How far are we willing to go to stop that from happening? They eliminate over 250,000 goats. It would look almost the same but much shorter. Two females that sort of looked like George but weren't quite the same species and we put them with George to see if we could get him to breed, he never did wasn't interested. We don't think it was natural Gisella thinks it might have been the whalers. So they poked around in the areas where we got the one and I found a shell of a female, how had this female toward has died? We celebrated our 20th anniversary. Radiolab is supported by listeners like you. So something is happening. And he tells me, well, I'm nervous. So they did it. Just walk past the newspaper that says 72 hours left in the electoral campaign. So now they had a dilemma. Radiolab - Galapagos | The Best Podcasts, As Chosen By You This story unfolds on one of Galapagos most northern islands where they also had to get rid of some goats. I felt violent. What if on these islands, thousands of tourists arrive every day carrying fruits and chocolates and souvenirs jumping from island to island. IBM is using artificial intelligence technology to help businesses solve real world problems such as extending the life cycle of our world's critical infrastructure. Radiolab And so in 1994 we had what we called the tortoise summit in England and that was where we started the discussions about what are we going to do, experts came from all over the world linda says we want to get rid of the goats and many of them thought we were nuts and that it was impossible. He just kind of points. Can I get you to introduce yourself? WebThe Galapagos Islands are famous for inspiring Charles Darwin to form his Theory of Evolution based on the biodiversity he'd observed there. Description Description We did this amazing story about one of the worst american football games in history. Here we are, we're going to look at these incredible creators called los malos and as we're walking along the path, she's like, oh wait, look at this, She points just to the right of the path. The small tree finch goes something like that's a small tree finch. We only have a few days left to meet our financial goal. Thank you. But I go up to him and I yell at him, who's your candidate and he said, I am a candidate? Those arguments came up frequently to which carl would respond, Are we going to let tortoises go extinct. Yeah. One male tortoise, maybe 50 years old. I thought you were gonna say people, it was kind of a collaboration. This is radio lab and we are dedicating the entire hour to this little set of islands and to that question as the world is filling up with more and more and more people, Is it inevitable that even the most sacred pristine places on the planet will eventually get swallowed up? So that had acted as a barrier basically with goats on one side tortoises on the other. I wonder how many years these guys have been here for. Hey, radio lab listeners, Here's a message from our partner, IBM. So we we just sat in the forest and we would always quiz each other. In any case for about 40 years. He never really liked other tortoises much. WebRadiolab is a radio program broadcast on public radio stations in the United States, and a podcast available internationally, both produced by WNYC. Yeah. Penta is was a very special place. I'm walking through the town. Follow our show on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook @radiolab, and share your thoughts with us by emailing radiolab@wnyc.org. I'm actually walking down Charles Darwin Avenue just kinda getting the lay of the land when all of a sudden this line of cars comes around the corner honking, endless honking and waving flags, blue flags. Yeah, well I stood next to carl and watched him do it and carl took it one step further and he actually gave these females hormone implants, basically put them in the heat for an extended duration. Well they needed the goats because well yeah, there was a problem of people Because during the 90's these demonstrations started to happen, demonstrations of outrage, violent activity, constant conflict to explain. It's called Penta. It grabbed the goats dart, um, and then in a matter of minutes, snip snip did you do this? There's no place, no matter how remote we get, you can go to the North Pole, it's been affected by human activity. Radio Lab is supported by Shopify, a platform designed for anyone to sell anywhere giving entrepreneurs the resources once reserved for big businesses. Nothing worked until One day in July of 2008, George turns to the two female tortoises that he had been ignoring for years and he says, inexplicably he just suddenly decides to mate with both of them. But that's the only possible the first day. But a high school girls volleyball team is redefining what it means to play together. That's Shopify dot com slash radio lab. It's like yes look at this. And so there under the trees, you have these ponds with dozens of tortoise domes just rising out of the water. I mean that's what I thought. full access to Shopify his entire suite of features. Do you hear me? Our staff includes Simon Adler, jeremy bloom becca Bressler, Rachel, Cusick, w. Harry for tuna, david gable Maria paz gutierrez, Sindhu unison bend um matt Kielty anne McEwen Alex Neeson sarah, carry on a rescue it pas sarah sand back. My name is Gisele. So we, you know, we do this interview in english and I'm almost embarrassed that I wanted to talk to him because I think the dude is just gonna be so down and out exactly the opposite. What was that? So thank you very much for the interview. More often, I'm Kareem Yousef and at IBM we use artificial intelligence to solve real world. The new york public school system has been called the most racially segregated in the country. Initially it was carl's suggestion was goats, gregarious and like being in groups, they're herd animals. Hosted by Latif Nasser and What's that? This is the place where Darwin began to develop his theory of evolution and it's the place 100 70 year or maybe 280 years later where our producer tim howard landed wearing fishnets and a bad brains t shirt too fine to find a very different landscape than what Darwin saw. Week two weeks go by, you fire up the helicopter. Galapagos Yeah, it's P. H. I L. I can't spell out loud Phil or L. O. R. N. I. S. D. O. W. N. S. I. Filan is actually means bird loving. C studios. I said it was impossible. There is where evolution is very strong. On the one hand, the tortoises needed help. But it's an average. Either the whalers or the pirates. And so you end up flying around in an expensive helicopter, not fighting any goes Now the way we deal with that is an interesting one. Clearwater, FL, 33763. Mhm tortoises walking around. But then at the same time the tourism economy has been taking off and so all of these fishermen, they find that it's easier for them to actually survive by using their boats to take tourists around island island. But I mean in the bigger picture, you can make the argument that humans now affect every square meter of the earth. WebRadiolab live "Apocalyptical" In the fall of 2013, Radiolab toured North America with an ambitious multimedia live show called "Apocalyptical." But as far as I know, there are none for Radiolab. So-Called) Life Yes I do. And more importantly, can we? They throw a few extra tortoises overboard. School of Diagnostic Medical Sonography - Grady Health Yeah. The tortoise is a tortoise is a tortoise. External Link A discussion of the attacks on LaBeouf, Rnkk & Turner 's HEWILLNOTDIVIDE.US art project by far-right trolls. Radiolab took down this episode and issued an apology on August 12, 2017, following accusations that it appeared to condone the actions and ideologies of extremist groups. WebGalpagos - Podcast As our co-Hosts Lulu Miller and Latif Nasser are out this week, we are re-sharing the perfect episode to start the summer season! So if you can better automate that and leverage intelligence to make sense. Transcript And song samples made some recordings, brought all this stuff into the lab analyzed the genetic samples and had this terrible realization that the large tree finches now extinct, totally gone from the island. There's thousands of islands around the world that have goats on them. I really do because it has the potential to be incredibly anti basis from W. N. Y. C. Studios and the bell. What happened to the forest, goats, goats? But in the end there's just George that then shifted the focus on now what do we do? At first I didn't know what that was happening but turns out it was an election and I was just really blown away that this Continue this procession for like 15 minutes. So not only that, but according to linda, those goats, couple islands where they've been eliminated, fishermen have put them back. It rolls over this forest and it catches in the branches of the trees. Transcript The place that inspired Charles Darwin to create his theory of evolution, whose basic ingredients are lots of time, isolation and then constant change. You know, there's green mangroves, black lava flows and pink flamingos. James says a lot of tortoises. Now most of these plants are actually probably harmless and you know like you said Galapagos national park they spend tons of money, tons of time trying to keep invasives out. Sony says each time she go into the field the song sounded like they were starting to blur together. And he says he would go on these dives. I sold car, who's your candidate? So carl kept mulling this problem, what would it take to basically make you know, the perfect judas goat. It feeds on flowers and we think decomposing fruits, baby flies, they're not vegetarians, they will, you know, blood. Hey, it's latin. He was their counter protesting and he says that at one point they went after National Park buildings and they were attacking the ranger stations with molotov cocktails. But eventually nature is going to take over and they will evolve into into tortoises. I'm a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Cornell University said that at this meeting there was one guy who just couldn't take it all I remember is him just fuming. This kind of eradication program was far beyond anything that anyone had ever done anywhere in the world Because it turns out they weren't just doing this on Isabela Island? Shopify powers millions of entrepreneurs from first sale to full scale every 28 seconds. Transcript. We then went to a wolf volcano island next door and collected two females. That was actually the first thing I noticed. And what we'd do is we'd find a location as close as we could. You actually end up meeting a lot of people employed that way in Galapagos and he tells me politically speaking, he's an outsider and of course I'm wondering why he's standing there by himself waving a flag at this entire parade of people who don't support him at all.