RadioLab – Ice Man

A German couple was hiking in a frozen part of the Alps.

They decide to walk a couple hundred yards off the trail, and they find a frozen corpse in the ice.

This corpse is a lot more interesting than you think…

If you’re into visuals, here you go.

This is a RadioLab podcast. I LOVE these guys.

Radiolab is a show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and human experience.”

It’s created by Jad Abumrad, who got a MacArthur Foundation “Genius Grant” in 2011. That means they gave him $500,000 and told him to do whatever he wants with the money. Basically, MacArthur Foundation looks for amazing people and says, “You’re doing some incredible stuff, and we’re just curious what you’d do with a whole bunch of money.”

Even though Abumrad is doing this radio show about science, he didn’t go to college to be a science guy. He is a composer who got into the radio business. He does a fantastic job of putting the right sounds and music into these shows to make them especially compelling.

If you have curiosity, you will probably like what you find in RadioLab.