FRANCES CHAMPAGNE: Putting this into context, you know, you have a rat mom and they have about 16 to 20 babies. Radiolab: Parasites Transcript For copyright reasons we can't provide a transcript of the WNYC Radiolab feature on parasites. But were getting ahead of ourselves here. I want to start with a parental day dream for a second. I wont say too much more except it includes one of my favorite kind of scientific parables that like Ive ever heard. ", In other words, "Could I pay women who have drug problems to stop having babies?". Right away, people accused her of targeting women at their weakest moment and enabling their drug abuse. But, I said this to Lynn, "Despite all the things that trouble me about Barbara's program, I feel like what she's trying to do is to stop a kid from getting born into a childhood that's going to suck.". She and I snuck away from the children into her office. Then she goes, "Oh wait, I didn't give birth to you. After I've gotten to know so many of the women. This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. That tongue is doing something to the DNA. And eventually, over the millenia, what youd get, is a creature with a very long neck. Since birth. With NPR's Rough Translation. JAD: What can't you? That kind of 30 years? And he said, "Barbara, I'm not buying a school bus." BARBARA HARRIS: Yes, she has the same name as me. I was just pissed at what they have done to my children. I had everybody's abuse on my back and I didn't care how we said it, or how we did it. More information about Sloan at. So, of course the folks at the Vivarium asked him. ROBERT: [laughs] "This may hurt you my son, but I'm doing it for my grandchildren.". MICHAEL MEANEY: Yeah, you can't touch that. Kammerer thought, "Wow. Once their born, their genes are fixed and change does not happen in a generation or two. Radiolab is supported in part by the National Science Foundation and by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, enhancing public understanding of science and technology in the modern world. But a year later, the social worker called again. Full transcript: Radiolab co-host Jad Abumrad on Recode Media The new season of More Perfect, a spinoff show from Radiolab, began airing Oct. 2. I should add too. JAD: That's against the rules. Like, I mean, as far as positives can go, I think I hit the jackpot. The neural chemical signal that gets activated during licking, is serotonin. LYNN PALTROW: Are there people whose drug use is so out of control they can't parent? 10 Controversial And Thought-Provoking 'Radiolab' Episodes. And then, Michael just launched into this thing. I mean, when you think of Kammerer, there was a report in science outlining a theory about how Kammerer's toads got these characteristics that invoked these epigenetic inheritance and imprinted genes and it made it plausible. And you have to bear in mind that at this point, it only had one hand left. And as of 11:01 a.m. on Tuesday, when were recording this, we have not broken the show. KARIN BORGKVIST LJUNG: Cancer. That doesn't matter. Were told. My mom needed a girl and, boop! It's only the mechanisms are not so clear. And again, Barbara thinks, "Come on, but if this little girl is here, she should be with her brother and sister. But this stuff you're telling me about Sweden feels very grim in a certain way. Part 2 of our collaboration with Radiolab. Yes. It takes a while. He was mighty skeptical. Honestly, I think it never seemed like she was anything but my real mom, if that makes sense. PAT: But were getting ahead of ourselves here. Move on to the next cage, yes, no? Still, that's a burden that, he's carrying a big burden there. And in 1989, when the story we're telling now started, she was living in California, in Orange County. And Barbara is not offering that. We talked to her for a little while and At a certain point the social worker pulls out a stack of papers. PAT: Yeah. LATIF: This is Radiolab. JAD: We ended up talking to the guy who did the work. JAD: In any case, these books tell you when each of these folks died, how they died. PAT: But along with the support came attacks, particularly as drug-addicted women began to sign up. Meaning that they had less incidence of heart disease? LYNN PALTROW: Well, her explanation is that these women are having, in her terms, litters of damaged babies and society forever will be responsible for them. We had an expression here, "Dig where you stand." CARL ZIMMER: I know what I'll do, I'm going to set up a terrarium for them and I'm going to make it hot, really uncomfortably hot. See, this is the story of science that doesn't get told. It might be a mixture. FRANCES CHAMPAGNE: Not usually because it upsets people and I'm Canadian. PAT: For me, this whole story really shifted PAT: When I started spending some time with Destiny, Barbara's 22-year-old daughter. You can't see that on the radio but, hey, it's a fact of life. Stick around. How was this woman allowed", "To walk into the hospital and drop off a damaged baby and just walk away with no consequences?". And Barbara and Destiny walked me out to my car. Or is it? ROBERT: I think that makes a lot of sense. I'm the founder and director of Project Prevention. The event that really sets this story in motion, the set of events, happened a few months after Barbara had brought Destiny home. What can't you? I think that's where Lamarck's ideas can be woven in and make some sense. PAT: And she told Barbara, "There's something you need to know about this baby.". Big questions are. Methyl groups are pretty sticky, they're hard to get off. Nobody has a right to do that to a baby. Plus, find other cool things we did in the past like miniseries, music videos, short films and animations, behind-the-scenes features, Radiolab live shows, and more. And I just felt like it was in one of those moments that contains everything that's good about us as people. On the Radiolab website they define the show as follows: "Radiolab is a show about curiosity. His famous example was giraffes. JAD: People can't just will themselves into a more perfect form. And he was going through withdrawal. PAT: But at that point just two of the six boys were living at home, Brian and Rodney. And according to Barbara, the majority of the women she pays are white. Yeah, it was a very attractive theory to them in Moscow. Okay, and then I just had to accept it. SAM KEAN: Yeah, it was a very attractive theory to them in Moscow. What they decided to do first was to try to figure out which rat was which, which meant, interestingly, counting all the legs. Inheritance, what you can move on to the next generation and what you can't. Barbara started finding herself on panels with women who'd use drugs during their pregnancies. He's not even eating at all. DESTINY HARRIS: Honestly, I think it never seemed like she was anything but my real mom, if that makes sense. To build these terrariums and aquariums and stock them with animals. Have you ever had someone call or write you and say that they regret their decision? We neuter them.". The reason they're more aroused is that the mom's licking activates the release of adrenaline and noradrenaline in the pup. ], I'd like everybody to meet, please, Barbara Harris. So that was just funny to me. That's the stuff that makes you you. Knock it right off the DNA. ROBERT: And this idea won him a lot of fans, including, not surprisingly, the Soviets. I think I was really horrified and terrified. You know, inside these cells, in the center, coiled up in little spools, is the DNA. "To Whom It May Concern, I have been doing very good. ROBERT: Instead of dying at 40, I'd live to 70? Sincerely, Jennifer.". PAT: Isaiah's in college and Taylor and Brandon, I met them at Barbara's house and they seemed to be fine. These are four kids from the same birth mother? He was just You know, most babies are kinda peaceful, he was never really peaceful. A lot of times that's not the case. He's not even eating at all. I just didnt think. Around 1908, he started publishing all of these results. JAD: Wait, when you say they can choose to be sterilized, you mean permanent? The team that creates each episode, including hosts Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich, are master storytellers. Okay, you want to say bye? So he actually went to Vienna. SAM KEAN: It seemed to have been passed down for multiple generations. BARBARA HARRIS: I was just pissed at what they have done to my children. And well just let the old yahoos from whom we inheritedededed inherited it take it away. You've got these toads who hate water. What they decided to do first was to try to figure out which rat was which, which meant, interestingly, counting all the legs. I know! It seemed to have been passed down for multiple generations. We had an expression here, "Dig where you stand." It's against the rules. Isaiah would sleep and he would scream. So some scientists began to ask Kammerer if they could look at his toads. ], I'm going to go out into the streets and offer addicted women money to use birth control. I don't like to upset people. They have found very similar effects for smoking, for instance. JAD: If they see methyl groups sitting on that bit of DNA, they are pissed. JAD: It's off-limits. JAD: [laughs] Youre just just judo, that's all this is. I mean, I'm married to a Black man. ], [ARCHIVAL CLIP, BARBARA HARRIS: That's their choice, but the babies don't have a choice.]. ROBERT: And youre saying that part of the DNA is covered up? If Barbara had gotten to Destiny's birth mom, Destiny, Kalia, this moment, none of it would exist. JAD: Its an idea thats been kicking around for me since my kids were born. LULU: A really good radiolab about this called Inheritance. Its something I still think about all the time. He was really one of the first grand theorists in biology. PAT: And even though they look basically nothing alike. You've got these toads who hate water. [ARCHIVAL CLIP, Jad Abumrad: Whats that called?]. I just didnt think. PAT: Did that scare you at all? In a very real way, weve been thinking a lot about inheritance. Well think about it, this is nature and nurture slamming into each other. And youre saying that part of the DNA is covered up? LULU: Yeah, thats it. Yeah, there you go. Kalia came too. It might be a mixture. Life is hard.". JAD: Yeah, like you can help them overcome you. Riksarkivet. Your support helps Radiolab continue to provoke, delight, and keep audiences curious. If your grandpa didn't starve, instead he lived through great times. Inheritance from Radiolab on Podchaser, aired Friday, 1st April 2022. You got to kick it back. The little baby that we keep hearing in the background of everything. But this was a really, really tough place to grow up. ROBERT: So, of course the folks at the Vivarium asked him. ROBERT: They would experience these wild changes from harvest to harvest. Yeah, like you can help them overcome you. Yeah, the social worker called and told me the mother had given birth. I'm graduating in December. Okay, so lets get going and stick with your boy, Lamarck, just for a sec. Yeah. So imagine the DNA in that brain cell. I don't know where she gets that from. Or is it? BARBARA HARRIS: Aw, you blew him a kiss? Were just talking about toad, I thought. Visit our website terms of use at www.wnyc.org for further information. PAT: Barbara says they've reached out to her many times but they never heard back. A few years later, there'd be a harsh winter. Destiny says before she was born, her mom had four other girls. [ARCHIVAL Clip, News: Barbara Harris says she's convinced more than a dozen women], [ARCHIVAL Clip, News: Have accepted her offer to be sterilized in return for money.]. Take a look, explore and subscribe! One time, and I'm on flighter. RADIOLAB Podcast "Inheritance" Homework Assignment Name: Rohan Desai PSUID: 9 6241 8529 Listen to the first three stories of the "Inheritance" Radiolab Podcast (Control + click on link to access podcast. SAM KEAN: If you have a starving daddy, it turns out that the baby actually gets some sort of health benefit. Not only that. JAD: So this whole debate, two totally different ways of seeing life. Sample Page; ; Stick around. MICHAEL MEANEY: That's it. Kalia came too. As to diabetes, it was a four-fold risk. And thats wrong [laughs].Thats not how it works. Through all the training that we had to do and first aid, fingerprinted and had a background check done. You know? But if you've got a mom who licks you. I guess retard. Peanut butter, there we go. JAD: Do you have any theories for how this tongue is tickling the DNA, or whatever it's doing? You're obviously a great mom, but that feels cold to me. If you start smoking when you're 10, 11 something like that, you end up having children with more problems. But then, a few years would pass, crops would bounce back. That you can, somehow, by just being nice to them, reading them stories, or whatever, that you can somehow break them free of all that. Who, together, pledged more than $150,000 to her program.]. SAM KEAN: It was this struggle for a few years. You know, the fact is that taking care of animals, trying to keep them alive in a building is not an easy thing, especially if it's 1903. JAD: Actually, the idea itself is pretty old. I don't like to upset people. And if you haven't, you can choose to have an IUD, or an implant put in which will last for several years. When Emil gets to be eight, I'm cutting him off. He had one remaining midwife toad. That's how we ended up with four of them. One-fourth? As a parent, you are a tiny blip in a very, very, long story. BARBARA HARRIS: And I was a waitress, I worked for IHOP for over 30 years. Radiolab is on YouTube! But the results are very clear. Once a kid is born, their genetic fate is pretty much sealed. Just don't have any more children because, at that point, I didn't really know any of them. That was amazing. Its a terrible thought! His example with humans was a blacksmith. JAD: You got your good parents and your bad parents. JAD: And these things are called, apparently, methyl groups. Yes, he was retarded. Nice, cool water. JAD: What's he talking about? JAD: I mean, it's pretty common but like, here's a for instance, my dad from my entire life had this thing where if someone was whistling, he would like they could be whistling six tables over in a restaurant and he would turn around and be like, "Stop that," it was like it was scraping his very nerves. So she told me Barbara had another baby and BARBARA HARRIS: Did we want it? Oh you said it so much more diplomatically. These people are paying millions of dollars to take care of your children!]. I had asked for a newborn, so when the social worker called me, she said, "I have this cute little baby girl for you but she's eight months old. Never mind, you're stuck with small boobies." [WILL: Hi, this is Will, calling from Northumberland, England. Because we had already had to upgrade from a car to a van, from a condo to a home. ], That's their choice, but the babies don't have a choice.]. PAT: This great. OLOV BYGREN: So they didn't starve to death. That, in a sort of ass backward way was Michael's question. So for Isaiah, being born was like just being cut off. Listen Feb 3, 2023 Ukraine: The Handoff Pregnancy, and choice, in a war. We ask deep questions and use investigative journalism to get the answers. You have to look at one cage, say, are they licking? So, the thought is, when those little boys in verkalix were really, really hungry, their hunger started a chemical process that reached all the way down to the DNA inside the boy's sperm. JAD: But according to Kammerer, here's what happened when he heated up the toads little cage. You're slippery, partner's slippery. So if they saw somebody who was starving as a kid in 1820, they could then see, "Well, when those people had children and grandchildren, did anything change? The neural chemical signal that gets activated during licking, is serotonin. It's writer, Sam Kean again, and here's, he says, what you need to know about the midwife toad. I'm Carl Zimmer's daughter. What happens, it'll get stuck to one little part of the DNA and now that little bit of DNA And these things are called, apparently, methyl groups. Because here's the thing, the churches up in verkalix kept incredibly detailed records. No, not brain cells. MICHAEL MEANEY: I think the Swedish data are really, really strong, and very reliable. JAD: Michael and Frances looked inside the brains of these rats and what they saw was that the rats who had been licked a lot as babies, they had more stuff in their head. PAT: The way she saw it, the state, the federal government, somebody BARBARA HARRIS: Should say, "You're not doing this. DESTINY HARRIS: No, she was an oops kid. ROBERT: And they didn't have these on land? In this episode, originally aired in 2012, we put nature and nurture on a collision course and discover how outside forces can find a way inside us, and chan She's 20 months old. Is that what you're saying? Truth is, we dont know precisely how this happens but somehow the experience of starvation marks the DNA. As to diabetes, it was a four-fold risk. He'd fall asleep and just wake up screaming. This whole toad thing, to the Darwinian faction, it didn't scan really. BARBARA HARRIS: Light bothered him, noise bothered him. [expletive] That was awesome. I don't have the biggest boobies in the world. Well, I guess I was thinking we could just start at the beginning. [laughs[ Exactly. SECTION I - Story 1 (Lamark, Krammerer & the Midwife Toads) 1. We spay them. Nobody has a right to do that to a baby. Once their born, their genes are fixed and change does not happen in a generation or two. So, somehow, by some chemical mechanism, starving grandpa, back when he was about 9 to 12 years old, turned out to be a good thing. Thats like, I mean, that seems like a thing that would be frightening. Then, Carl told us about this research that showed Well, he couldn't quite remember the details. LYNN PALTROW: I'm Executive Director and Founder of National Advocates for Pregnant Women. US $53.6 Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for VCM II Main Cable VCM2 16pin Cable VCM 2 OBD2 Cable VCM ii IDS V101 Data Cable at the best online prices at Free shipping for many products I'm going to graduate with honors and one day I'm going to be able to tell her, "Look, I did this. They would experience these wild changes from harvest to harvest. CARL ZIMMER: She is nine. SAM KEAN: No, they did not have them on land. It happens. He was known for going around and giving, what he called, his big show lectures, where he would wow whole audiences of people. Methylations, phosphorylation, and so on. SAM KEAN: And, you know, there was kind of antisemitism growing at this time, so he thought that someone had framed him, and six weeks after Nobel published his results in Nature, Kammerer sent a letter to Moscow. It's such a surprising result. 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