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From the Radiolab podcast: Welcome to the Grammys of Government-funded research.
After years of being publicly shamed for “fleecing” the taxpayers with their frivolous and obscure studies, scientists decided to hit back with … an awards show?! This episode, we gate-crash the Grammys of government-funded research, a.k.a. the Golden Goose Awards. The twist of these awards is that they go to scientific research that at first sounds trivial or laughable but then turns out to change the world. We tell the story of one of the latest winners: a lonely Filipino boy who picked up an ice cream cone that was actually a covert vampire assassin. Decades later, that discovery leads to an even bigger one: an entire pharmacy's worth of new drugs hidden just below the surface of the ocean.
Gorgeous slo mo video of cone snails hunting (zpr.io/uiWrS3J2BuZM).
A recent segment from our down-the-hall neighbors at On The Media (zpr.io/VZHSLPdkdAxH) about breakthrough science featuring the late Senator William Proxmire.
Check out dazzling documentary shorts on each of the Golden Goose Awards winners (zpr.io/Tpxxrzzuz6GS) on their website.
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Photo illustration Jared Bartman
From the Radiolab podcast: Welcome to the Grammys of Government-funded research.
After years of being publicly shamed for “fleecing” the taxpayers with their frivolous and obscure studies, scientists decided to hit back with … an awards show?! This episode, we gate-crash the Grammys of government-funded research, a.k.a. the Golden Goose Awards. The twist of these awards is that they go to scientific research that at first sounds trivial or laughable but then turns out to change the world. We tell the story of one of the latest winners: a lonely Filipino boy who picked up an ice cream cone that was actually a covert vampire assassin. Decades later, that discovery leads to an even bigger one: an entire pharmacy's worth of new drugs hidden just below the surface of the ocean.
Gorgeous slo mo video of cone snails hunting (zpr.io/uiWrS3J2BuZM).
A recent segment from our down-the-hall neighbors at On The Media (zpr.io/VZHSLPdkdAxH) about breakthrough science featuring the late Senator William Proxmire.
Check out dazzling documentary shorts on each of the Golden Goose Awards winners (zpr.io/Tpxxrzzuz6GS) on their website.
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Guests in this episode include: Baldomero "Toto" Olivera
Photo illustration Jared Bartman
