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Rumpus contributor Maddie Oatman profiles Radiolab’s Jad Abumrad for Mother Jones.
What happens when a nerdy science show experiments with live stage performances? A sneak peak:
“‘Even Charles Darwin himself—Chuck D!—says, “The eye, to this day, gives me sort of a shudder,”‘ Abumrad declares.
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If you listened to Radiolab or read the New Yorker in the last three years, you’ve probably encountered the science journalist Jonah Lehrer.
“I was seeing something about the human mind. I was seeing the author in the text in a way that people hadn’t seen the author in the text before.”
Jed Abumrad of Radiolab talks with scientists about how our use of words—the density and complexity of our sentences, or lack thereof—may be an indicator of our current and future mental health.
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