The Cataclysm Sentence

2023-06-30 · 73 min · episode 511 · 32 entities

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inding Things Out ( https://zpr.io/5KngTGibPVDw ) Caitlin Doughty, mortician - Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs ( https://zpr.io/Wn4bQgHzDRDB ) Esperanza Spalding, musician - 12 Little Spell
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er, writer - Substitute ( https://zpr.io/QAh2d7J9QJf2 ) James Gleick, writer - Time Travel ( https://zpr.io/9CWX9q3KmZj8 ) Lady Pink, artist - too many amazing works to
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and what we want to say before we go. Featuring: Richard Feynman, physicist - The Pleasure of Finding Things Out ( https://zpr.io/5KngTGibPVDw ) Caitlin Doughty, mortician - Will My Cat Eat M
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mentioned Time Travel concept

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er, writer - Substitute ( https://zpr.io/QAh2d7J9QJf2 ) James Gleick, writer - Time Travel ( https://zpr.io/9CWX9q3KmZj8 ) Lady Pink, artist - too many amazing works to
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er, writer - Substitute ( https://zpr.io/QAh2d7J9QJf2 ) James Gleick, writer - Time Travel ( https://zpr.io/9CWX9q3KmZj8 ) Lady Pink, artist - too many amazing works to
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discusses Society & Culture concept

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mentioned Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs book

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inding Things Out ( https://zpr.io/5KngTGibPVDw ) Caitlin Doughty, mortician - Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs ( https://zpr.io/Wn4bQgHzDRDB ) Esperanza Spalding, musician - 12 Little Spell
mentioned The Pleasure of Finding Things Out book

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evidence rules-v5
and what we want to say before we go. Featuring: Richard Feynman, physicist - The Pleasure of Finding Things Out ( https://zpr.io/5KngTGibPVDw ) Caitlin Doughty, mortician - Will My Cat Eat M
references Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs book

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evidence rules-v5
inding Things Out ( https://zpr.io/5KngTGibPVDw ) Caitlin Doughty, mortician - Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs ( https://zpr.io/Wn4bQgHzDRDB ) Esperanza Spalding, musician - 12 Little Spell
references The Pleasure of Finding Things Out book

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and what we want to say before we go. Featuring: Richard Feynman, physicist - The Pleasure of Finding Things Out ( https://zpr.io/5KngTGibPVDw ) Caitlin Doughty, mortician - Will My Cat Eat M

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Episode description as stored

Sad news for all of us: producer Rachael Cusick— who brought us soul-stirring stories rethinking grief (https://zpr.io/GZ6xEvpzsbHU) and solitude ( https://zpr.io/eT5tAX6JtYra ), as well as colorful musings on airplane farts ( https://zpr.io/CNpgUijZiuZ4 ) and belly flops ( https://zpr.io/uZrEz27z63CB ) and Blueberry Earths ( https://zpr.io/EzxgtdTRGVzz )— is leaving the show. So we thought it perfect timing to sit down with her and revisit another brainchild of hers, The Cataclysm Sentence, a collection of advice for The End. To explain: one day in 1961, the famous physicist Richard Feynman stepped in front of a Caltech lecture hall and posed this question to a group of undergraduate students: “If, in some cataclysm, all of scientific knowledge were to be destroyed, and only one sentence was passed on to the next generation of creatures, what statement would contain the most information in the fewest words?” Now, Feynman had an answer to his own question—a good one. But his question got the entire team at Radiolab wondering, what did his sentence leave out? So we posed Feynman’s cataclysm question to some of our favorite writers, artists, historians, futurists—all kinds of great thinkers. We asked them “What’s the one sentence you would want to pass on to the next generation that would contain the most information in the fewest words?” What came back was an explosive collage of what it means to be alive right here and now, and what we want to say before we go. Featuring: Richard Feynman, physicist - The Pleasure of Finding Things Out ( https://zpr.io/5KngTGibPVDw ) Caitlin Doughty, mortician - Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs ( https://zpr.io/Wn4bQgHzDRDB ) Esperanza Spalding, musician - 12 Little Spells ( https://zpr.io/KMjYrkwrz9dy ) Cord Jefferson, writer - Watchmen ( https://zpr.io/ruqKDQGy5Rv8 ) Merrill Garbus, musician - I Can Feel You Creep Into My Private Life (https://zpr.io/HmrqFX8RKuFq) Jenny Odell, writer - How to do Nothing ( https://zpr.io/JrUHu8dviFqc ) Maria Popova, writer - Brainpickings ( https://zpr.io/vsHXphrqbHiN ) Alison Gopnik, developmental psychologist - The Gardener and the Carpenter (https://zpr.io/ewtJpUYxpYqh) Rebecca Sugar, animator - Steven Universe ( https://zpr.io/KTtSrdsBtXB7 ) Nicholson Baker, writer - Substitute ( https://zpr.io/QAh2d7J9QJf2 ) James Gleick, writer - Time Travel ( https://zpr.io/9CWX9q3KmZj8 ) Lady Pink, artist - too many amazing works to pick just one (https://zpr.io/FkJh6edDBgRL) Jenny Hollwell, writer - Everything Lovely, Effortless, Safe (https://zpr.io/MjP5UJb3mMYP) Jaron Lanier, futurist - Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now (https://zpr.io/bxWiHLhPyuEK) Missy Mazzoli, composer - Proving Up (https://zpr.io/hTwGcHGk93Ty) Special Thanks to: Ella Frances Sanders, and her book, "Eating the Sun" (https://zpr.io/KSX6DruwRaYL), for inspiring this whole episode. Caltech for letting us use original audio of The Feynman Lectures on Physics. The entirety of the lectures are available to read for free online at www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu .All the musicians who helped make the Primordial Chord, including: Siavash Kamkar (https://zpr.io/2ZT46XsMRdhg), from Iran Koosha Pashangpour (https://zpr.io/etWDXuCctrzE), from Iran Curtis MacDonald (https://zpr.io/HQ8uskA44BUh), from Canada Meade Bernard (https://zpr.io/gbxDPPzHFvme), from US Barnaby Rea (https://zpr.io/9ULsQh5iGUPa), from UK Liav Kerbel (https://zpr.io/BA4DBwMhwZDU), from Belgium Sam Crittenden (https://zpr.io/EtQZmAk2XrCQ), from US Saskia Lankhoorn (https://zpr.io/YiH6QWJreR7p), from Netherlands Bryan Harris (https://zpr.io/HMiyy2TGcuwE), from US Amelia Watkins (https://zpr.io/6pWEw3y754me), from Canada Claire James (https://zpr.io/HFpHTUwkQ2ss), from US Ilario Morciano (https://zpr.io/zXvM7cvnLHW6), from Italy Matthias Kowalczyk , from Germany (https://zpr.io/ANkRQMp6NtHR) Solmaz Badri (https://zpr.io/MQ5VAaKieuyN), from IranAll the wonderful people we interv