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The Cataclysm Sentence

Episode 2 of 8

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: β€œIf, 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.

55 minutes

Last on

Mon 12 Dec 2022 20:00

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  • Sun 21 Mar 2021 11:00
  • Sun 21 Mar 2021 19:00
  • Mon 12 Dec 2022 20:00