Latif Nasser
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2,276 appearances
27 recordings
8 series
first heard Sep 2025
last heard 6d ago
Latif Nasser’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I mean, that is just a moment for nature that that could outperform so many thousands of human brains working on solving all kinds of problems.
And just like evolution had figured this out through its own longer timeline of trial and error.
Bless that, little bumblebee.
I mean, I guess what's so, I think about humans, one of our gifts and our curses is that we can jump to the future, you know, or the past.
We can jump out of the present, but we can worry.
And that's like entire industries, prediction, forecasting, whether it's weather or money or, you know, whatever.
But we spend time worrying about the future, but it feels like what this,
And the elegance, it's like not only to me is it beautiful that it came from bees because I'm a nature lover and I love it when nature outsmarts us or has more elegance in its design.
But it's also like one of the insights, if you wipe away all the technicalities, is like it's throwing away the future.
It's not basing its...
Decision of where to move based on a guess about the future.
It is only responding to the present.
It's on the edge of the present.
I mean, that's if anything, that might be a thing I like take around with me.
We also got a lot of help for this episode from Radiolab and Terrestrials resident bug correspondent, Sammy Ramsey.
And we couldn't have done this one without his help.
Big thank you to you, Sammy.
And if you want to hear more about bees and hear Sammy talking about them, we have a Terrestrials episode called The Crystal Ball.
Honeybees who predict the future.
You can go listen to him over there.
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