So then the one that's in trouble, so thats one of, So I guess you could say to yourself, "Seven out of eight of these kids did all right?". Radiolab is on YouTube! And since Kammerer kept the heat up, toads basically had to stay there, in this watery place that they had not evolved for. ], You get them $200 each, which they can spend on crack. Its a terrible thought! Your support helps Radiolab continue to provoke, delight, and keep audiences curious. Life is hard.". It's just a mind crushing tedium. As a parent, you are a tiny blip in a very, very, long story. And the key point is that it wasnt something inborn in them. He was mighty skeptical. ROBERT: So, of course the folks at the Vivarium asked him. That is a bad way to start a kid's life but that's just the beginning of the kid's life. JAD: I tell you what I'm going to do though. JAD: That is impossible, so far as we know, but there seems to be this layer on top of the genes. [laughs[ Exactly. ROBERT: You mean, if you had a starving grandfather, you would be a healthier boy for the because you had a starving grandfather? And well just let the old yahoos from whom we inheritedededed inherited it take it away. BARBARA HARRIS: A couple of days later, I had already bonded with her so much, it was as if I gave birth to her. Darwin's theory would have said, you know, 90% of the toads are going to die. SAM KEAN: But this was a really, really tough place to grow up. And those lucky ones, according to Darwin's theory, they would have had to have been born with some random mutation in their genes That gave them an advantage in this situation. I wonder. He was just You know, most babies are kinda peaceful, he was never really peaceful. ROBERT: Do you know anything about the other four? And I packed up my stuff, it's pretty much done. And um Doctors would later explain to Barbara that Destiny's mom had been addicted to drugs while she was pregnant. All these chemicals racing by crashing into it, sticking, and one of the bits that gets covered up is that little bit that makes the proteins that create a maternal instinct. [ARCHIVAL CLIP, toddler: Theres the moon.]. Yes, she has the same name as me. Radiolab believes your ears are a portal to another world. If you have a starving daddy, it turns out that the baby actually gets some sort of health benefit. I want to start with a parental day dream for a second. SAM KEAN: And his lab ended up getting destroyed. And all over the political spectrum, from Hollywood lefties to social conservatives. A little village? Thats just the cold logic of Darwinian evolution. Also, thanks to Carl Zimmer whose latest is Evolution: Making Sense of Life. And these effects, in fact, were so strong that you could trace it to the grandfather. But along with the support came attacks, particularly as drug-addicted women began to sign up. LYNN PALTROW: The fact that you're motivated by a really beautiful, important value, that we want healthy kids, doesn't mean the mechanism you're using is going to end up helping those kids. That's against the rules. So he actually went to Vienna. It says, "Race of Supermen." Just to be sure, we asked Frances Champagne what she thinks of this data. You're now hearing Lamarck's name invoked these days because there are things beyond genes that we pass down to our children. But a few of us make a habit of it. What they decided to do first was to try to figure out which rat was which, which meant, interestingly, counting all the legs. Is that what you're saying? She's 22 now and she's never even met her birth mom. Most toads, he says, love to stay in the water. PAT: And in 1989, when the story we're telling now started, she was living in California, in Orange County. BARBARA HARRIS: Since birth. JAD: And I know fate is gonna give them a couple random mutations in those genes. When rats have more of this protein, they will act more motherly. Nobody's arguing that women should do drugs when they're pregnant. Yes, he was retarded. And so, her name is Kalia. Because the truth is, you have no idea how these kids are going to turn out. What they decided to do first was to try to figure out which rat was which, which meant, interestingly, counting all the legs. JAD: Even if it helps, it's horrifying. PAT: For me, this whole story really shifted PAT: When I started spending some time with Destiny, Barbara's 22-year-old daughter. DESTINY HARRIS: My situation turned out positive. [2] [ARCHIVAL Clip, News: Harris says her program, children requiring a caring community, or CRACK], [ARCHIVAL Clip, News: Can prevent thousands of unwanted births to drug-addicted women. JAD: He works at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden where he studies population data. More what kind of stuff? JAD: One parent stretching isnt going to do anything, see thats the bummer of Darwinian evolution. PAT: Like shed give the women a choice. Well, her explanation is that these women are having, in her terms, litters of damaged babies and society forever will be responsible for them. Move on to the next cage yes, no? JAD: To fellow named Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, chevalier de Lamarck. Move on to the next cage, yes, no? Just a little. Famine again, and these changes would just bounce back and forth. JAD: What can't you? PAT: And all over the political spectrum, from Hollywood lefties to social conservatives. When they got another call from a social worker saying that same mother, Destiny's birth mother, had given birth to another child. I just got custody of my eight-year-old son. PAT: She did. I guess the way I would look at it is that you can change your environment a lot more easily than you can change your genes. ROBERT: You cant say that. [ARCHIVAL Clip, Daytime Talkshow: You know what they're going to go do with that money. JAD: You can imagine these toads are like, "Dammit, fine. I mean, yes, I might get a great family, but I might not. Thyroid hormones then get into the brain and they turn on certain neural chemical signals. We went to the foster home and went in. Maybe like those methyl things we were telling you about with the rats. She and I snuck away from the children into her office. You are not God. It happens. ROBERT: Remind me this. PAT: Which I find kind of hard to believe but, then again, I must have read at least 100 news articles as I was reporting this story. CARL ZIMMER: And he makes a very careful study of this hand. The neural chemical signal that gets activated during licking, is serotonin. And that could have very easily have been one of us. Well, its offensive. I dont know. JAD: Well, its offensive. "I want to thank you for your support and kindness as always." In pictures, he has that, you know, that crazy Einstein fuzzy hair thing. Well, I mean, Hitler thought that if you were Jewish, that you had given up the right to be a mother and hed sterilize people as well. Sincerely, Jennifer.". Just don't have any more children because, at that point, I didn't really know any of them. JAD: Who now works at Columbia University. JAD: I mean, were not gonna do that ourselves. Barbara says they've reached out to her many times but they never heard back. Well, there was an expert on reptiles named G. Kingsley Noble. They began to grow these all puffy things on their hands. Where we began, they will accomplish. MICHAEL MEANEY: I was an undergraduate student. You got to help boost if you had a starving grandfather. One-fourth? And this idea won him a lot of fans, including, not surprisingly, the Soviets. MICHAEL MEANEY: Yes. And rewrite the so-called rules of genetics. _. Radiolab is on YouTube! DESTINY HARRIS: Honestly, I think it never seemed like she was anything but my real mom, if that makes sense. I guess retard. Peanut butter, there we go. And when it came time to mate, the males and the females, they would mate in the water. Thyroid hormones then get into the brain and they turn on certain neural chemical signals. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and human experience. Radiolab 50.3K subscribers Subscribe 29 1.5K views 6 months ago On this episode, the case that pushed one Supreme Court justice to a nervous breakdown, brought a boiling feud to a head, and. Then World War One came and that disrupted everything. And then that baby would stretch and stretch, and it would give a little more stretching to its baby. JAD: What's he talking about? DESTINY HARRIS: And right now, I'm student teaching. [laughs[ So yeah, it's embarrassing, but I believe everything happens for a reason. JAD: I got to say this is spooky. So were getting close to the moment of truth, because there it is. Never mind, you're stuck with small boobies." Three of them ended up in other foster homes and seem to have done pretty well, but one of them DESTINY HARRIS: Okay, well of them, don't really know what happened to her. PAT: As Barbara made the rounds on the daytime talk shows, the reaction was split right down the middle. [chuckles]. PAT: And she says, one day, this idea just came to her. When I started spending some time with Destiny, Barbara's 22-year-old daughter. CARL ZIMMER: That's the kind of guy he is. PAT: Over the past five years, if you look at our tax return. CARL ZIMMER: You're now hearing Lamarck's name invoked these days because there are things beyond genes that we pass down to our children. by Nolan Moore. That was the implication, except Kammerer tried to defend himself by saying "Do you think I'm a Dummkopf, or an idiot, because that's what I would have to be if I left a forgery with ink standing around openly in the laboratory where so many of my enemies would have entry?". We ended up talking to the guy who did the work. ROBERT: Well, lets not get too excited too fast because we have a story to tell and this tale leaves me a little queasy. When you explore what makes people tick or how the universe . 10 Controversial And Thought-Provoking 'Radiolab' Episodes. JAD: These are four kids from the same birth mother? OLOV BYGREN: Looking for patterns in cardiovascular diseases, high blood pressure, and such. JAD: Because here's the thing, the churches up in verkalix kept incredibly detailed records. DESTINY HARRIS: As you can see, I like to talk. And they had more. Still, that's a burden that, he's carrying a big burden there. Just sing. This is Radiolab. And at first, it didn't go so well because, you know, if you're a land toad and you're trying to have sex in the water, it's kind of hard. ROBERT: That's interesting. That's the stuff that makes you you. CARL ZIMMER: And in1923, he actually comes to England. You know, when smart people say, you know, "There's no such thing as nature and nurture it's only interaction of the two," You're like, "What the hell does that mean?" Because you begin with a mother's lick that ends up with a deep, deep change in the baby, not just the good, warm, fuzzy feeling, but a fundamental shift in who that baby is, and who that baby will be. Like, mine are bigger, you know." But it failed. His reputation was that he could get inside the mind of, say, a salamander and know just what it wanted to eat. Listen Feb 3, 2023 Ukraine: The Handoff Pregnancy, and choice, in a war. At this really marvelous place called the Vivarium. She started to wish again that she could have a daughter. I think I was really horrified and terrified. FRANCES CHAMPAGNE: Why? He had one remaining midwife toad. And if you haven't, you can choose to have an IUD, or an implant put in which will last for several years. Thank you so much for your interest in Radiolab. ROBERT: And this idea won him a lot of fans, including, not surprisingly, the Soviets. I do mean that. The little baby that we keep hearing in the background of everything. He's not even eating at all. She's 20 months old. ], [ARCHIVAL CLIP, Jad Abumrad: Yeah, lets read.]. We'll just get one more.". Whole lifetime of stretching. Is it a big town? Last I heard she was living on the streets in LA. We ask deep questions and use investigative journalism to get the answers. PAT: I asked Barbara about some of the things that she'd said because, to be totally honest, they kind of turn my stomach. So they can grab onto the female and hold tight while they're mating. Yes, but creating an assumption that there is a class of people who don't deserve to procreate, who aren't worthy of procreating the human race, leads you down a path that we should have great concern about. Radiolab is on a curiosity bender. DESTINY HARRIS: Our staff includes Alan Horn, Soren Wheeler, Pat Walters DESTINY HARRIS: With help from Matt Kielty, Chris [unintelligible 01:04:17], PAT'S DAD: And Kenny [unintelligible 01:04:18], PAT: Special thanks to Martin [unintelligible 01:04:21]. Accuracy and availability may vary. JAD: And then, Michael just launched into this thing. CARL ZIMMER: Around 1908, he started publishing all of these results. JAD: [expletive] That was awesome. But in the middle of a conversation about how to fight the virus, we find a place impervious to the stalled plans and frenetic demands of the outside world. Around 1908, he started publishing all of these results. PAT: A year later, she gets another call. Because we had already had to upgrade from a car to a van, from a condo to a home. What exactly happens between 9 to 12 that makes this big difference? The neural chemical signal that gets activated during licking, is serotonin. OLOV BYGREN: It was very interesting discovery. I'm the founder and director of Project Prevention. And youre saying that part of the DNA is covered up? I mean, were not gonna do that ourselves. Thats like, I mean, that seems like a thing that would be frightening. ], That's their choice, but the babies don't have a choice.]. Were less prone to diabetes. ", PAT: In other words, "Could I pay women who have drug problems to stop having babies?". Barbara Harris. She's not offering treatment, she's not offering counseling, and there are programs that do that. SAM KEAN: Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck. It does, it does make kind of a folk sense. SAM KEAN: I should add too. FRANCES CHAMPAGNE: I think that's where Lamarck's ideas can be woven in and make some sense. BARBARA HARRIS: Sounds bizarre, but it's a solution. That's 9, 10, 11. Were there any consequences? Maybe they'd try and jump back out, but it was still hot so they'd have to jump back in. [chuckles]. JAD: So heres the backstory. That was nice. I'm almost done. He was born in 1880 in Vienna, Jewish family. Even if it helps, it's horrifying. She's 22 now and she's never even met her birth mom. There was a newspaper called The Daily Express and they have these headlines that come out. It was something they acquired during their lifetime. SMITTY HARRIS: He was just You know, most babies are kinda peaceful, he was never really peaceful. What's he talking about? PEJK MALINOVSKI: What does that mean, he was an idiot? Meet Jeremiah! JAD: But according to Kammerer, here's what happened when he heated up the toads little cage. PAT: And she told Barbara, "There's something you need to know about this baby.". So by now it's 1994, and Barbara is thinking You know? You can't change your DNA. Well, so here's the thing. Because when a woman uses heroin while she's pregnant, the fetus gets hooked on it too. It takes a while. In any case, what they saw at the end of all this counting wasWell, first of all, what they saw was this pattern that rat pups who got licked a lot as babies, when they grew up, they licked their babies a lot and the rat pups who didn't get licked a lot, when they grew up, they didn't lick their babies. Yeah, the social worker called and told me the mother had given birth. And I told Destiny I was thinking about this and asked her about it. SAM KEAN: Yeah, it was a very attractive theory to them in Moscow. Well, the DNA, the RNA, micro-RNAs, histone. Radiolab is on YouTube! Stretching got into the baby. Yes. [laughs] Can you say, "Never, ever?" Are you nine? Instead of dying at 40, I'd live to 70? Listen Jan 27, 2023 Birthstory A sperm, an egg, two wombs, four countries, and money. BARBARA HARRIS: Saying the mother had given birth to a baby girl, did we want her? JAD: So I guess you could say to yourself, "Seven out of eight of these kids did all right?". It's a guided audio tour through cities where Radiolab Ken Burns and others. JAD: Many years later, he and this woman. And The other day someone was whistling and I was like, "Stop it", and it just hit me, I was like, "Oh God, I was him", it's never appeared until now. Once a kid is born, their genetic fate is pretty much sealed. The critical part of this Is that all these changes wake up this little gang of proteins. CARL ZIMMER: But but theres like some hope here because JAD: Okay, all right, this is interesting. How old are your boys right now? ROBERT: I wonder. Well, that's the good news, but unfortunately there is some bad news here. BARBARA HARRIS: I was just pissed at what they have done to my children. I'm so proud and I have four years clean. 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