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Matt Kielty

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1691 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Radiolab
Life in a Barrel

Is it sort of like the Raup, bad genes, bad luck?

Radiolab
Life in a Barrel

Is it the Schaaf total randomness?

Radiolab
Life in a Barrel

Like, what is, what drives extinction?

Radiolab
Life in a Barrel

And the answer we got is that we still don't know.

Radiolab
Life in a Barrel

Like, we still haven't answered the question they sort of uncovered with this computer in Woods Hole.

Radiolab
Life in a Barrel

Well, I got to say I'm rooting for shop.

Radiolab
Life in a Barrel

I mean, if it doesn't matter how quote unquote fit or muscly or well honed or sleek our model is, that doesn't relate to how long we're going to like hang around on earth.

Radiolab
Life in a Barrel

It means in a very real way, like we're all equally good.

Radiolab
Life in a Barrel

And for me, it creaks open all this fear.

Radiolab
Life in a Barrel

that might be waiting behind things that we look at and deem unfit or deformed or weenie bird-esque.

Radiolab
Life in a Barrel

Like, it gives all this... It returns all this possibility that gives me a sense of, like, thrill.

Radiolab
Life in a Barrel

Like, it makes me want to look at the things I'm discounting, you know?

Radiolab
Life in a Barrel

Okay, so to me, like, it's this, right?

Radiolab
Life in a Barrel

Like, let's say we used to have this idea of...

Radiolab
Life in a Barrel

fitness where it's like okay there are the cool kids who are fit and they in the old mentality to be like yeah like this is like we're we're team human there's some people that get picked first for team human who are the ones who are helping us survive and some people who get picked last for team human who are like us

Radiolab
Life in a Barrel

But then this, it seems like this, if it's like, oh, okay, your survival, actually, even the fittest people, they're not necessarily helping you survive.

Radiolab
Life in a Barrel

Those super fit characteristics, you could still get hit by a bus and that's the way they go.