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. As he reflects on the evolution of photon-grabbing proteins called opsins, guest musician Thao Nguyen chimes in with whistles and guitar strums, while shadow puppets on a yellow screen reach out to snatch dots representing quantum packets of light.”
