Feb. 22 – 26, 2016
RadioLab doesn’t run climate change stories. Cassie asks her husband, who works for RadioLab, why not. Cassie’s husband explains about anti-stories. Cassie says, “what the hell.”
Jennifer was out in the rain and cold, and was on the receiving end of kindness and empathy. She doesn’t care whether her kind empathizer was just making him/herself feel good. “Good begets good,” she says. “It doesn’t matter why.”
Helen set up her easel in front of Rubens’ Daniel in the Lion’s Den so she could copy some lions. What she ended up with was “Daniela with her blue martini, her pet lion, and the skull of the last man who tried to mess with her.”
Cameron considers a cartoon called the Octonauts, some citizen science called JellyWatch, thinks the octopi and jellies all inhabit a quiet world, and wonders, “What could go wrong?”
Sarah tries to love ticks, a journey that takes her through John Mayer, the U.S. National Tick Collection, and a clearly-crazed entomologist.