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By Radiolab
July 27, 2010
Malcolm Gladwell doesn’t like Gifted and Talented Education Programs. And he doesn’t believe that innate ability can fully explain superstar hockey players or billionaire software giants. In this podcast, we listen in on a conversation between Robert and Malcolm recorded at the 92nd St Y. Robert asks Malcolm if he’s a “genius denier,” and Malcolm asks Robert if he’s uncomfortable with the power of love, as they duke it out over questions of luck, talent, passion, and success.
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By Radiolab
July 19, 2010
Nick the Giant Lobster–whose escape from a supermarket was the subject of last week’s podcast–was apparently also known as Larry for a brief period. Toni (who flew Nick to Portland for his release into the Atlantic) packed Nick into this cooler for the trip. Toni’s brother Mark helped speed Nick on his way by decorating the cooler with help from his 11-year-old nephew Jason (who decided Larry was a more fitting name than Nick). Thanks Mark for sending us this photo!
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July 12, 2010
One place you absolutely, positively do not want to be if you’re a healthy, middle-aged American lobster: trapped in a suburban grocery store in western Pennsylvania. But that’s where this week’s podcast begins. It doesn’t stay there long, though. Bonnie Hazen and Toni Leone take us on an adventure that carries us by car, by plane, and by boat toward a deeper understanding of those mysterious protective feelings that sometimes sweep over us — well, some of us — when we encounter our fellow animals — um, okay, some of them. Trevor Corson, author of the bestselling The Secret Life of Lobsters, assists.
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Comment on Secrets of Success by Jeanne
The piece that's missing from this podcast that's a BIG part of the book is about how social class impacts all of the things discussed in this podcast. Bill Gates only got access to a fancy computer because of his social class. The same dedicated kid who lived on the north side in Minneapolis or the south side of Chicago or in Harlem, whose mom works two jobs to stay afloat, that kid never got a computer, nor had ever seen a computer except in science fiction television shows from the 1960s. There's real and verifiable social science that shows how social class is a much bigger influence on "success" than IQ or school or so many other factors you'd like to imagine. I also don't think Gladwell is saying "get rid of gifted and talented" programs. He is saying, look at the social science (rather than one individual child) and see what would happen if those "gifted and talented" kids got a regular class, and those who aren't so "gifted and talented" got extra attention. I think you'd be surprised (and I think we'd be seeing a lot more competition to get into those fancy colleges, and a lot less waste of human talent and human resources).more