Sound and Science: Radiolab's Jad Abumrad (taped) Live on Big Think — March 15, 2012

Sound and Science: Radiolab’s Jad Abumrad (taped) Live on Big Think

“I think of my job as ‘leading people to those moments of awe – that brain fever that overtakes you when you encounter a new idea'”.

In our livestream interview with Jad Abumrad on 3/12, he answered several reader questions about his work as creator and producer of WNYC’s Radiolab, a groundbreaking radio show that uses sound and narrative to explore complex mathematical and scientific questions. We present the recorded livestream here, in its entirety.

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