I'm the founder and director of Project Prevention. FRANCES CHAMPAGNE: I mean, when you think of Kammerer, there was a report in science outlining a theory about how Kammerer's toads got these characteristics FRANCES CHAMPAGNE: that invoked these epigenetic inheritance and imprinted genes and it made it plausible. Were there any consequences? JAD: These are four kids from the same birth mother? And to believe anything else, that's naive. How much of you will echo into the future and how much of you won't? ], [ARCHIVAL Clip, News: This could mean sterilization, it could mean getting an IUD.]. Part 2 of our collaboration with Radiolab. BARBARA HARRIS: It was just no baby should have to come into the world like that. Covid has disrupted the most basic routines of our days and nights. I mean, I'm married to a Black man. Is it a big town? Thyroid hormones then get into the brain and they turn on certain neural chemical signals. LULU: Oh actually, real thing, before we go, Latif. And that advantage, whatever it was, because it starts with one individual, and then it gets passed onto the kids, and then onto their kids, it would take a long, long, long time to spread through the whole population because, generally, that's how evolution works. Heart disease. Once a kid is born, their genetic fate is pretty much sealed. And youre saying that part of the DNA is covered up? But I'm going to give them a basin of water. That's the stuff that makes you you. Its an idea thats been kicking around for me since my kids were born. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and human experience. My mom needed a girl and, boop! At the Vivarium, as the name suggests, they have live animals. Well, this is it! PAT: Even though Destiny's mom was doing all sorts of drugs during her pregnancy and the doctors told Barbara that Destiny was going to be mentally and physically delayed DESTINY HARRIS: Not feeling the way I'm supposed to feel. I went to the hospital and picked him up. You know, like if you're abused as a kid, you were more likely to abuse your kid, but still, you got to wonder. That's how we ended up with four of them. Hosted by Lulu Miller and Latif Nasser, Radiolab is a podcast known for using innovative sound design to ask deep questions and investigative journalism to get the answers. DESTINY HARRIS: As you can see, I like to talk. Were told. He was really one of the first grand theorists in biology. Watching this, I couldn't help but think that Destiny's very existence is probably the most interesting argument against what Barbara is doing. Radiolab is a radio program produced by WNYC, a public radio station in New York City, and broadcast on public radio stations in the United States. Filled with dozens of letters from women that she's paid. I mean, when you think of Kammerer, there was a report in science outlining a theory about how Kammerer's toads got these characteristics that invoked these epigenetic inheritance and imprinted genes and it made it plausible. ROBERT: I think what's weird here is that is that we started trying to make a difference in our children and now we're surprise attacked by our grandparents. PAT: The way she saw it, the state, the federal government, somebody BARBARA HARRIS: Should say, "You're not doing this. It's only the mechanisms are not so clear. They wanted to see basically the effects of starvation on multiple generations. And you have to bear in mind that at this point, it only had one hand left. BARBARA HARRIS: Sounds bizarre, but it's a solution. PAT: Barbara tried to get a law passed requiring just that. She was totally an oops kid. Radiolab is an outstanding radio show broadcast out of New York City on WNYC. You know? JAD: Stretching got into the baby. PAT: And she says oftentimes the women who want help have a really hard time finding it. She's somewhere, but it's not good from what we've heard. KARIN BORGKVIST LJUNG: Heart disease. Thats like, I mean, that seems like a thing that would be frightening. And she says, one day, this idea just came to her. Your grade will be based on how complete and correct your answers are. I know! DESTINY HARRIS: No, she was an oops kid. I got to say this is spooky. It's only the mechanisms are not so clear. You're now hearing Lamarck's name invoked these days because there are things beyond genes that we pass down to our children. People can't just will themselves into a more perfect form. Is that a genetic hatred of whistling that I just had? PEJK MALINOVSKI: He was an idiot. I'm so proud and I have four years clean. That is a bad way to start a kid's life but that's just the beginning of the kid's life. And Destiny says she doesn't really care DESTINY HARRIS: I got these genes from somewhere, but I kind of feel like she was a surrogate, like she carried me for my real mom. Sample Page; ; He actually named his daughter Lacerta, which is a genus of lizard. MICHAEL MEANEY: What happens when moms lick their pups is that the pup beccomes aroused. BARBARA HARRIS: And I knew that the only way I was going to get a daughter was if I went and became a foster parent and asked for one. SAM KEAN: Very easily. PAT: That's really impressive. Isaiah's in college and Taylor and Brandon, I met them at Barbara's house and they seemed to be fine. ], You get them $200 each, which they can spend on crack. DESTINY HARRIS: Kick it to him. SAM KEAN: This was a really, really big effect. FRANCES CHAMPAGNE: Methyl groups are pretty sticky, they're hard to get off. Not usually because it upsets people and I'm Canadian. ], Like you said, when you were in your addiction like she is], I didn't say I'm God. In my naive mind, I didn't have a clue what a big deal this was. JAD: Wait, when you say they can choose to be sterilized, you mean permanent? JAD: Most toads, he says, love to stay in the water. SAM KEAN: And he would basically turn the heat way, way up in these aquariums until they had to go underwater. Actually, the idea itself is pretty old. And right now, I'm student teaching. You're slippery, partner's slippery. More brain cells? This is Radiolab. I guess retard. I'm not saying that these women are dogs but they're not acting any more responsible than a dog in heat. 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. Radiolab Society & Culture Science Latest Transcripts What Up Holmes? ", And I called my husband again at work and said, "They want to know if we want to take the baby." IMDb is the world's most popular and authoritative source for movie, TV and celebrity content. Kalia came too. That's the stuff that makes you you. ROBERT: And there were from the beginning. Yeah. Well, yep, that is so true. They like to hang out in the water and the females like to lay eggs in the water. [chuckles]. ROBERT: That's Sam Kean again. Inheritance, what you can move on to the next generation and what you can't. She'll be two in January. The results are obvious to you. 01:04:34 - Once a kid is born, their genetic fate is pretty much sealed. I mean, it's pretty common but like, here's a for instance, my dad from my entire life had this thing where if someone was whistling, he would. I'm the founder and director of Project Prevention. Go to him. SAM KEAN: Because theyre reaching for the tops of trees. It would be wrong to think that they represent all women who use drugs while they're pregnant. Well, the DNA, the RNA, micro-RNAs, histone. They lived longer lives, something like 30 years on average. ROBERT: And this idea won him a lot of fans, including, not surprisingly, the Soviets. JAD: And these things are called, apparently, methyl groups. So imagine the DNA in that brain cell. Once a kid is born, their genetic fate is pretty much sealed. So yeah, she keeps me busy. Here, Kammerer's was saying, "You can do this even on a physical level.". [laughs[ Exactly. FRANCES CHAMPAGNE: You would be licking them quite a lot. CARL ZIMMER: He was born in 1880 in Vienna, Jewish family. What do I know? LYNN PALTROW: Well, her explanation is that these women are having, in her terms, litters of damaged babies and society forever will be responsible for them. Maybe they'd try and jump back out, but it was still hot so they'd have to jump back in. They have found very similar effects for smoking, for instance. BARBARA HARRIS: After I've gotten to know so many of the women. This great. And Destiny was in the other room, sleeping or something, I'm not sure. 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?". And when I found out the bill didn't pass, I just thought, "I have to come up with something else. JAD: These were kids that didn't end up with Barbara? JAD: Well, its offensive. JAD: What happens, it'll get stuck to one little part of the DNA and now that little bit of DNA FRANCES CHAMPAGNE: Is very difficult to get at. Yeah. This week The Science Show introduces Radiolab from WNYC in New York City. And, you know, there was kind of antisemitism growing at this time, so he thought that someone had framed him, and six weeks after Nobel published his results in Nature, Kammerer sent a letter to Moscow. Were just talking about toad, I thought. This is the verkalix church parish record. like they could be whistling six tables over in a restaurant and he would turn around and be like, "Stop that," it was like it was scraping his very nerves. Since birth. Who now works at Columbia University. With NPR's Rough Translation. Catch up with new episodes and hear classics from our archive. But I take it that we have more control over our destinies and our kids' destinies than we would've thought. SAM KEAN: Really slowly, gradually, achingly slowly. a rat mother licking her baby can have such a profound effect, basically change the expression of the genes in the baby, well that's hopeful. A lot of times that's not the case. Do you know anything about the other four? I had a little basketball for her. My home village was 10 miles North of polar circle. JAD: His reputation was that he could get inside the mind of, say, a salamander and know just what it wanted to eat. You can't change your DNA. "To Whom It May Concern, I have been doing very good. ", PAT: In other words, "Could I pay women who have drug problems to stop having babies?". CARL ZIMMER: He actually named his daughter Lacerta, which is a genus of lizard. I wonder. In pictures, he has that, you know, that crazy Einstein fuzzy hair thing. And eventually, over the millenia, what youd get, is a creature with a very long neck. SAM KEAN: You feel kind of hemmed in by what your grandfather did? KARIN BORGKVIST LJUNG: Yes, he was retarded. You picked him up right from the hospital? And then that baby would stretch and stretch, and it would give a little more stretching to its baby. I agree with Lynn, that this program does perpetuate a stereotype. So. JAD: Still, that's a burden that, he's carrying a big burden there. It was something they acquired during their lifetime. OLOV BYGREN: A lot of diagnoses actually. PEJK MALINOVSKI: It says "registrera", register. ROBERT: You cant say that. He was miserable to look at. The right hand had been cut off for microscopic slides. But, this hour were gonna fight this sort of sad sack feeling of inevitability and impotence. Copyright 2022 New York Public Radio. And in one day, we can imagine, he gets curious. Because here's the thing, the churches up in verkalix kept incredibly detailed records. Sincerely, Jennifer.". [chuckles]. CARL ZIMMER: She is nine. You're finishing college, right? She asked my opinion and that's what I'm giving. In any case, these books tell you when each of these folks died, how they died. Meet Jeremiah! That, in a sort of ass backward way was Michael's question. ROBERT: But the story he told us begins around 25 years ago. Last I heard she was living on the streets in LA. JAD: I tell you what I'm going to do though. That is impossible, so far as we know, but there seems to be this layer on top of the genes. His example with humans was a blacksmith. They have found very similar effects for smoking, for instance. 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. LULU: A really good radiolab about this called Inheritance. That's a lot of people. But were getting ahead of ourselves here. The connection between trees Normally trees from different species are competitors. And since Kammerer kept the heat up, toads basically had to stay there, in this watery place that they had not evolved for. Suddenly you're marked. I want her to be able to look back on her life one day, maybe when she's getting interviewed, I don't know, and be able to say that, "Yes, my mom was there for me 100% without a doubt." Nice, cool water. It says, "Race of Supermen." It goes back to the 1800s. I like you, I get the sense that there's a lot of warmth in you. Professional authors can write an essay in 3 hours, if there is a certain volume, but it must be borne in mind that with such a service the price will be the highest. I just got custody of my eight-year-old son. There was a newspaper called The Daily Express and they have these headlines that come out. Move on to the next cage, yes, no? Frankly, this makes being 9, 10, 11, 12 like a rather crucial. It's just a mind crushing tedium. "To Whom It May Concern, I have been doing very good. BARBARA HARRIS: "She's born and tested positive for PCP crack and heroin." JAD: I dont know. But then, a few years would pass, crops would bounce back. Is that what you're saying? This was a really radical place at the time because you have to remember that people studying animals up till now, they were basically studying preserved specimens, and so on. So, somehow, by some chemical mechanism, starving grandpa, back when he was about 9 to 12 years old, turned out to be a good thing. But according to Kammerer, shortly after these toads got into the water, they did begin to evolve fast. Destiny says one day, she and her mom were in the car, and her mom said She said, "I don't know, you know, maybe they'll grow bigger? You know, just take a little peek for themselves, and every time Kammerer said no, they were his specimens. You're finishing college, right? These were kids that didn't end up with Barbara? And looking at these swings in fortune, Olov realized what he had here was Because with all this data, he and his team could follow families forward in time, through the generations. Just a little. PAT: So by now it's 1994, and Barbara is thinking PAT: You know? The neural chemical signal that gets activated during licking, is serotonin. That doesn't matter. Let me say this again. I feel that they should all be sterilized. Researchers have found evidence of structural. We ended up talking to the guy who did the work. 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