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From the Radiolab podcast: There’s a strange and disorienting world tucked inside your brain. Best hope it doesn’t sneak out.
In this episode, first aired in 2012, we have two stories of brains pushed off-course. We relive a surreal day in the life of a young researcher hijacked by her own brain, and hear from a librarian experiencing a bizarre and mysterious set of symptoms that she called “gravitational anarchy.”
Special thanks to Sarah Montague and Ellen Horne, as well as actress Hope Davis, who read Rosemary Morton’s story. And the late Berton Roueché, who wrote that story down.
EPISODE CREDITS:
Produced by Brenna Farrell.
Original music and sound design contributed by Tim Howard and Douglas Smith.
EPISODE CITATIONS:
Berton Roueché’s story about Rosemary Morton, "Essentially Normal” first appeared in the New Yorker in 1958, and was later published by Dutton in a book called "The Medical Detectives."
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From the Radiolab podcast: There’s a strange and disorienting world tucked inside your brain. Best hope it doesn’t sneak out.
In this episode, first aired in 2012, we have two stories of brains pushed off-course. We relive a surreal day in the life of a young researcher hijacked by her own brain, and hear from a librarian experiencing a bizarre and mysterious set of symptoms that she called “gravitational anarchy.”
Special thanks to Sarah Montague and Ellen Horne, as well as actress Hope Davis, who read Rosemary Morton’s story. And the late Berton Roueché, who wrote that story down.
EPISODE CREDITS:
Produced by Brenna Farrell.
Original music and sound design contributed by Tim Howard and Douglas Smith.
EPISODE CITATIONS:
Berton Roueché’s story about Rosemary Morton, "Essentially Normal” first appeared in the New Yorker in 1958, and was later published by Dutton in a book called "The Medical Detectives."
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Photo illustration by Jared Bartman
Video by W. Harry Fortuna
